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
EARTHQUAKES. PRINCE (T.)	Earthquakes the work of God, and Tokens of his just Displeasure. A Discourse on that subject.	Boston	1755	USD -	7.50
EARTHQUAKES. DANFORTH (JOHN)	Sermon occasioned by the late great Earthquake... Delivered at a Fast in Dorchester, Nov. 7, 1727	Boston	1728	USD -	1.50
EARTHQUAKES	An ESSAY on the Agitations of the Sea, and other Remarkables attending the Earthquakes of 1755.	Boston	1761	USD -	1.50
EARTHQUAKES. FOXCROFT (THOMAS)	The Voice of the Lord from the Deep Places of the Earth. A Sermon at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, before the General Court, Nov. 23, 1727, three weeks after the Earthquake	Boston	1727	USD -	1.50
EARTHQUAKES. GOOKIN (NATH'L)	Three Sermons preached in Hampton, N. H., Oct. 29, and Nov. 16, 1727, to which is added an Appendix, giving some Account of the Earthquake, as it was in Hampton, etc.	Boston	1728	USD -	2.75
EARTHQUAKES	LINES made after THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE, In 1755, which shook North and South America, with great destruction in Cales, in Lisbon, and most of the adjacent kingdoms.	n. p. [Boston?]	[1755]	USD -	10.00
EARTHQUAKES. PAINE (THOMAS)	The Doctrine of Earthquakes; two Sermons, at a particular Fast in Weymouth, Nov. 3, 1727, the Friday after the Earthquake	Boston	1728	USD -	8.00
EARTHQUAKES	SERMONS on the Earthquake of 1727. COLMAN (B.) Four Sermons, in Boston	Boston	1727--1730	USD -	10.00
EARTHQUAKES. WILLIAMS (WM.)	Divine Warnings To be received with Faith and Fear... A Discourse in Weston [Mass.] on the publick Fast, Dec. 21, 1727, on occasion of the terrible Earthquake, Oct. 29, 30; added, a Discourse on Prov. 2. 1--6	Boston	1728	USD -	3.50
FELT (Jos. B.)	The Customs of New England	Boston	1853	USD -	5.50
Eliot (John) <i>D.D.</i>	Biographical Dictionary of New England	Salem	1809	USD -	11.50
Eliot (John) <i>D.D.</i>	The Same	Salem	1809	USD -	5.50
	Examination of the Pretensions of New England to Commercial Pre-eminence	Phila.	1814	USD -	0.50
FOXCROFT (THOMAS)	Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise and Primitive State of New-England. With a special reference to the Old or first gather'd Church in Boston. A [Century] Sermon, Aug. 23, 1730	Boston	1730	USD -	3.00
	GOOD NEWS FROM NEVV ENGLAND: with An exact relation of the first planting that Countrey;...Together with a briefe, but true discovery of their Order both in Church and Common-wealth ... With The names of the severall Towns and who be Preachers to them	London	1648	USD -	135.00
	[Goodrich's] Traveller's Guide in New England	New York	1823	USD -	3.50
GORGES (FERDINANDO)	America Painted to the Life, etc.	London	1659	USD -	225.00
GORGES (<i>Sir</i> F.)	A Briefe Narration of the Originall Undertakings of the Advancement of Plantations into the parts of America. Especially, shewing the beginning, progress and continuance of that of New-England. London, 1658.	[Repr. Boston]	[1837]	USD -	0.50
HAVEN (S. F.)	History of Grants under the Great Council for New England: a Lecture, before the Lowell Institute, Jan. 15, 1869	Boston	1869	USD -	0.50
HAWES (JOEL)	A Tribute to the Memory of the Pilgrims, and a Vindication of the Congregational Churches of New England	Hartford	1830	USD -	2.00
HIGGINSON (FRANCIS)	New-Englands Plantation. Or, A Short and Trve Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Countrey. Written by Mr. Higgeson a reuerend Diuine now there resident ... Added, a Letter, sent by Mr. Graues.	London	1630	USD -	55.00
HUBBARD (W.)	A General History of New England, from the Discovery to 1680		1815	USD -	2.00
[JOHNSON (EDWARD)]	A History of New-England. From the English planting in the yeere 1628, untill the yeere 1652.	London	1654	USD -	150.00
[Johnson (Edward)]	A History of New-England.	London	1654	USD -	80.00
JOSSELYN (JOHN)	New England's Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, etc. ..	London	1672	USD -	37.50
JOSSELYN (J.)	New-Englands Rarities Discovered, ..	London	1675	USD -	27.00
JOSSELYN (J.)	New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants, etc., with Introduction and Notes by Edw. Tuckerman, M.A.	Boston	1865	USD -	2.50
