Leavitt & Co.: Catalogue of the American library of the late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. Part I, 1879yr,

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Auction Date: March 10, 1879 - March 10, 1879

Page Size: 2714 items in 28 pages

Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
Windham. ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of New-York, relative to their obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward from Connecticut River, which ... had been patented by ... the Government of New-Hampshire,	Hartford	[1774]	USD -	65.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	An Animadversory Address to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont; with Remarks on a Proclamation, under the Hand of his Excellency George Clinton, Esq; Governor of the State of New York	Hartford	1778	USD -	26.00
	A Public Defence of the right of the New-Hampshire Grants (so called) On both sides Connecticut-River, to associate together, and form themselves into an INDEPENDENT STATE. Containing Remarks on sundry paragraphs of Letters from the President of th	Dresden	1779	USD -	100.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Vindication of the Opposition of the Inhabitants of Vermont to the Government of New-York, and of their Right to Form an Independent State. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Impartial World	[Dresden]	1779	USD -	105.00
ALLEN (Ethan) and FAY (JONAS)	A Concise Refutation of the Claims of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay, to the Territory of Vermont; &c. Published by order of the Governor and Council of Vermont, Bennington, Jan. 1, 1780	Hartford	[1780]	USD -	50.00
BRADLEY (STEPHEN R.)	Vermont's Appeal to the Candid and Impartial World. Containing a fair Stating of the Claims of Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, and New-York, The Right of the State of Vermont to Independence, &c.	Hartford	[1780]	USD -	40.00
[ALLEN (ETHAN)]	The Present State of the Controversy between the States of New-York and New-Hampshire on the one part, and the State of Vermont on the other	Hartford	1782	USD -	49.00
	A Copy of a Remonstrance of the Council of the State of Vermont, Against the Resolutions of Congress of the 5th of December last, which interfere with their internal Police	Hartford	1783	USD -	40.00
	CONSTITUTION of the State of Vermont, as established by the General Convention at Windsor, July 2d, 1777, and continued by adjournment to December 25, 1777	Hartford	n. d. [1778]	USD -	2.00
	ACTS AND LAWS passed by the General Assembly of the Representatives of the State of Vermont, at their Session at Bennington. Feb. 11, 1779. To which is prefixed, the Constitution of the State. Wants title and six last leaves, and the first five	[Dresden]	1779	USD -	20.00
	Revised Laws of the State of Vermont, passed .. at the Sessions in June and October, 1782	n. p.	n. d.	USD -	33.00
	STATUTES of the State of Vermont. Passed by the Legislature in February and March, 1787	Windsor	1787	USD -	15.00
	Acts and Laws passed .. Oct., 1789	[Windsor]	[1889]	USD -	4.00
	ACTS AND LAWS passed at the several sessions, from 1801 to 1858, inclusive. (Two editions of the Laws of 1802; two copies each of 1807 and 1808.)	v. p.	1801--1858	USD -	47.25
	Journals of the General Assembly of Vermont, 1784, 1785, 1786, (impft., wants after p. 124), 1790, 1791 (wants first two leaves, last leaf imperfect), 1793, 1795.	Windsor	1783--1795	USD -	29.75
	Journals of the General Assembly of Vermont, 1810, 1811, 1813--1835.	v. p.	1810--1858	USD -	7.30
CONSTITUTION	Convention, at Montpelier, June, 1828, [to consider amendments to the Constitution.] Journal	Royalton	[1828]	USD -	0.50
CONSTITUTION	Convention, at Montpelier, 1836. Journal; with the Constitution, and the Amendments adopted by the Convention.	St. Albans	1836	USD -	1.00
CONSTITUTION	Convention of 1850. Journal	Burlington	1850	USD -	1.00
SLADE (WM.) <i>ed.</i>	State Papers: being a Collection of Documents connected with the assumption and establishment of Government by the People of Vermont	Middlebury	1823	USD -	1.75
CHIPMAN (N.)	Reports of Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Vermont, 1789--91, and Dissertations on the Common Law, etc.	Rutland	1793	USD -	4.50
ADAMS (C. B.)	First, Second, Third, and Fourth Annual Reports on the Geology of the State of Vermont	Burlington	1845--1848	USD -	2.25
ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity, from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, Sept. 25, 1775, to the time of his Exchange, May 6, 1778; containing his Voyages and Travels, etc. .... Interspersed with some Political	Phila., Printed; Boston	1779	USD -	22.50
