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
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i> MARY) ---	A True History of the Captivity & Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, A Minister's Wife in New-England. Wherein is set forth, The Cruel and Inhumane Usage she underwent amongst the Heathens, for Eleven Weeks time: And her deliverence from them. Written b	London	1682	USD -	11.50
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed: being a Narrative Of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Commended by her, to all that desire to know the Lords Doings to, & Dealings with h	Boston	1720	USD -	3.13
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes, of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson ... Written by her own Hand, etc.	Boston	1770	USD -	5.00
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The same	Boston	1773	USD -	4.25
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The same	New London	177[4]	USD -	5.00
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The same	Amherst, N. H.	[1792]	USD -	3.00
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The same	Boston	1794	USD -	7.00
ROWLANDSON (<i>Mrs.</i>)	The same. 6th edition. Second Lancaster edition. [Preface and Appendix, by Rev. Jos. Willard.]	Lancaster	1828	USD -	2.13
SMETHURST (GABRIEL)	A Narrative of an Extraordinary Escape out of the Hands of the Indians, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence; interspersed with a Description of the Coast, and Remarks on the Customs and Manners of the Savages there: also, A Providential Escape after a Shipwreck,	London	1774	USD -	8.00
STEELE (ZADOCK)	The Indian Captive; or a Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele ... To which is prefixed, an Account of the Burning of Royalton	Montpelier, Vt.	1818	USD -	6.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The Redeemed Captive, Returning to Zion. A Faithful History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams, Minister of the Gospel in Deerfield, who, in the Desolation which befel that Plantation, by an Incursion of the Fr	Boston	1707	USD -	106.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, etc. THE SECOND EDITION	Boston	1720	USD -	11.00
Williams (John)	The Redeemed Captive, Returning to Zion ... THE THIRD EDITION. As also an Appendix: Containing an Account of those taken Captive at Deerfield, February 29, 1703--4. Of those kill'd after they went out of town; those who returned; and of those still absent	Boston	1758	USD -	5.25
Williams (John)	The Redeemed Captive, Returning to Zion ... THE FOURTH EDITION. [With] an Appendix, containing an Account of those taken Captive at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1703--4; of those killed, etc. ... With a Conclusion to the whole, by the Rev. Mr. Williams of S	Boston, printed; New London, repr.	n. d. [1773]	USD -	6.50
Williams (John)	The same. The FIFTH Edition. [With Appendix, etc.]	Boston	1774	USD -	7.50
Williams (John)	The same.	Boston	1774	USD -	3.00
Williams (John)	The same. The Fifth Edition	New London, reprinted	n. d. [1780?]	USD -	4.25
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The Redeemed Captive, etc. [With the Sermon,] also, an Appendix by the Rev. Mr. Williams, of Springfield. Likewise, an Appendix, by the Rev. Mr. [John] Taylor, of Deerfield. With a conclusion to the whole, by the Rev. Mr. Prince of Boston. The Four	Greenfield, Mass.	1793	USD -	8.25
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The same. The SIXTH Edition	Boston	1795	USD -	3.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The same. The Sixth Edition, with Additions	Greenfield	1800	USD -	2.50
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The same. [Re-printed, apparently, from the Fifth Edition;] with Mr. Taylor's Appendix, etc.]	New Haven	1802	USD -	3.50
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	The Captivity and Deliverance of Mr. John Williams, ... of Deerfield, and Mrs. Mercy Rowlandson, of Lancaster, who were taken, together with their families and neighbors by the French and Indians, and carried into Canada. Written by themselves	Brookfield	1811	USD -	2.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	God in the Camp: or the only Way for a People to engage the Presence of God with their Armies; Sermon before the General Assembly, Boston, March 6, 1706--7	Boston	1707	USD -	11.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN)	God in the Camp. Sermon, before the Gen. Assembly, in Boston, March 6, 1706--7	Boston	1707	USD -	15.00
