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

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Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
	Three Letters of Thanks to the Protestant Reconciler. 1. From the Anabaptists at Munster. 2. From the Congregations in New-England. 3. From the Quakers in Pensilvania	London	1683	USD -	0.50
Tracts. (CHURCH GOVERNMENT.) Stoughton (W.)	Assertion for True and Christian Church Policie. 1642. (See No. 672).---Reformation of Church Government in Scotland cleared from Mistakes and Prejudices. 1644.---An Anatomy of Independency, 1644.---Reasons of Dissenting Brethren against the Third	London	1641--1645	USD -	10.00
TRACTS	(On LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE, etc.) The Ancient Bounds, or Liberty of Conscience tenderly Stated .. and mildly Vindicated. 1645.---Musgrave (J.) Conscience Pleading for its own Liberty. 1647.---Birchley (W.) The Christian Moderator, or Persecution for	London	1644--1668	USD -	16.00
TRACTS. (INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS.)	An APOLOGETICALL NARRATION hvmbly svbmitted to the Honourable Houses of Parliament. By Tho. Goodwin, Philip Nye, Wm. Bridge, Jer. Burroughes, Sidrach Simpson		1643	USD -	11.00
	Tracts. (MISCELLANEOUS.) Treatise of Self-Denial	London	1645--1649	USD -	11.00
	VINDICIAE CLAVIVM: or, a Vindication of the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, into the hands of the right Owners ... Animadversions upon a Tract of Mr. I[ohn] C[otton], by an Earnest Well-Wisher to the Truth	London	1645	USD -	5.00
[WALKER (Clem.)]	Relations and Observations upon the Parliament .. I. The Mysteries of the Two Juntos. II. The History of Independency. 1648.---PAGITT (E.) Heresiography. 4th edition		1647	USD -	14.00
	[WARD (NATHANIEL)] The Simple Cobler of Aggavvam in America. Willing To help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ... By Theodore de la Guard	London	1647	USD -	24.00
	[WARD (Nath.)] The Simple Cobler of Aggavvamm in America ... By Theodore de la Guard. The Fourth Edition, with some Amendments	London	1647	USD -	15.00
WARD (SAMUEL)	Sermons. Christ is All in All		n. d.	USD -	12.00
WHEELWRIGHT (JOHN) <i>Junior.</i>	Mercurius Americanus, Mr. Welds his Antitype, or, Massachusetts great Apologie examined, Being Observations upon a Paper styled, A short story of the Rise, Reign, and Ruine of the Familists, Libertines, &c. which infected the Churches of New-England, &c.	London	1645	USD -	25.00
WHITE (NATH.)	Truth gloriously Appearing, from under The sad and sable Cloud of Obloquie. Or, A Vindication Of the Practice of the Church of Christ in the Summer-Islands, in an Apologetical Answer unto some Letters and Papers lately sent from the Summer-Islands, by Ric	London	n. d.	USD -	8.50
WHITFIELD (HENRY)	Some Helpes to stirre up to Christian Dvties. Second edition, pp. (20), 228	London	1634	USD -	6.50
WILLARD (S.)	A Brief Discourse Concerning that Ceremony of Laying the Hand on the Bible in swearing	London	1689	USD -	2.25
WILLIAMS (ROGER)	Mr. Cottons Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered	London	1644	USD -	120.00
[WILLIAMS (ROGER)]	The Blovdy Tenent, of Persecution, for cause of Conscience, discussed, in A Conference betweene TRVTH and PEACE	n. p.	1644	USD -	72.50
WILLIAMS (ROGER)	The Bloody Tenent yet more Bloody: By Mr. Cotton's endevour to wash it white in the Blood of the Lambe	London	1652	USD -	150.00
WILLIAMS (ROGER)	The same.		1652	USD -	145.00
WILLIAMS (ROGER)	Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health	London, repr. Providence	1652 [1866]	USD -	0.50
