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

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March 10, 1879 - March 10, 1879
Page Size: 2714 items in 28 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
FITCH (JAMES) The First Principles (sic) of the Doctrine of Christ: Together with stronger Meat for them that are skil'd in the Word of Righteousness. Or ... the Body of Divinity, briefly and methodically handled by way of Question and Answer. Publ Boston

1679

USD - 26.00
FITCH (JAMES) An Explanation of the Solemn Advice, Recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the Inhabitants, in that Jurisdiction, Respecting the Reformation of those Evils, which have been the Procuring-Cause of the late Judgments.---[Also,] The Covenant w Boston

1683

USD - 37.50
FLAVEL (JOHN) Sacramental Meditations Upon divers Select Places of Scripture. 6th edition Boston

1708

USD - 2.00
FLAVEL (JOHN) Husbandry Spiritualized: or, the Heavenly Use of Earthly Things. 10th edition. Boston, repr.

1709

USD - 2.00
Further Quaeries Upon the Present State of the New-English Affairs. [Signed S. E.] n. t. p. n. p. [Boston or Cambridge]

n. d. [1690]

USD - 41.00
GOSPEL ORDER REVIVED, Being an Answer to a Book lately set forth by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge, &c., Entituled The Order of the Gospel, &c ... By sundry Ministers of the Gospel in New-England n. p. [NEW YORK]

1700

USD - 25.00
GREEN (BARTHOLOMEW) The Printers Advertisement (Dec. 21, 1700), concerning "A late pamphlet, entituled, Gospel Order Revived, printed at New York," with Depositions, contra, of Thomas Brattle, Zechariah Tuttle, and John Mico, and Depositions of Green and Boston

1701

USD - 40.00
HIGGINSON (JOHN) <i>of Salem.</i> The Cause of God and his People in New-England, as it was Stated and Discussed in A Sermon Preached before the Honourable General Court of the Massachusets Colony, on the 27 day of May 1663. Being the Day of ELECTION at Boston Cambridge

1663

USD - 40.00
HIGGINSON (JOHN) Our Dying Saviour's Legacy of Peace to His Disciples ... from John 14. 27 ... Also a Discourse on the Two Witnesses ... Added, Some Help to Self-Examination. Autograph of Rev. Warham Williams, 1720 Boston

1686

USD - 15.00
HOAR (LEONARD) <i>M. D. Sometime Preacher of God's Word in Wanstead [and President of Harvard College.</i>] The Sting of Death and Death Unstvng, in Two Sermons, on the occasion of the Death of the truely noble and virtuous The Lady Mildmay Boston

1680

USD - 45.00
HOAR (LEONARD) The Sting of Death and Death Unstung, etc. Boston

1680

USD - 37.50
HUBBARD (WM.) The Happiness of a People In the Wisdome of their Rulers Directing and in the Obedience of their Brethren Attending Unto what Israel ougho (sic) to do: [Election] Sermon, at Boston, May. 3d. 1676. Boston

1676

USD - 17.00
HUBBARD (WM.) A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians, in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607. to this present year 1677. But chiefly of the late Troubles in the last two years, 1675. and 1676. To which is added a Discourse about the Warr Boston

1677

USD - 30.00
HUBBARD (WM.) A Funeral Meditation from those Words of the Prophet Isaiah, Chap. 3. 1, 2, 3 verses; Occasioned by the Interrment of Major Daniel Denison, On September 22, 1682. [Boston]

[1684]

USD - 12.50
HUBBARD (WM.) BAXTER (Richard) WEHKOMAONGANOO ASQUAM PEANTOGIG kah asquam Quinnuppegig, tokonogque mahche woskeche Peantamwog ... Kah Yeuyeu qushkinnumun en Indiane Wuttinnontoowaonganit, &c. [Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, translated into the Indian language by John Eliot.] Cambridge

1688

USD - 135.00
HUBBARD (WM.) COTTON (JOHN) Nashauanittue Meninnunk wutch Mukkiesog, ... qushkinnumun en Indiane Unnontoowaonganit, wutch oonenchikqunaout Indiane Mukkiesog, nashpe Grindal Rawson. [Cottons "Spiritual Milk for Babes," translated into the Indian language, for the use of Indian Cambridge

1691

USD - 50.00
HUBBARD (WM.) A CONFESSION OF FAITH owned and consented unto by the Elders & Messengers of the Churches assembled at Boston in New England, May 12. 1680. Boston

1699

USD - 70.00
HUBBARD (WM.) DANFORTH (SAMUEL) The Woful Effects of Drunkenness. A Sermon at Bristol, Oct. 12, 1709, when two Indians, Josias and Joseph, were Executed for Murther Boston