JOSSELYN (J.)	Account of Two Voyages to New England, 1638, 1663; With Introduction and Notes by Edw. Tuckerman	Boston	1865	USD -	2.50
KEITH (GEORGE)	The Presbyterian and Independent Visible Churches in New-England And else-where, Brought to the Test, and examined according to the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures, etc., and found to be No True Church of Christ. ... With A Call and Warning from th	Philadelphia	1689	USD -	55.00
KNIGHT, (<i>Madam</i> [Sarah])	Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704	New York	1825	USD -	8.00
KNIGHT (<i>Madam</i> Sarah)	The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York, in the Year 1704, kept by Madam Knight	Albany	1865	USD -	1.50
LECHFORD, (THOMAS)	Plain Dealing: Or, Nevves from New-England .. A short View of New-England's present Government, both Ecclesiasticall and Civil, etc.	London	1642	USD -	60.00
LECHFORD (T.)	Plain Dealing, or News from New England; with an Introduction and Notes by J. H. Trumbull	Boston	1867	USD -	2.75
Lilly (Lambert) <i>pseudon.</i>	History of New England	Boston	1831	USD -	0.60
	MITCHELL'S MAP of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont	Phila.	1831	USD -	0.05
MATHER (COTTON)	The Present State of New-England. Considered in a Discourse On the Necessities and Advantages of a Public Spirit In every Man; Especially, At such a time as this. Made at the Lecture in Boston, 20. d. 1. m. 1690. Upon the News of an Invasion by bloody Ind	Boston	1690	USD -	19.00
	MODEST ENQUIRY (A) into the Grounds and Occasions of a Late Pamphlet, intituled a Memorial of the Present Deplorable State of New-England. By a Disinterested Hand.	London	1707	USD -	35.00
MORSE (J.) and PARISH (E.)	Compendious History of New England;	Newburyport	1809	USD -	1.50
MORTON (NATHANIEL)	New-England's Memorial: or, A brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America: With special Reference to the first Colony thereof, Called New-Plimouth, ...	Boston	1721	USD -	21.00
MORTON (N.)	New-England's Memorial.	Boston	1721	USD -	8.00
MORTON (N.)	New England's Memorial:	Boston	1721	USD -	6.00
MORTON (N.)	New-England's Memorial: or, A brief Relation of the most memorable and remarkable Passages of the Providence of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England, in America, etc.	Newport	1772	USD -	21.00
MORTON (N.)	New-England's Memorial	Newport	1772	USD -	2.75
MORTON (N.)	The New-England's Memorial: or, A Brief Relation, etc.	Plymouth	1826	USD -	4.00
MORTON (N.)	New England's Memorial; 5th edition, with large additions in marginal notes, and an Appendix, by John Davis	Boston	1826	USD -	4.00
MORTON (THOMAS)	New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in three Bookes ... Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inne gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the Country	Amsterdam	1637	USD -	180.00
MORTON (THOMAS)	New English Canaan or New Canaan containing an Abstract of New England, etc.	Amsterdam	1637	USD -	37.50
	NARRATIVE (A) of the Miseries of New-England, by reason of an Arbitrary Government Erected there, [Part X. of A Sixth Collection of Papers Relating to the Present Juncture of Affairs in England,]	London	1689	USD -	1.00
	NARRATIVE (A) of the Miseries of New-England, by reason of An Arbitrary Government Erected there. Printed in the Tyranic Reign of Sir Edmund Andross	Reprinted, Boston	1775	USD -	1.00
NEAL (D.)	History of New England,...to the year, 1700	London	1720	USD -	6.00
NEAL (D.)	History of New England.	London	1747	USD -	5.00
	NEW-ENGLAND'S FACTION DISCOVERED; or, A Brief and True Account of their Persecution of the Church of England; the Beginning and Progress of the War with the Indians; and other late Proceedings there, in a Letter from a Gentleman of that Country, to a Pers	London	1690	USD -	50.00
	NEW ENGLAND'S FIRST FRUITS; in respect, First of the Conversion of some, Conviction of divers, Preparation of sundry, of the Indians. 2. Of the progresse of Learning, in the Colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets [sic] Bay. With Divers other Speciall	London	1643	USD -	21.00