WILLIAMS (Roger)	A Key into the Language of America. London, 1643. [A literal reprint,] with an Introduction and Notes, by J. H. Trumbull.---A Letter of Mr. John Cotton's to Mr. Williams (Lond. 1643), and Mr. J. Cotton's Letter lately printed Examined	Providence	1866	USD -	3.00
WINSLOW (EDWARD)	The Danger of Tolerating Levellers In a Civill State: Or, An Historicall Narration of the dangerous pernicious practices and opinions, wherewith SAMUEL GORTON and his Levelling Accomplices so much disturbed and molested the severall Plantations in New-Eng	London	1649	USD -	90.00
	[WORKMAN (G.) Private-men no Pulpit men: or, A Modest Examination of Lay-men's Preaching. Discovering it to be neither warranted by the Word of God: nor allowed by the Judgement, or Practise of the Churches of Christ in New-England, in answer to a Writing	London	1646	USD -	13.50
ADAMS (WILLIAM)	of Dedham. God's Eye on the Contrite or A Discourse shewing That True Poverty and Contrition of Spirit and Trembling at God's Word is the Infallible and only way for the Obtaining and Retaining of Divine Acceptation. Massachusetts Election Sermon,	Boston	1685	USD -	10.50
ADAMS (ELIPHALET)	A Discourse putting Christians in Mind to be Ready to Every Good Work. Delivered in Boston, Octob. 20th, 1706. [With] A Lecture in Boston, Nov. 29, 1806.	Boston	1706	USD -	8.00
ALLEN (JAMES)	of Boston, New-Englands choicest Blessing and the Mercy most to be desired by all that wish well to this People, Cleared in [an ELECTION] SERMON, May 28, 1679	Boston	1679	USD -	16.00
ALLEN (JAMES)	New-Englands choicest Blessing, &c.	Boston	[1679]	USD -	19.00
ALLEN (JAMES)	Serious Advice to Delivered Ones of Sickness, or other Dangers threatening Death: or, The Healed Ones Prophulaction	[Boston]	1679	USD -	Not Sold
ALLEN (JAMES)	Neglect of Supporting and maintaining the pure Worship of God, by the Professing People of God: is a God-provoking and Land-Wasting Sin. [Fast] Sermon, at Roxbury	Boston	1687	USD -	36.00
ALLIN (JOHN)	of Dedham. Animadversions upon the Antisynodalia Americana, a Treatise Printed in Old England, in the Name of the Dissenting Brethren in the Synod held at Boston, 1662	Cambridge	1664	USD -	55.00
ALLIN (JOHN)	[MDCXLVI. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1646.]	[Cambridge]	[1646]	USD -	52.50
ALLIN (JOHN)	MDCXLVII. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1647---Calculated for the Longitude of 315 degr. and Elevation of the Pole Arctick 42 degr. & 30 min. and may ge- nerally serve for the most part of New-England. By Samuel Danforth of Harvard Colledge	Cambridge	1647	USD -	80.00
ALLIN (JOHN)	MDCXLVIII. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1648---Calculated	Cambridge	1648	USD -	52.50
ALLIN (JOHN)	MDCXLIX. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1649---Calculated [etc.].	Cambridge	1649	USD -	45.00
ALLIN (JOHN)	MDCL. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1650 Being the third after Leap year and from the Creation 5582.---Calculated	Cambridge.	1650	USD -	52.50
ALMANACS	1659--1665 (except 1664):---An Almanack of the Coelestial Motions for this present Year of the Christian AEra 1659, By Zech: Brigden Astrophil:	Cambridg	1659	USD -	156.00
	ALMANACS	Cambridge	1671--1675	USD -	125.00
ALMANACS	An Almanack of Coelestial Motions for the Year of the Christian AEra, 1673. By N. H. [Nehemiah Hobart?]	Cambridge		USD -	15.00
	ALMANACS.	Cambridge and Boston	1676--1679	USD -	84.00
ALMANACK	of Coelestial Motions for the Year of the Christian AEpocha, 1680	[Boston]		USD -	17.00
	ALMANACS (17)	Cambridge and Boston	1681--1690	USD -	144.50
	An Almanack of Coelestial Motions for the Year 1671 ... By D. R. [Daniel Russell?] Philomathemat.	Cambridge	1671	USD -	6.50
	An Almanack of Coelestial Motions for ... 1679. [By] J. F[oster].	Boston		USD -	3.00