1710

USD - 22.00
HUBBARD (WM.) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England For the Pr Cambridg

1661

USD - 700.00
HUBBARD (WM.) The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New.---Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England For th Cambridge

1663

USD - 1,000.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, etc. Cambridge

1663

USD - 550.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe UP-BIBLUM GOD Naneeswe Nukkone Testament kah wonk Wusku Testament.---Ne quoshkinnumuknashpe Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit John Eliot. Nahohtoeu ontchetoe Printeuoomuk. Cambridge

1685

USD - 500.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Mamusse Wunnutupanatamwe Up-Biblum God .. Ne quoshkinnumuk nashpe .. John Eliot. Nahohtoeu ontchetoe Printeuoomuk. Cambridge

1685, 1680

USD - 500.00
HUBBARD (WM.) ELIOT (JOHN) The Indian Grammar Begun: or, An Essay to bring the Indian Language into Rules, &c. Cambridge

1666

USD - 57.50
HUBBARD (WM.) THE HATCHETS, to hew down the Tree of Sin, which bears the Fruit of Death. Or, The LAWS, by which the Magistrates are to punish Offences, among the Indians, as well as among the English.---Togkunkash, tummethamunate Matcheseongane mehtug, etc. (English n. t. p. Boston

1705

USD - 40.00
HUBBARD (WM.) INDIANE PRIMER Asuh Negonneyeuuk. Ne nashpe Mukkiesog Wohtauog wunnamuhkuttee ogketamunnate Indiane Unnontoowaonk. Kah Meninnunk wutch Mukkiesog. (i. e. Indian Primer or First [Book]. By which Children know correctly to read the Indian language. Also Milk Mushauwomuk [Boston]

1720

USD - 110.00
HUBBARD (WM.) [INDIAN PRIMER asuh Negonneyeuuk.] [Boston]?

USD - 25.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MANITOWOMPAE POMANTAMOONK: Sampwshanau Christianoh Uttoh woh an Pomantog Wussikkitteahonat God. Cambridge

1665

USD - 205.00
HUBBARD (WM.) Manitowompae Pomantamoonk Sampwshanau Christianoh Uttoh woh an Pomantog Wussikkitteahonat God. Cambridge

1685

USD - 42.50
HUBBARD (WM.) MANITOWOMPAE POMANTAMOONK Sampwshanau Christianoh Uttoh woh an Pomantog wussikkitteahonat God. Cambridge

1685

USD - 50.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MASSACHUSEE PSALTER: asuh, Uk-kuttoohomaongash DAVID Weche Wunnaunchemookaonk ne ansukhogup JOHN, Ut Indiane kah Englishe Nepatuhquonkash. &c.---The Massachuset Psalter: or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in Columns of Boston

1709

USD - 135.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MASSACHUSEE PSALTER. Boston

1709

USD - 50.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MASSACHUSEE PSALTER.

1709

USD - 5.00
HUBBARD (WM.) MATHER (INCREASE) <i>and</i> DANFORTH (SAMUEL)HUBBARD (WM.) MATHER (INCREASE) <i>and</i> DANFORTH (SAMUEL) Masukkenukeeg Matcheseaenvog Wequetoog kah Wuttooanatoog Uppeyaonont Christoh kah ne Yeuyeu teanuk, etc. Nashpe Increase Mather ... Yeush kukkookootomwehteaongash qushkinnumunash en Indiane unnontoowaonganit nashpe S. D[anforth] Masukkenukee Bostonut

1698

USD - 110.00
MATHER (COTTON) [Wussukwhonk] En Christianeue asuh peantamwae Indianog, &c. [An Epistle to the Christian Indians, &c.] Mushauwomuk [Boston]

1706

USD - 35.00
HUBBARD (WM.) SHEPARD. (Thomas) and ELIOT (John) SAMPWUTTEAHAE QUINNUPPEKOMPAUAENIN. Wahuwomook oggussemesuog Sampwutteahae Wunnamptamwaenuog, Mache wussukhumun ut English-Mane Unnontoowaonk nashpe Ne muttae-wunnegenue Wuttinneumoh Christ noh asoowesit THOMAS SHEPHARD. Quinnuppenumun en Indian Cambridge

1689

USD - 40.00
HUBBARD (WM.) SHEPARD (T.) and ELIOT (J.) Sampwutteahae Quinnuppekompauaenin, etc. Cambridge