WILLIAMS (JOHN) Chauncey (Isaac)WILLIAMS (JOHN) Chauncey (Isaac)	Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Mr. John Williams, Pastor of the Church in Deerfield Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Mr. John Williams, Pastor of the Church in Deerfield	Boston	1729	USD -	6.00
AINSWORTH (HENRY)AINSWORTH (HENRY)	An Animadversion to Mr. Richard Clyfton's Advertisement ... [Wherein] the true Causes of the lamentable Breach that hath lately fallen out in the English exiled Church at Amsterdam [are] manifested An Animadversion to Mr. Richard Clyfton's Advertisement .	Amsterdam	1613	USD -	13.00
AINSWORTH (HENRY)	The Commvnion of Saincts, A Treatise ... gathered out of the Holy Scriptures	n. p.	1615	USD -	4.00
AINSWORTH (Henry)	Counterpoyson. Considerations touching the poynts in difference between the godly ministers and people of the Church of England, and the seduced brethren of the Separation ... Mr. Bernard's Book intituled the Separatists Schisme, [and] Mr. Crashawe's Ques	n. p.	1642	USD -	50.00
ALLEN (THOS.)	A Chaine of Scripture Chronologie	[London]	[1659]	USD -	9.50
AMES (WM.)AMES (WM.)	Medulla Theologica. Editio 2da. Amstelod. 1628.---The same, Editio 4ta [Liber I.] Lond., 1630.---The same, Editio novissima, orationibus duabus auctior. Medulla Theologica. Editio 2da. Amstelod. 1628.---The same,	Amst	1652	USD -	3.75
AMES (WM.)AMES (WM.)	Anti-Synodalia Scripta, vel Animadversiones in Dogmatica illa, quae Remonstrantes in Synodo Dordracena exhibuerunt Anti-Synodalia Scripta, vel Animadversiones in Dogmatica illa, quae Remonstrantes in Synodo Dordracena exhibuerunt	Amstelodami	1633	USD -	2.25
AMES (WM.)	Lectiones in CL Psalmos Davidis	Amstelodami	1635	USD -	2.00
AMES (WM.)	Lectiones in omnes Psalmos Davidis, etc. (with Hugh Peters's dedication)	Amsterdam	1635	USD -	2.00
	APOLOGIE (An) of the Chvrches in New-England for Chvrch-Covenant. Or, A Discourse touching the Covenant between God and men, and especially concerning Church-Covenant, etc., [by RICHARD MATHER.] Sent over in Answer to Master Bernard, in the Yeare 1	London	1643	USD -	15.00
A[SPINWALL] (W[ILLIAM])	The Legislative Power is Christ's Peculiar Prerogative, Proved from the 9th of Isaiah	London	1656	USD -	18.00
ASPINWALL (WM.)	A Brief Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome that shortly is to come into the World ... Added, a Prognostick of the time when this fifth Kingdome shall begin	London	1653	USD -	5.00
ASPINWALL (WM.)	A Premonition of sundry Sad Calamities yet to Come; grounded upon an Explication of the 24th chapter of Isaiah	London	1655	USD -	16.00
BAGSHAW (EDW.)	The Doctrine of the Kingdom and Personal Reign of Christ asserted and Explained	n. p. [London]	1669	USD -	5.50
BALL (JOHN)	A Treatise of Faith, divided into two Parts. The Second Edition	London	1632	USD -	3.00
BALL (JOHN)	A Friendly Triall of the Grounds tending to Separation; In a plain and modest Discourse touching the Lawfulnesse of a stinted Liturgie and set form of Prayer etc.	Cambridge	1640	USD -	5.00
BAXTER (BENJ.)	Mr. Baxter Baptiz'd in Bloud, or, A Sad History of the Unparallel'd Cruelty of the Anabaptists in New-England. Faithfully Relating the Cruel, Barbarous, and Bloudy Murther of Mr. Baxter an Orthodox Minister, who was kill'd by the Anabaptists, and his Skin	London	1673	USD -	16.00
BAXTER (RICHARD)BAXTER (RICHARD)	Gildas Salvianus; The Reformed Pastor. Gildas Salvianus; The Reformed Pastor.	London	1656	USD -	4.50
BEZA (T.)	Two very Ierned Sermons of M. Beza, .. whereunto is added a treatise of the substance of the Lord's Supper, by T. W., black letter	London	1588	USD -	3.50
BRECK (EDWARD)	An Answer to a Scandalous Paper, wherein were some Queries given to be answered. And likewise, therein is found many Lies and Slanders, and false Accusations against those people whom he (and the World) calls Quakers. Dated from Dorchester in New-E	London	1656	USD -	17.00
BRIGHT (T.)	A Treatise of Melancholy, Containing the Cavses Thereof, And Reasons of the strange effects it worketh in our minds and bodies.	London	1613	USD -	2.00
BULKLEY (<i>Rev.</i> PETER)	The Gospel-Covenant; or the Covenant of Grace Opened; ... Preached in Concord in Nevv-England	London	1646	USD -	4.75
BURROUGHS (JEREMIAH)	Gospel Conversation; ... also, Miserie of Men that have their Portion in this Life.	London	1648	USD -	6.50
CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM	A Platform of Church-Discipline: Gathered out of the Word of God, and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New-England etc.	New-England; Reprinted, London	1653	USD -	32.00
CARTWRIGHT (THOMAS)	A Confutation of the Rhemists Translations, Glosses and Annotations on the New Testament	n. p. [Leyden]	1628	USD -	10.00