	An Almanack or Register of Coelestial Configurations &c: for ... 1679. By J. D[anforth], Philomath.	Cambridge	1679	USD -	3.00
ALMANACS	An Ephemeris of Coelestial Motions, &c. for 1682. By W. Brattle, Philomath.	Cambridge	1682	USD -	0.50
ALMANACS	The Boston Ephemeris. An Almanack for the Year 1684. By Benjamin Gillam, Philonauticus.	Boston	1684	USD -	0.50
ALMANACS	Cambridge Ephemeris An Almanack .. for the Year .. 1685. By W. Williams, Philopatr.	Cambridge	1685	USD -	0.50
ALMANACS	The New-England Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1686. And of the world, 5635. Since the planting of Massachusetts Colony in New-England, 58. Since the found. of Harv. Coll. 44 ... By S. D. [Samuel Danforth?]	Cambridge	1686	USD -	0.50
ALMANACS	Harvard's Ephemeris. Or Almanack ... for .. 1690. By H. Newman.	Cambridge	1690	USD -	0.50
ALMANACS. TULLEY (JOHN)	An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1687 .. Unto which is annexed a Weather-Glass, whereby the Change of Weather may be foreseen.	Boston		USD -	14.00
ALMANACS. Tulley (John)	An Almanac for the Year of our Lord, MDCXCII.	Cambridge	1692	USD -	5.00
ALMANACS	News from the Stars. An Almanack ... For the Year of the Christian Empire, 1691 ... Respecting the Meridian of Boston, in New-England. By Henry Newman, Philomath. R. Pierce for Benj. Harris, 1691.---Boston Almanack for the Year of our Lord God, 169	Boston	1692	USD -	10.00
ALMANACS. Clough (1700--1707)	The New-England Almanack, For the Year[s] 1700, and 1702--07 ... By Samuel Clough, A Lover of the Mathematicks	Boston		USD -	5.25
	AN ANSWER of Several Ministers in and near Boston, to that Case of Conscience, Whether it is Lawful for a Man to Marry his Wives own Sister? AN ANSWER of Several Ministers in and near Boston, to that Case of Conscience, Whether it is Lawful for a Man to M	Boston	1695	USD -	13.00
AN APPEAL	To the Men of New-England, with a short Account of Mr. Randolph's Papers	[Boston]	1689	USD -	50.00
BELCHER (JOSEPH)	of Dedham. The Worst Enemy Conquered. A Brief Discourse on the Methods and Motives to pursue a Victory over those Habits of SIN, which War against the Soul. Artillery Election Sermon	Boston	1698	USD -	4.00
BELCHER (SAMUEL)	of Newbury. Concio ad Magistratum, or, An Assize Sermon, Before the Superiour Court, at Ipswich, May 21, 1702	Boston	1707	USD -	1.75
BELCHER (SAMUEL)	of Newbury. Concio ad Magistratum, or, An Assize Sermon, Before the Superiour Court, at Ipswich, May 21, 1702		1707	USD -	2.00
BILLS OF CREDIT	Some Considerations on the BILLS OF CREDIT, now passing in New-England. [And] Some Additional Considerations, By a Gentleman that had not seen the foregoing Letter	Boston	1691	USD -	21.00
BOONE (NICHOLAS)	Military Discipline. The Compleat Souldier, or Expert Artillery-Man: containing The several Postures and Exercises of the Musket & Firelock, etc. .. To which is added, The Duties of all the Officers in a Private Company: As also, the MILITARY LAW o	Boston	1701	USD -	7.00
BOONE (NICHOLAS)BOONE (NICHOLAS)	Military Discipline. The Compleat Soldier ... Added, The Military Law of the Province. The Second Edition with Additions Military Discipline. The Compleat Soldier ... Added, The Military Law of the Province. The Second Edition with Additions	Boston	1706	USD -	3.00
BOONE (NICHOLAS)	The same			USD -	0.50
BOSTONBOSTON	Several Rules, Orders, and By-Laws made and agreed upon by the Free-Holders and Inhabitants of Boston of the Massachusets, At their Meeting May 12 and Sept. 22, 1701; [with Rules and Orders adopted at various subsequent dates, to 1727 Several Rules, Order	Boston	1702	USD -	1.00
BOSWORTH (BENJAMIN)	Signs of Apostacy Lamented [a Poem,]	n. p.	1693	USD -	17.00