ALLEN (ETHAN)	The same edition.			USD -	20.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity, etc.	Phila., printed; Repr. Boston	1779	USD -	3.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity, etc.	Newbury	1780	USD -	9.25
ALLEN (ETHAN)	The same. To which are now added a considerable number of Explanatory and Occasional Notes, together with an Index, etc.	Walpole	1807	USD -	2.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity, etc.	Albany	1814	USD -	1.75
ALLEN (ETHAN)	Reason the only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion	Bennington	1784	USD -	15.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	Reason the only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion	Bennington	1784	USD -	8.00
ALLEN (ETHAN)	Oracles of Reason, As formed by the Deists are Husks for Deistical and Heathen Swine, etc. A concise, but plain Answer to Gen. Allen's Oracles of Reason. By Common Sense.	Litchfield	n. d.	USD -	9.50
ALLEN (IRA)	The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont	London	1798	USD -	8.00
ALLEN (IRA)	Narrative of the Transactions relative to the Capture of the Ship Olive Branch	n. p.	1804	USD -	2.25
ALLEN (IRA)	Concise Summary of the Second Volume of the Olive Branch ... with Letters and Memorials	Philadelphia	1807	USD -	0.50
EASTMAN (F. S.)	History of Vermont for the use of schools	Brattleboro'	1828	USD -	1.38
ELECTION SERMONS. Powers (Peter)	A Sermon preached before the General Assembly of the State of Vermont on the day of their FIRST ELECTION, March 12, 1778, at Windsor	Newbury-Port	1778	USD -	9.75
	General Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers.	v. p.	1813--1862	USD -	2.55
GRAHAM (John A.)	A Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont	London	1797	USD -	2.75
HALL (B. H.)	History of Eastern Vermont, from its earliest Settlement to the Close of the 18th Century.	Albany	1865	USD -	7.00
HALL (FRED.)	Catalogue of Minerals found in the State of Vermont, and the adjacent States, etc.	Hartford	1824	USD -	1.25
HASWELL (ANTHONY)	Memoirs and Adventures of Captain Matthew Phelps; formerly of Harwington in Connecticut, now resident in Newhaven, Vt. Particularly in two Voyages from Connecticut to the River Mississippi, 1773--80	Bennington, Vt.	1802	USD -	11.50
HOSKINS (N.)	A History of the State of Vermont, to the close of the year 1830	Vergennes	1831	USD -	3.00
HUBBELL <i>and</i> FLETCHER	Narrative of the Sufferings of SETH HUBBELL and Family in his beginning a Settlement in the Town of Wolcott, Vt.	Danville, Vt.	1826	USD -	5.00
	Literary and Philosophical Repertory.	Middlebury, Vt.	1812--1817	USD -	6.00
	Literary and Philosophical Repertory.		1812--1817	USD -	5.50
Middlebury College	Davis's Inaugural Oration, 1810; Olds's Statement as to his appt. as Prof. of Chemistry, 1818; Bates's Inaug. Oration as Pres., 1818, and Semi-Cent'l Address, 1850; Lawrence's Address on behalf of the college	Boston	1851	USD -	3.00
Middlebury College	Addresses and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Celebration of Middlebury College, Aug. 20--22, 1850	Middlebury	1850	USD -	0.60
Montpelier. Thompson (D. P.)	History of the Town, from 1781 to 1860	Montpelier	1860	USD -	1.00
	Monthly Miscellany or Vermont Magazine.	Bennington	1794	USD -	3.00
THOMPSON (ZADOCK)	A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont	Montpelier	1824	USD -	1.50
THOMPSON (ZADOCK)	History of the State of Vermont, to the close of the year 1832	Burlington	1833	USD -	0.75
THOMPSON (ZADOCK)	History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical, in Three Parts	Burlington	1842	USD -	2.00
THOMPSON (ZADOCK)	Appendix to the History of Vermont	Burlington	1853	USD -	1.00
	Vermont Almanac, by H. Doton, 1847, 1848, 1850, 1852.	Woodstock		USD -	0.80
	Vermont Directory, by W. W. Atwater, 1855, 1856	Burlington		USD -	0.40
	Vermont Register and Almanac, for the Year 1795 (impft.). Vermont Register and Almanac, 1803--1806, 1808 (impft.), 1809--1822	Middlebury and Burlington	1795--1858	USD -	37.50
WILLIAMS (SAMUEL)	Natural and Civil History of Vermont	Walpole, N. H.	1794	USD -	1.25
WILLIAMS (SAMUEL)	The same.	Burlington	1809	USD -	4.00
Windsor. <i>Early printing</i>	Remmele (John) The Design and Nature of Atonement. Three Sermons	Windsor	1786	USD -	1.25
Windsor. REYNOLDS (J.)	Recollections of Windsor [State] Prison	Boston	1834	USD -	0.50
PAMPHLETS (Local History.) Bennington	Avery's Narrative of church difficulties		1783	USD -	7.20
PAMPHLETS (Historical) [Lydius (J. H.)?]	Reflections on the N. H. Land Grants Dispute	New Haven	1764	USD -	6.30
PAMPHLETS (Miscellaneous)	Act for regulating the Militia		1793	USD -	2.55
PAMPHLETS (Miscellaneous)	B. H. Hall's Bibliography of Vermont		1860	USD -	7.20