1689

USD - 100.00
HUBBARD (WM.) SHEPARD (T.) and ELIOT (J.) Sampwutteahae Quinnuppekompauaenin, etc. Cambridge

1689

USD - 21.00
JUDGMENT (The) of Several Eminent Divines of the Congregational Way, concerning a Pastor's Power occasionally to exert Ministerial Acts in another Church, besides that which is His Own Particular Flock JUDGMENT (The) of Several Eminent Divines of the Cong Boston

1693

USD - 20.00
LAWSON (DEODAT) The Duty & Property of a Religious Housholder opened in a Sermon Delivered at Charlestown, December 25. 1692 Boston

[1693]

USD - 3.50
LEE (SAMUEL) Χαρα της Πιςεως. The Joys of Faith, or a Treatise opening the true Nature of Faith, &c. Boston

1687

USD - 13.00
LEE (SAMUEL)LEE (SAMUEL) Contemplations on Mortality. Wherein The Terrors of Death are laid open, for a Warning to Sinners; etc. Contemplations on Mortality. Wherein The Terrors of Death are laid open, for a Warning to Sinners; etc. Boston

1698

USD - 7.50
LEE (SAMUEL) Contemplations on Mortality Boston

1698

USD - 8.00
LETTER (An Abstract of a) From a Person of Eminency and worth in Caledonia [Darion] to a Friend at Boston in New England Boston

Printed May 15th, 1699

USD - 20.00
A Little Book for Little Children, Wherein are set down several Directions for Little Children: And several Remarkable Stories both Ancient and Modern, of Little Children, Divers whereof are of those who are Lately Deceased Boston, repr.

1702

USD - 2.50
MAKEMIE (FRANCIS) An Answer to George Keith's Libel against a Catechism published by Francis Makemie. To which is added, by way of Postscript, A Brief Narrative of a Late Difference among the Quakers, begun at Philadelphia. Boston

1694

USD - 65.00
MASSACHUSETTS A Copy of the Kings Majesties Charter, For Incorporating the Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England in America. Granted .. 1628 Boston

1689

USD - 40.00
MASSACHUSETTS The General LAWS and Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony: Revised & Re-printed. By Order of the General Court Holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672. Edward Rawson Secr. Cambridge

1672

USD - 130.00
MASSACHUSETTS THE GENERAL LAWS AND LIBERTIES of the Massachusetts Colony: Revised & Re-printed. By Order of the General Court holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672. [With "Several Laws and Orders" etc. of the Court, 15th of May, 1672, 6 pp.] Cambridge

1672

USD - 77.50
MASSACHUSETTS Several Lavvs and Orders Made at the Sessions of the General Court Held at Boston the 13th of October 1675. As also at the Sessions of Court held at Boston, the 3d. of Novemb. 1675. And Printed by their Order, Edward Rawson Secr. Cambridge

1675

USD - 50.00
MASSACHUSETTS ACTS and LAWS, Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Their Majesties Province of the Massachusets-Bay, in New-England. Begun at Boston, the Eighth Day of June, 1692. And Continued by Adjournment, unto Wednesday the Twelfth Day of October fo Boston

1692

USD - 50.00
MASSACHUSETTS An Act Passed by the Great and General Court .. Begun at Boston the Eighth Day of June, 1692, and Continued .. unto Thursday the Second of March following, being the Fourth Sessions. .. Boston

1693

USD - 42.50
MASSACHUSETTS Acts and Laws, Passed by the Great and General Court .. Convened and held at Boston, the Thirty-first Day of May, 1693, [and in the following years, at the several Sessions, to and including the September Session of the General Court of 1696,] Boston

1693--1696

USD - 50.00
MASSACHUSETTS Acts and Laws, Passed by the Great and General Court .. Begun at Boston [May 27th] 1696. and continued by several Adjournments until [Nov. 18th] following.

1696

USD - 25.00
MASSACHUSETTS The CHARTER Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, To the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Boston

1699

USD - 135.00
MASSACHUSETTS The CHARTER Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary To the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England Boston

1699

USD - 105.00
MASSACHUSETTS or The first Planters of New-England, The End & Manner of their coming thither, and Abode there: in several Epistles Boston

1696

USD - 32.50
[Mitchell (Jonathan)] A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the Synod met at Boston in the Year 1662, against the reply made thereto, by the Rev. John Davenport, ... With An Answer [By Richard Mather] to the Apologetical Preface, set before that Essay Cambridge

1664

USD - 16.00
MITCHELL (JONATHAN) Nehemiah on the Wall, in Troublesom Times. Massachusetts Election Sermon, May 15, 1667 Cambridge

