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TWO EARLY DANCE CARDS FROM YALE'S FIRST JEWISH CLUB, THE ACHEVAH CLUB: "ACHEVAH DANCE. HOTEL...

Achevah Club:

TWO EARLY DANCE CARDS FROM YALE'S FIRST JEWISH CLUB, THE ACHEVAH CLUB: "ACHEVAH DANCE. HOTEL TAFT. MARCH 19TH, 1913"; "ACHEVAH DANCE. HOTEL TAFT. JANUARY TWENTY-FOURTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN."

[New Haven, CT: 1913, 1914]. 1913: 2-3/4" 3-5/8". Original blue dyed suede cover, blindstamped with Hebrew text "Achevah" and "1913", textured tissue endpapers, printed interior card, tied at spine with blue tasseled cord, small pencil attached to cord. Printed interior card has [4] pages: title page, two pages with printed..... More

Price: $500.00

ARGUMENT OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CASE OF THE...

Adams, John Quincy:

ARGUMENT OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, VS. CINQUE, AND OTHERS, AFRICANS, CAPTURED IN THE SCHOONER AMISTAD, BY LIEUT. GEDNEY, DELIVERED ON THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY AND 1ST OF MARCH, 1841. WITH A REVIEW OF THE CASE OF THE ANTELOPE, REPORTED IN THE 10TH, 11TH AND 12TH VOLUMES OF WHEATON'S REPORTS.

New York: S.W. Benedict, 1841. 135, [1 blank] pp. Stitched with gathered signatures. Light scattered spotting, else Very Good. Housed in an attractive cloth box, with gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco. With the ownership signature of W.E.Greeley [1806-1858], a Salem, Massachusetts merchant and an incorporator of the Atlantic &..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Adams, John:

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, AND SUNDRY DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO THE REQUISITION FOR AND DELIVERY OF JONATHAN ROBBINS; IN PURSUANCE OF A RESOLUTION OF THIS HOUSE, OF THE 4TH INSTANT. 7TH FEBRUARY, 1800.

[Philadelphia: 1800]. 8pp. Disbound, with original plain rear wrapper. Very Good. Robbins had joined a mutiny aboard the British frigate Hermione. He was jailed in South Carolina; England sought his extradition. But Robbins claimed he had been impressed into British service; that he was in reality an American citizen..... More

Price: $275.00

Alsop, Richard:

A POEM; SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ...

Hartford: 1800. 23pp, disbound, scattered foxing. Good+. DAB calls Alsop "the most gifted of the 'Hartford Wits.'" He dedicates this poem to Martha Washington. FIRST EDITION. Evans 36806. Wegelin 846. I DAB 229. Trumbull 265. More

Price: $200.00

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, ELIJAH ROBINSON OF STAFFORD & JAMES CHAMBERLAIN OF...

[American Revolution]:

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, ELIJAH ROBINSON OF STAFFORD & JAMES CHAMBERLAIN OF TOLLAND BOTH IN THE COUNTY OF HARTFORD ARE HOLDEN AND FIRMLY BOUND UNTO THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE ENGLISH COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, IN NEW-ENGLAND, IN THE SUM OF THREE THOUSAND POUNDS, LAWFUL MONEY, TO BE PAID TO SAID GOVERNOR AND COMPANY; TO THE WHICH PAYMENT WELL AND TRULY TO BE MADE AND DONE, WE JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY BIND OURSELVES, OUR HEIRS, &C. BY THESE PRESENTS. SEALED WITH OUR SEALS, THIS 24TH DAY OF JUNE A.D. 1776. THE CONDITION OF THE ABOVE OBLIGATION IS SUCH, THAT WHEREAS THE ABOVE BOUNDEN ELIJAH ROBINSON IS APPOINTED PAY-MASTER TO HIS OWN COMPANY, NOW TO BE RAISED, TO JOIN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY IN CANADA [,] NOW IF THE SAID ELIJAH ROBINSON SHALL FAITHFULLY AND JUSTLY DISPOSE OF ALL THE MONEYS HE SHALL RECEIVE OUT OF THE PUBLIC TREASURY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF INLISTING THE SOLDIERS IN, AND PAYING SAID COMPANY, AND SHALL ACCOUNT WITH THE COMMITTEE OF THE PAY-TABLE FOR THE SAME, WHEN THERETO REQUIRED, THE ABOVE OBLIGATION TO BE VOID, OTHERWISE TO REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT.

[Connecticut]: June 24, 1776. Folio printed broadside, completed in manuscript, 8-7/8" x 14-1/4." Docketed on verso in ink script. Signed in ink by Elijah Robinson and James Chamberlain; signatures as witnesses of Thos. Seymour and Henry Seymour. Their bond secured their proper disposition of funds for raising a Company of..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1769.

New London: Printed and Sold by T. Green, [1768]. 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Tanning, light to moderate wear, one leaf trimmed closely [touching but not costing text]. Good+. With a paper-maker's advertisement at page [20], and an advertisement for a ferry and tavern at page [24]. An article is included..... More

Price: $275.00

Ames, Nathaniel:

AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY; OR ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST 1770.

Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1769]. 12mo. 12 leaves (complete), tanned, untrimmed, stitched. Some dusting and darkening, Good+. "This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1769..." NAIP. New London..... More

Price: $300.00

Avery, David:

A POEM ON THE ORIGIN AND SUPPRESSION OF THE LATE REBELLION.

Willimantic [CT]: Weaver & Curtiss, Printers, 1865. 12mo. 24pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Avery explains that he wants the poem to "serve as a mirror in which the magnitude and atrocity of treason may be the more clearly seen by all of every class,"..... More

Price: $250.00

Backus, Charles:

THE FAITHFUL MINISTERS OF JESUS CHRIST REWARDED. A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. AZEL BACKUS, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH IN BETHLEM [sic], APRIL 6, 1791.