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1819	Debates and other Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates assembled at Portland, Oct. 11th--29th, for forming a Constitution. To which is prefixed the Constitution. By J. Perley.	Portland	1820	USD -	1.00
FREEMAN (SAMUEL)	The Town Officer	Portland	1791	USD -	0.50
FREEMAN (SAMUEL)	The same.	Boston	1794	USD -	0.25
FREEMAN (SAMUEL)	The Probate Auxiliary	Portland	1793	USD -	0.25
FREEMAN (SAMUEL)	American Clerk's Magazine.	Boston	1794	USD -	0.25
FREEMAN (SAMUEL)	The same.	Boston	1795	USD -	0.25
General Conference	Minutes, 1837, 1842--1863.	Portland, and Bangor	1837--1863	USD -	3.15
GREENLEAF (JONA.)	Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of Maine, from the Earliest Settlement to the present time	Portsmouth, N. H.	1821	USD -	2.50
GREENLEAF (MOSES)	A Statistical View of the District of Maine	Boston	1816	USD -	0.63
GREENLEAF (MOSES)	A Survey of the State of Maine	Portland	1829	USD -	1.12
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY	Documents relating to the history of the North-Eastern Boundary	Boston	1828	USD -	1.00
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY. [Hale (N.)]	The North-Eastern Boundary of the United States.	Boston	1832	USD -	0.63
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY. Gallatin (A.)	Right of the United States to the North-Eastern Boundary claimed by them.	New York	1840	USD -	1.00
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY	Documents relating to, 1826.---Notes on	Quebec	1830	USD -	0.60
PLYMOUTH COMPANY, and Kennebec Purchase	Defence of the Remarks of the Plymouth Company on the Plan published by the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick, being a Reply to their Answer, etc.	Boston	1753	USD -	16.00
POPHAM COLONY (The)	A Discussion of its Historical Claims, with a Bibliography of the Subject [by W. F. Poole]	Boston	1866	USD -	0.50
POPHAM COLONY (The)	A Discussion, etc.			USD -	0.25
STEVENS (BENJ.)	A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. Sir William Pepperrell, Bart ... Who died at his Seat in Kittery, July 6th, 1759	Boston	1759	USD -	1.38
SULLIVAN (J.)	History of the District of Maine	Boston	1795	USD -	5.00
VINTON (J. A.)	Thomas Gyles and his Neighbors, 1669--1689: or the Settlement of the Lower Kennebec. First Printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register	Boston	1867	USD -	0.25
WHIPPLE (J.)	History of Acadie, Penobscot Bay and River, with a Geographical and Statistical View of the District of Maine	Bangor	1816	USD -	4.00
WILLIAMSON (W. D.)	The History of the State of Maine, from its first Discovery, 1602, to the Separation, 1820, inclusive.	Hallowell	1832	USD -	7.00
WILLIAMSON (W. D.)	The same.	Hallowell	1832	USD -	8.50
Bangor	Historical Sketch and Catalogue of the 1st Congr. Church.	Bangor	1856	USD -	5.00
Bangor	Maine Monthly Magazine; edited by C. Gilman	Bangor	1837	USD -	2.00
Belfast. White (Wm.)	History of Belfast, with introductory remarks on Acadia.	Belfast	1827	USD -	3.75
Berwick. Hall (Theoph.) <i>of Wallingford, Conn.</i>	Sermon at the Ordination of Matthew Merriam, Berwick, Sept. 25, 1765	Portsmouth, [N. H.]	1766	USD -	1.75
Brunswick Proprietors	A Defence of the Remarks of the Plymouth Company, on the Plan and Extracts of Deeds published by the Proprietors .. of Brunswick	Boston	1753	USD -	3.00
Cumberland. Weston (I.)	History of the Congregational Church and Society.	Portland	1861	USD -	0.60
Falmouth. Smith (<i>Rev.</i> Thomas)	Extracts from his Journals, 1720 to 1788, with a variety of other matters, edited by S. Freeman	Portland	1821	USD -	4.00
Gardiner. Hanson (J. W.)	History of Gardiner, Pittston and West Gardiner, with a Sketch of the Kennebec Indians, and New Plymouth Purchase	Gardiner	1852	USD -	1.00
Kennebunk Port. Bradbury (C.)	History of Kennebunk Port from its Discovery in 1602	Kennebunk	1837	USD -	5.25
Norridgewock. Allen (W.)	The History of Norridgewock, comprising Memorials of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, Jesuit Missionaries, etc.	Norridgewock	1849	USD -	3.50
Norridgewock and Canaan. Hanson (J. W.)	History of the old towns, Norridgewock and Canaan, including a Sketch of the Abnakis Indians.	Boston	1849	USD -	6.00
Oxford County. Stone (T. M.)	Sketches of Oxford County	Portland	1830	USD -	5.50
Pemaquid	Papers relating to Pemaquid and parts adjacent in the present State of Maine, when under the Colony of New-York, Compiled from Official Records, by F. B. Hough	Albany	1856	USD -	1.00

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Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

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