	NEW ENGLAND SCENES, or Events which have taken place since the first settlement of New England, illustrated by engravings.	New Haven	1833	USD -	0.50
	NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY ADDRESSES, etc.---Remarks on Charges against the Religion and Morals of People of Boston by Rev. G. Spring, D. D. in a Sermon before the N. E. Society of New York, Dec. 22, 1820.	New York	1820	USD -	10.50
PALFREY (John G.)	History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty	Boston	1865	USD -	12.00
PALFREY (J. G.)	History of New England	Boston	1859--1860	USD -	2.00
[PALMER (JOHN)][PALMER (JOHN)]	THE PRESENT STATE OF NEW ENGLAND Impartially Considered, In a Letter to the Clergy THE PRESENT STATE OF NEW ENGLAND Impartially Considered, In a Letter to the Clergy	n. p., [Philadelphia]	n. d., [1689]	USD -	52.50
PALMER (JOHN)PALMER (JOHN)	An Impartial Account of the State of New England: or, the Late Government there, Vindicated. In Answer to the Declaration which the Faction set forth, when they Overturned that Government. With a Relation of the Horrible Usage they treated the Governour w	London	1690	USD -	15.00
PRINCE (THOMAS)	A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals	Boston	1736	USD -	20.00
PRINCE (THOMAS)	A Chronological History of New-England In the Form of Annals, etc.	Boston	1736, [1755]	USD -	42.00
PRINCE (T.)	A Chronological History of New England in the form of Annals	Boston	1826	USD -	4.50
PRINCE (T.)	A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals.	Boston	1736	USD -	4.00
PRINCE (T.)	The same	Boston	1736	USD -	2.75
REVOLUTION (The)	IN NEW ENGLAND Justified, and the People there Vindicated from the Aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer, etc. [By INCREASE MATHER?] Printed, 1691;	Repr. Boston	1773	USD -	3.00
ROBBINS (T.)	Historical View of the First Planters of New England	Hartford	1815	USD -	2.00
	SAD AND DREADFUL NEWS from New-England, being A True Relation of the Barbarous Cruelty lately committed by the Spaniards upon the English. n. t. p.	London	1684	USD -	50.00
SANFORD (ENOCH)	Sketch of the Pilgrims who founded the Church of Christ in New England	Boston	1831	USD -	1.50
SILLIMAN (B.)	Tour from Hartford to Quebec	New Haven	1820	USD -	3.25
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	A Description of New England: or The Observations, and discoueries, of Captain Iohn Smith (Admirall of that Country) in the North of America, in the year of our Lord 1614, etc.	London	1616	USD -	110.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	A Description of New England.	London	1616	USD -	100.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> John)	Description of New England, in the year of our Lord 1614	[Repr.] Boston	1865	USD -	4.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	Viertzehende Schiffart, oder Grundliche vnd wahrhaffte Beschreibung dess Neuwen Engellandts, einer Landschafft in Nordt Indien, eines Theils in America, vnter dem Capitein Johann Schmidt... Durch einen Liebhaber der Historien ausz dem Englischen..versetzt	Franckfurt am Mayn	1617	USD -	5.00
SMITH (JOHN)	New Englands Trials. Declaring the successe of 80 Ships employed thither within these eight yeares; and the benefit of that Countrey by Sea and Land. ....	London	1622	USD -	110.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	The General Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer-Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning Ano: 1584. to this present 1624. With the Proceedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents	London	1624	USD -	1,800.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: .. from their first beginning Ano: 1584. to this present 1626, etc.	London	1632	USD -	230.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	Advertisements for the unexperienced Planters of New England, or any where, etc. London, 1631.	[Repr.] Boston	1865	USD -	2.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	A Sea Grammar, With The Plaine Exposition of Smiths Accidence for young Sea-men, enlarged. Diuided into fifteene Chapters: what they are you may partly conceiue by the Contents. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes Gouernour of Virginia, and Admirall	London	1627	USD -	50.00