BRIDGE (THOMAS)	Jethro's Advice Recommended to the Inhabitants of Boston, Viz. To Chuse Well-qualified Men and Haters of Covetousness, for Town Officers. A Lecture on Exodus 18. 21	Boston	1710	USD -	4.00
BURNET (GILB.)	Bishop of Sarum. A Sermon, before the House of Commons, 31st of January, 1688. Being the Thanksgiving-Day For the Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power	[Repr.] Boston	1689	USD -	1.00
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 To be presented to the Churches and Generall Court for their consideratio		1649	USD -	155.00
CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM	A Platform of Church Discipline, etc.	Cambridge	1649	USD -	50.00
CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM	A Platform of Church-Discipline gathered out of the Word of God, etc.	Cambridge	1671	USD -	70.00
CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM	A Platform of Church-Discipline &c.	Boston	1680	USD -	10.00
CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM	A Platform of Church-Discipline, agreed upon by ... the Synod at Cambridge, Anno 1649	Boston	1701	USD -	10.00
CARREA (EZECHIEL)	formerly Minister of Rochechalais (sic) in France, now Minister of the French Colony in Narrhaganset. The Charitable Samaritan. A Sermon on the tenth Chapter of Luke, ver. 30--35, Pronounced in the French Church at Boston. Translated into English b	Boston	1689	USD -	13.00
CATECHISM	(Westminster) The Shorter Catechism composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines, with the Proofs thereof out of the Scriptures, in Words at length, etc.	Boston	1683	USD -	21.00
CHAUNCY (CHARLES)	President of Harvard Colledge, Gods Mercy, shewed to his People in giving them a faithful Ministry and Schooles of Learning for the continual supplyes thereof. Commencement Sermon		1655	USD -	65.00
(CHEEVER'S Latin Accidence.)	A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue, For the Use of the Lower Forms in the Latin School. Being the Accidence Abbridg'd and Compiled in that most easy and accurate Method, wherein the Famous Mr. Ezekiel Cheever taught; and which he found the most adva	Boston	1709	USD -	15.00
	The Church Renewed Covenant, June 29. 1680	n. p. [Boston]	n. d. [1680]	USD -	6.00
CONNECTICUT	Their Majesties Colony of Connecticut in New-England Vindicated, From the Abuses of a Pamphlet, Licensed and Printed at New-York 1694, Intituled, Some Seasonable Considerations for the Good People of Connecticut. By an Answer Thereunto.	Boston	1694	USD -	10.00
COTTON (JOHN)	God's Promise to his Plantations; 2 Sam. 7, 10 ... As it was Delivered in a Sermon	London, Repr. Boston	1634 [1686]	USD -	5.00
	The Crown and Glory of a Christian, consisting in a Sound Conversion and Well Ordered Conversation. The Third Edition	Boston	1684	USD -	10.00
CULMAN (LEONARD)	Sententiae Pueriles Anglo-Latinae .. Sentences for Children, English and Latin: Translated by Charles Hoole, for the first Entrers into Latin	Boston	1702	USD -	3.00
DANFORTH (JOHN)	of Dorchester. Kneeling to God, At Parting with Friends. Setting forth and recommending the Primitive Mode of taking Leave	Boston	1697	USD -	15.00
DANFORTH (JOHN)	The Blackness of Sins against Light. Or, Men's offering Violence to their Knowledge, etc.	Boston	1710	USD -	1.25
DANFORTH (SAMUEL)	of Roxbury. A Brief Recognition of New-Englands Errand into the Wilderness. (Massachusetts Election Sermon, May, 1670)	Cambridge	1671	USD -	22.00
DANFORTH (SAMUEL)	The Duty of Believers to oppose the Growth of the Kingdom of Sin, Pressed. (Artillery Election Sermon, 1708.)	Boston	1708	USD -	6.00