1671

USD - 35.00
MOODEY (JOSHUA) <i>of Portsmouth.</i> Souldiery Spiritualized, or the Christian Souldier Orderly, and Strenuously Engaged in the Spiritual Warre, and So fighting the good Fight. Artillery Election Sermon, Boston, June 1, 1674 Cambridge

1674

USD - 20.00
MOODEY (JOSHUA) The Great Sin of Formality in God's Worship: .. The Subject of a Sermon preacht on the Weekly Lecture in Boston Boston

1691

USD - 12.00
MOODEY (JOSHUA) <i>posthumous.</i>MOODEY (JOSHUA) <i>posthumous.</i> The Believers happy Change by Dying, A Sermon preached on the occasion of the Death of Capt. Thomas Daniel Esq., who was interred the day before, November 17th, 1683 The Believers happy Change by Dying, A Sermon preached on the occasion of the Death of Ca Boston

1697

USD - 12.00
MORTON (CHARLES), <i>Minister at Charlestown.</i> The Spirit of Man: or, Some Meditations (by way of Essay) on the Sense of that Scripture Boston

1693

USD - 15.50
MORTON (NATHANIEL) NEW-ENGLAND'S MEMORIALL; or, A brief Relation of the Most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Providenc of God, manifested to the Planters of New-England in America; With special reference to the first Colony thereof, Called NEW-PLIMOUTH, etc. Cambridge

1669

USD - 150.00
NORTON (JOHN) The Heart of N-England rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation. Or A brief Tractate concerning the Doctrine of the Quakers, etc. By John Norton, Teacher of the Church of Christ at Boston, Who was appointed thereunto by the Order of the Ge Cambridg

1659

USD - 110.00
NORTON (JOHN) The Heart of New-England Rent &c. London

1660

USD - 52.50
NORTON (JOHN) Three Choice and Profitable Sermons Upon Severall Texts of Scripture; viz. Jer. 30. 17. John 14. 3. Heb. 8. 5. The First being the LAST SERMON which he preached at the Court of Election at Boston. The Second was the LAST which he preached on the Lord's-Da Cambridge

1664

USD - 25.00
NOWELL (SAMUEL) Abraham in Arms; Or The first Religious General with his Army engaging in A VVar for which he had wisely prepared, etc. Artillery Election Sermon, 1678. Boston

1678

USD - 17.00
NOWELL (SAMUEL) Abraham in Arms. Artillery Election Sermon. Boston

1678

USD - 20.00
NOYES (NICHOLAS) <i>Teacher of the Church at Salem.</i> New-England's Duty and Interest, to be an Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness. Election Sermon. Boston

1698

USD - 20.00
OAKES (URIAN) New-England Pleaded with, And pressed to consider the things which concern her Peace, at least in this her Day. Election Sermon, May 7. 1673 Cambridge

1673

USD - 16.00
OAKES (URIAN) AN ELEGIE upon The Death of the Reverend Mr. THOMAS SHEPARD, Late Teacher of the Church at Charlstown in New-England: By a great Admirer of his Worth, and true Mourner for his Death. Cambridge

1677

USD - 57.50
OAKES (URIAN) An Elegie upon the Death of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Shepard. Cambridge

1677

USD - 41.00
OAKES (URIAN) <i>Prasident of Harvard Colledge.</i>OAKES (URIAN) <i>Prasident of Harvard Colledge.</i> A Seasonable Discourse Wherein Sincerity & Delight in the Service of God is earnestly pressed upon Professors of Religion. Delivered on a Publick Fast, at Cambridge A Seasonable Discourse Wherein Sincerity & Delight in the Service of God is earnestly pres Cambridge

1682

USD - 17.00
OAKES (URIAN) A Seasonable Discourse, &c. Cambridge

1682

USD - 17.00
OAKES (URIAN) The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence; Over ruling and Omnipotently Disposing and Ordering all Humane Counsels and Affairs. Artillery-Election Sermon at Cambridge, Sept. 10. 1677 Boston

1682

USD - 16.50
OAKES (URIAN) The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence, &c. Boston

1682

USD - 11.00
[OXENBRIDGE (JOHN)] A Quickening Word for the hastening a Sluggish Soul to a seasonable Answer to The Divine Call. Published by a poor Sinner that found it such to him. Being the last Sermon Preached in the First Church of Boston Upon Isaiah 55. 6. By the Pastor there, on th Cambridge

1670

USD - 45.00
PEMBERTON (EBEN.) Funeral Sermon on Rev. Samuel Willard, to which is added, (with separate title and paging,) a Poem on the same Occasion, by Benj. Colman, autograph of Benj. Wadsworth, Pres. of Harvard College. Boston