	CATECHISMS:---			USD -	24.00
--- R[OGERS] (D[ANIEL])	A Practicall Catechisme; or, A View of those principall truths according to Godlinesse, which are contayned in the Catechisme, etc.	London	1632	USD -	3.25
(CHARLES I. and the Parliament.)	His Majesties Reason why he cannot in conscience consent to abolish the Episcopall Government. With The Answer of the Divines to His Majesties Reason	London	1648	USD -	5.00
CHAUNCY (CHARLES)	The Retractation of Mr. Charles Chancy formerly Minister of Ware in Harfordshire. Wherein is proved the unlawfulnesse and danger of Rayling in Altars or Communion Tables, Written with his own hand before his going to New England, in the yeer 1637 etc.<	London	1641	USD -	10.50
CHAUNCY (ISAAC)	Neonomianism Unmask'd: or, the Ancient Gospel pleaded against the other, called a New Law or Gospel.---The same; 2d Part, and Continuation, and 3d Part.---Rejoynder to D. Williams his Reply to the First Part of [the above].---A Friendly Examination of the	London	1692--1693	USD -	2.00
CHAUNCY (I.)	Divine Institution of Congregational Churches asserted and proved from the Word of God		1697	USD -	0.50
COBBET (THOS.)	A Jvst Vindication of the Covenant and Church-Estate of Children of Church-Members; as also of their Right unto Baptisme	London	1648	USD -	1.50
Cobbet (Thos.)	A Practical Discourse of Prayer	London	1654	USD -	2.00
COBBET (THOMAS)	The Civil Magistrates Povver In matters of Religion Modestly Debated, Impartially Stated according to the Bounds and Grounds of Scripture. ... Together with A Brief Answer to a Certain Slanderous Pamphlet called Ill News from New-England; or, A	London	1653	USD -	41.00
COBBET (T.)	The Civil Magistrates Povver In Matters of Religion ... With A Brief Answer, etc.	London	1653	USD -	20.00
CODDINGTON (WILLIAM)	A Demonstration of True Love unto You the Rulers of the Colony of the Massachusets in Nevv-England; Shewing To you that are now in Authority the unjust Paths that your Predecessors walked in, etc. Written by one who was once in Authority with them;	n. p. [London?]	1674	USD -	70.00
COTTON (JOHN)	Gods Promise to His Plantation. ... As it was delivered in a Sermon by IOHN COTTON, B.D. and Preacher of Gods Word in Boston	London	1630	USD -	36.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Way of Life; or, God's VVay and Course, in bringing the Soule into, keeping it in, and carrying it on, in the wayes of life and peace etc.	London	1641	USD -	3.50
COTTON (JOHN)COTTON (JOHN)	Gods Mercie mixed with his Ivstice, or, His Peoples Deliverance in times of danger, laid open in severall Sermons Gods Mercie mixed with his Ivstice, or, His Peoples Deliverance in times of danger, laid open in severall Sermons	London	1641	USD -	5.50
[COTTON (JOHN)]	An Abstract or [sic] the Lawes of New-England, as they are novv established	London	1641	USD -	25.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Churches Resurrection, or the Opening of the fift and sixt verses of the 20th Chap. of the Revelation	London	1642	USD -	5.50
COTTON (JOHN)COTTON (JOHN)	A Modest and Cleare Answer to Mr. Ball's Discourse of Set Formes of Prayer A Modest and Cleare Answer to Mr. Ball's Discourse of Set Formes of Prayer	London	1642	USD -	5.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Trve Constitvtion of a particular visible Church, proved by Scripture	London	1642	USD -	13.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power thereof, according to the VVord of God	London	1644	USD -	6.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, etc. The second time Imprinted. Autograph of Rev. THOMAS PRINCE, and a list of important errata, in his hand, "taken from a printed paper pasted at the end of another of these Tracts wch	London	1644	USD -	8.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, etc.	London	1644	USD -	5.00
COTTON (JOHN)	Sixteene Questions of Seriovs and Necessary Consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston, in New-England, Together with his Answers to each Question: printed according to Order	London	1644	USD -	7.25
COTTON (JOHN)	The Way of the Churches of Christ in New-England	London	1645	USD -	17.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Controversie Concerning Liberty of Conscience in Matters of Religion, Truly stated, and distinctly and plainly handled by Mr. John Cotton ... By way of answer to some Arguments to the contrary sent unto him , etc.	London	1646	USD -	26.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Controversie Concerning Liberty of Conscience in Matters of Religion, Truly stated, and distinctly and plainly handled by Mr. John Cotton ... By way of answer to some Arguments to the contrary sent unto him, etc.	London	1649	USD -	10.50