[DAVENPORT (JOHN)]	A Discourse about Civil Government in a New Plantation whose Design is Religion. Written many years since, By that Reverend and Worthy Minister of the Gospel JOHN COTTON B. D. And now Published by some Undertakers of a New Plantation, for General Directio	Cambridge	1663	USD -	90.00
DAVENPORT (JOHN)	Another Essay for Investigation of the Truth, in Answer to Two Questions, Concerning I. The Subject of Baptism. II. The Consociation of Churches	Cambridge	1663	USD -	70.00
DAVENPORT (JOHN)	Gods Call to His People To Turn unto Him; Together with His Promise to Turn unto them. Opened and Applied in II. Sermons, at two Publick Fasting-dayes	Cambridge	1669	USD -	55.00
	A DECLARATION OF FORMER Passages and Proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansets, with their confederates, Wherin the grounds and iustice of the ensuing warre are opened and cleared. Published, by order of the Commissioners for the united Coloni	n. p. [Cambridge]	n. d. [1645]	USD -	215.00
DENISON (DANIEL)	Irenicon, or a Slave For New-England's Sore	[Boston]	1684	USD -	7.00
[DOD (<i>Rev.</i>) JOHN]	OLD MR. DOD'S SAYINGS; or, A Posie gathered out of Mr. Dod's Garden. Collected by R. T.	Cambridge	1673	USD -	15.00
DOOLITTLE (T.)	Earthquakes Explained and Practically Improved: Occasioned by the late Earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond Sea	Repr. Boston	1693	USD -	5.00
DUMMER (JEREMY)	A. L. M. & Philosoph. Doct. A Discourse on the Holiness of the Sabbath-Day. Sermon at Boston, Oct. 29, 1704. (With prefatory address to the Reader, by Increase Mather.)	Boston	1704	USD -	2.00
EASTERBROOKS (JOSEPH)	Abraham the Passenger his Privilege and Duty. An ELECTION-SERMON at Boston, May 30. 1705	Boston	1705	USD -	3.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	COMMUNION OF CHURCHES: or, The Divine Management of Gospel-Churches by the Ordinance of COUNCILS, Constituted in Order according to the Scriptures, etc. Written by John Eliot, Teacher of Roxbury in N. E.	Cambridge	1665	USD -	110.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	The Harmony of the Gospels, in the Holy History of the Humiliation and Sufferings of Jesus Christ, from his Incarnation to his Death and Burial	Boston	1678	USD -	40.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	The Harmony of the Gospels.	Boston	1678	USD -	115.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	The Harmony of the Gospels.	Boston	1678	USD -	80.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	A Brief Answer To a Small Book written by John Norcot against Infant-Baptisme. This Answer is written by John Eliot for the sake of some of the Flock of Jesus Christ who are ready to be staggered in point of Infant-Baptisme by reading	Boston	1699	USD -	130.00
ELIOT (JOHN)	The Dying Speeches of several Indians.	n. p. [Cambridge]	n. d. [168--]	USD -	145.00
FITCH (JAMES)	Pastor of the Church at Norwich [Conn.] Peace, the End of the Perfect and Upright .. A Sermon, upon the Death of .. Mrs. ANNE MASON, sometime Wife to Major Mason, who not long after finished his Course and is now at rest	Cambridge	1672	USD -	40.00
FITCH (JAMES)	An Holy Connexion, Or a true Agreement Between Jehovahs being a Wall of Fire to his People, and the Glory in the midst thereof	Cambridge	1674	USD -	38.00

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

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

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Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

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Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

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.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

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Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.