1707

USD - 2.00
PLYMOUTH LAWS The Book of the General Laws Of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth; Collected out of the Records of the General Court And lately revised, and with some Emendations and Additions, Established and Disposed into such Order as they may readil Cambridge

1672

USD - 130.00
[PROPOSITIONS concerning the Subject of Baptism and Consociation of Churches, Collected and Confirmed out of the Word of God, by a Synod of Elders and Messengers of the Churches ... Assembled at Boston, ... In the Year 1662,] [Cambridge]

[1662]

USD - 2.50
PROPOSITIONS concerning the Subject of Baptism and Consociation of Churches; collected and confirmed out of the Word of God, by a SYNOD OF ELDERS and MESSENGERS of the Churches in Massachusets-Colony,. assembled at Boston according to the Appointment of t n. p. [London]

1662

USD - 26.00
PROPOSITIONS concerning the Subject of Baptism etc. ... Whereunto is anext the ANSWER of the Dissenting Brethren, &c. n. p.

1662

USD - 24.00
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfullnes, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. [Cambridge]

1640

USD - 1,200.00
BAY PSALM BOOK A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book, being the Earliest New England Version of the Psalms and the First Book Printed in America. [Fifty copies for Subscribers, of which this is No. 50,] Cambridge

1862

USD - 37.00
PSALMS A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book being the Earliest New England Version of the Psalms and the First Book printed in America Cambridge

1862

USD - 31.00
PSALMS The Whole Book of Psalmes, Faithfully translated into English Metre; Whereunto is prefixed a discourse, declaring not onely the lawfulnesse, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. n. p. [Cambridge?]

1647

USD - 435.00
The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testament, Faithfully Translated into English Metre. For the use, edification and comfort of the Saints in publick and private, especially in New-England. 2 Tim. 3: 16, 17. Col. 3: 16. [Quotatio Cambridge

n. d.

USD - 90.00
R[ICHARDSON] (J[OHN]) The Necessity of a well Experienced Souldiery, or, A Common Wealth ought to be well Instructed and Experienced in the Military Art. Artillery Election Sermon, June 10, 1675 Cambridge

1679

USD - 20.00
SAFFIN (JOHN) A Brief and Candid Answer to a late Printed Sheet, Entituled, The Selling of JOSEPH Whereunto is annexed, A True and Particular Narrative by way of Vindication of the Author's Dealing with and Prosecution of his Negro Man servant, for his vile and Boston

1701

USD - 47.50
SALTONSTALL (GURDON) <i>of New London.</i> A Sermon preached before the General Assembly .. of Connecticut, May 13, 1697 being the Day for Electing the Governour, &c. Boston

1697

USD - 18.00
S[COTTOW] (J[OSHUA]) The Rise, Spring and Foundation of the Anabaptists, or Re-Baptized of our Time. Written in French by Guy de Brez, 1565, ... and Translated for the use of his Countrymen by J. S. Cambridge

1668

USD - 40.00
[SCOTTOW (JOSHUA)] A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628. With the Lords Signal Presence the First Thirty Years. Also a Caution from New-Englands Apostle, the great COTTON, etc. Published by Old Planters, the Authors of the Old Mens Tears Boston

1694

USD - 44.00
[SCOTTOW (JOSHUA)] A Narrative of the Planting of New-England etc.

1694

USD - 11.00
Severals relating to the FUND Printed for divers Reasons, as may appear. [Boston]

[1682]

USD - 43.00
SEWALL (SAMUEL) Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica ad Aspectum NOVI ORBIS configurata. Or, some few Lines towards a description of the New Heaven, as it makes to those who stand upon the New Earth. By Samuel Sewall, sometime Fellow of Harvard Colledge at Cambr Boston

1697

USD - 24.00
SEWALL (SAMUEL) Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica ad Aspectum NOVI ORBIS configurata. Another copy; autograph of Thomas Prince, 1708 Boston

1697

USD - 10.00
SEWALL (SAMUEL) Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis configurata. Or some few Lines towards a description of the New Heaven As It makes to those who stand upon the New Earth.. The Second Edition Boston

1727

USD - 33.00
SEWALL (SAMUEL) Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica, etc. The Second Edition. With The Fountain Opened, etc., by S. Willard Boston

1727

USD - 7.00
SHEPARD (THOMAS) <i>of Cambridge.</i> The Church-Membership of Children and their Right to Baptisme Cambridge

1663

USD - 32.00
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    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.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    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.