COTTON (JOHN)	Singing of Psalmes a Gospel-Ordinance	London	1647	USD -	12.50
COTTON (JOHN)	The Bloudy Tenent, Washed, And made white in the bloud of the Lambe: ... whereunto is added a Reply to Mr. WILLIAMS Answer, to Mr. Cotton's Letter	London	1647	USD -	50.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The same.		1647	USD -	30.00
COTTON (JOHN)	A Briefe Exposition of the whole Book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon	London	1648	USD -	4.00
COTTON (JOHN)	A Briefe Exposition of the whole Book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon	London	1682	USD -	3.00
COTTON (JOHN)	Of the Holinesse of Church-Members	London	1650	USD -	7.50
COTTON (JOHN)	Christ the Fountaine of Life, or sundry choice Sermons on part of the fift Chapter of the first Epistle of St. John	London	1651	USD -	7.00
COTTON (JOHN)	A Briefe Exposition with Practicall Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastes; published by Anthony Tuckney, D.D., Master of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge	London	1654	USD -	4.00
COTTON (JOHN)	The Covenant of Grace: discovering the Great Work of a Sinner's Reconciliation to God; whereunto are added, Certain Queries tending to Accommododation (sic) between the Presbyterian and Congregationall Churches, by the same author; Also, A D	London	1655	USD -	14.00
COTTON (JOHN)	A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace, as it is dispensed to the Elect Seed, effectually unto Salvation. ... The Third edition, Corrected, and much enlarged, by the Authour's own Hand	London	1671	USD -	2.50
COTTON (JOHN)	An Abstract of Laws and Government. Wherein as in a Mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the Government of Christs Kingdome. Accommodable to any State or form of Government in the world, that is not Antichristian or Tyrannicall. Collected and d	London	1655	USD -	20.00
COTTON (JOHN)	An Exposition upon the Thirteenth Chapter of the Revelation	[London]	[1655]	USD -	1.00
(DAVENPORT.) Scudder (Henry)	The Christian's Daily Walke in holy Secvritie and Peace, with An Epistle to the Reader by JOHN DAVENPORT	[London]	[1627]	USD -	1.00
DAVENPORT (JOHN)	An Apologeticall Reply to a Booke [by J. Paget] called an Ansvver to the unjust complaint of W. B[est]. Also an Answer to Mr. I. D. Touching his report of some passages etc.	Rotterdam	1636	USD -	25.00
[DAVENPORT (JOHN)]	The Profession of the Faith of that Reverend and Worthy Divine Mr. J. D. sometimes Preacher of Stevens Coleman-Street, London; Made publiquely before the Congregation at his Admission into one of the Churches of God in New-England	London	1642	USD -	12.00
DAVENPORT (JOHN)	The Knovvledge of Christ Indispensably required of all Men that would be Saved etc.	London	1653	USD -	33.00
DAVENPORT (JOHN)	The Saints' Anchor-Hold, in all Storms and Tempests	London	1661	USD -	10.50
EDWARDS (THOS.)	Gangraena, or a Catalogue of many of the Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of the Sectaries of this Time. The Second edition, enlarged	London	1646	USD -	29.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	The Christian Commonwealth: or The Civil Policy of The Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government, by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher &c. at Roxbury in New-England. And now published (after his consent given) by a Server of	London	n. d. [1659]	USD -	55.00
EYRE (W.)	Vindiciae Justificationis Gratuitae. Justification without Conditions; or the Free Justification of a Sinner, Explained, Confirmed, and Vindicated, ... More especially, from the Attempts of Mr. B. Woodbridge, in his Sermon, entituled	London	1695	USD -	2.00
FIRMIN (GILES)	Separation Examined: or, a Treatise wherein the grounds for Separation from the Ministry and Churches of England are weighed and found too light etc.	Lond.	1652	USD -	20.00
FIRMIN (GILES)	A Brief Review of Mr. Davis's Vindication; ... to which is added Remarks upon some Passages of Mr. Crisp in his Book entituled, Christ Alone Exalted	London	1693	USD -	17.00
FRANCK (R.)	A Philosophical Treatise of the Original and Production of Things, Writ in America in a Time of Solitudes	London	1687	USD -	8.00
FUNERAL SERMONS	Ryther (John) Funeral of JAMES JANEWAY, 1784.	London	1674--1702	USD -	17.50
GILLESPIE (GEO.)	Aaron's Rod Blossoming, or, the Divine Ordinance of Church-Government Vindicated	London	1646	USD -	5.00
GOODWIN (THOS.)	A Childe of Light walking in Darknesse.---The Returne of Prayers	London	1636	USD -	1.50

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