SMITH (<i>Capt.</i> JOHN)	The Sea-mans Grammar and Dictionary, Explaining all the difficult Terms in Navigation: and the practical Navigator and Gunner: In Two Parts... By Captain John Smith, Sometime Governour of Virginia, and Admiral of New England. Now much Amplified and Enlarg	London	1692	USD -	16.00
SMITH (J. Toulmin)	Northmen in New England, or America in the Tenth Century	Boston	1839	USD -	3.50
TUDOR (Wm.)	Letters on the Eastern States.	Boston	1821	USD -	1.00
[WARD (EDWARD)]	Writings of the Author of the London-Spy [including "A Trip to Jamaica, with a true Character of the People and Island;" and "A Trip to New-England, with a Character of the Country and People, both English and Indians;" etc.	London	1704	USD -	5.50
[WELDE (THOMAS) and WINTHROP (JOHN)]	A Short Story of the Rise, reign, and ruin of the Antinomians, Familists & Libertines that infected the Churches of New-England	London	1644	USD -	26.00
WHITE (<i>Rev.</i> JOHN)	The Planter's Plea, Or The Grovnds of Plantations examined, and vsuall Objections answered, Together with a manifestation of the causes mooving such as have lately undertaken a Plantation in Nevv-England: for the satisfaction of those that question the la	London	1630	USD -	50.00
WHITE (H.)	Early History of New England.	Concord, N. H.	1843	USD -	0.70
WINTHROP (JOHN)	A Journal of the Transactions and Occurrences in the Settlement of Massachusetts and the other New England Colonies, from the year 1630, to 1644; now first published from a correct copy of the original manuscript	Hartford	1790	USD -	10.00
WINTHROP (J.)	The History of New England, from 1630 to 1649; from his Original Manuscripts. With notes by J. Savage	Boston	1825, 1826	USD -	5.00
WINTHROP (J.)	The same.	Boston	1853	USD -	4.00
WOOD (WILLIAM)	New Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New-England, &c.	London	1635	USD -	80.00
WOOD (WILLIAM)	New-England's Prospect. A true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called New-England, &c.	Tho. Cotes	1635	USD -	40.00
WOOD (WM.)	New-England's Prospect.	Boston, repr.	1764	USD -	20.00
WOOD (WM.)	New-England's Prospect.	Boston	1764	USD -	8.00
WOOD (WM.)	New England's Prospect. [Edited by Charles Deane.]	Boston	1865	USD -	7.00
[CHILD (<i>Mrs.</i> L. Maria)]	The First Settlers of New England; or, Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets. By a Lady of Massachusetts	Boston	n. d. [ab. 1822]	USD -	2.25
CHURCH (THOMAS)	Entertaining Passages relating to Philip's War which Began in the Month of June, 1675. As also of Expeditions More lately made Against the Common Enemy, and Indian Rebels, in the Eastern Parts of New-England: with Some Account of the Divine Providence tow	Boston	1716	USD -	150.00
CHURCH (THOMAS)	The entertaining History of King Philip's War, Which began in the month of June, 1675, as also of Expediditions more lately made against the Common Enemy, and Indian Rebels, in the Eastern Parts of New-England: With some account of the Divine Providence t	Boston	1716	USD -	20.00
CHURCH (T.)	The Entertaining History of King Philip's War, ...	Newport, repr.	1772	USD -	9.00
CHURCH (T.)	History of King Philip's War, and of the Eastern Expeditions of 1689--1704 against the Indians and French; edited by H. M. Dexter	Boston	1865--1867	USD -	4.50
Church (Thos.)	History of the Great Indian War of 1675--6; also, the Old French and Indian Wars, 1689--1704; with notes and appendix by Samuel G. Drake	Hartford	1854	USD -	1.00
DRAKE	The Old Indian Chronicle; being a Collection of Exceeding Rare Tracts, written and published in the Time of King Philip's War; with Introduction and Notes by Samuel G. Drake	Boston	1867	USD -	1.50

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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

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

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

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