Litchfield: Collier and Buel, [1792]. 26pp, disbound, lightly spotted. Good+. "Rev. Charles Backus was graduated from Yale College in 1769 and after studying theology under Rev. Levi Hart, became pastor of the church in Somers, Connecticut, from 1774 until his death. He maintained a theological school in his house..... More

Price: $150.00

Backus, Charles:

THE FOLLY OF MAN'S CHOOSING THIS WORLD FOR HIS PORTION. A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND JOSEPH RUSSELL, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH AND CONGREGATION IN PRINCETON, MASSACHUSETTS, MARCH 16, 1796. BY...PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN SOMERS, CONNECTICUT.

Boston: Samuel Hall, 1796. Half title, 31pp, untrimmed and partly uncut. Wide margins, light foxing, stitched. Very Good. "The whole government of God proclaims the worth of the soul ...High earthly attainments are so far from affording complete satisfaction, that they involve in greater cares and perplexities. To the uncertainty..... More

Price: $125.00

[Bacon, Leonard]:

REVIEW OF PAMPHLETS ON SLAVERY AND COLONIZATION. FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE QUARTERLY CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR, FOR MARCH, 1833. SECOND SEPARATE EDITION.

New Haven: 1833. 24pp. Disbound, scattered foxing. Good+. The only edition recorded by American Imprints, NUC, the Library Company, Dumond, and Sabin, despite its stated description. "Bacon was a strong colonizationist, and bitter opponent of immediate emancipation. He was equally opposed to slavery and to organized antislavery effort." Dumond..... More

Price: $250.00

[Baldwin, Roger Sherman]:

CONSIDERATIONS SUGGESTED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECOND COLLEGE IN CONNECTICUT.

Hartford: B. Gleason & Co., Printers, 1824. 36pp, untrimmed, stitched. Light tanning, scattered foxing. Very Good. This pamphlet argues against the establishment of Washington College, now Trinity College, and questions the need for a second college "in a State so small as Connecticut." Those who petitioned for the incorporation..... More

Price: $75.00

DOCTOR WATTS'S IMITATION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. BY...TO WHICH IS ADDED A...

Barlow, Joel:

DOCTOR WATTS'S IMITATION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. BY...TO WHICH IS ADDED A COLLECTION OF HYMNS; THE WHOLE APPLIED TO THE STATE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN GENERAL.

Hartford: Barlow and Babcock, 1785. 12mo. 300, [15], 302-348 pp [as issued]. Leaf 177-178, as the references note, is a cancel, with stanza 4 on page 177 reading, 'least you fall.' The 'S' on page 178 is inverted. Contemporary sheep, rubbed, front cover detached but present, title leaf chipped at..... More

Price: $350.00

Barlow, Joel:

DOCTOR WATTS'S IMITATION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. TO WHICH IS ADDED A COLLECTION OF HYMNS; THE WHOLE APPLIED TO THE STATE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN GENERAL.

Hartford: Barlow and Babcock, 1785. pp 300, [10 index] [bound with] Watts, I[saac]: HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, IN THREE BOOKS. Boston: 1787 252, xi pp Expertly repaired closed tear to title and another leaf [no loss] Contemporary full leather [wooden boards exposed, hinges weak] Scattered foxing Good+... More

Price: $375.00

LEGAL PROVISION RESPECTING THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN FACTORIES, &C; WITH...

[Barnard, Henry]:

LEGAL PROVISION RESPECTING THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN FACTORIES, &C; WITH EXAMPLES OF IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. EDUCATION AND LABOR; OR THE INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION ON THE QUALITY AND VALUE OF LABOR; AND ITS CONNECTION WITH INSANITY AND CRIME.

Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany & Burnham, 1842. 4, 52, 32pp. Disbound, first two leaves detached, foxed. Light chipping and edge wear to outer leaves. Signed in type on page 2: "Henry Barnard, 2d. Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools. Hartford, May 3, 1842." Good+. Barnard "presents..... More

Price: $250.00

BARNUM'S APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS OF CONN., MARCH, 1852. P. T. Barnum

Barnum, P.T.:

BARNUM'S APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS OF CONN., MARCH, 1852.

Hartford, Conn. 1852. Broadsheet, 10-1/2" x 15". Recto and verso printed in four columns. Light old folds. Title printed in large, bold type. Very Good. In 1849 the State of Maine enacted a Liquor Law authorizing "the destruction of intoxicating liquors when they may be found in the possession of..... More

Price: $1,750.00

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, BRIDGEPORT, SEPTEMBER 28, 1867, FROM P.T. BARNUM'S ATTORNEY AND FRIEND,...

[Barnum, Phineas Taylor] Ives, Francis:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, BRIDGEPORT, SEPTEMBER 28, 1867, FROM P.T. BARNUM'S ATTORNEY AND FRIEND, TO HON. O[RIGEN] S. SEYMOUR, LAWYER AND FUTURE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE CONNECTICUT SUPREME COURT, CONCERNING BARNUM'S POSSIBLE LIABILITY FOR THE FRAUD COMMITTED BY BARNUM'S YOUNG NEPHEW, WILLIAM HOWARD BARNUM, ON THE PEQUONNOCK BANK OF BRIDGEPORT. .

Bridgeport [CT]: 1867. Large folio, folded to 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". [4] pp, lined paper. Completely in ink manuscript. Very Good. P.T. Barnum had executed a bond as principal guaranteeing William Howard Barnum's honest and faithful performance of his duties. "At the time the bond was executed Wm..... More

Price: $850.00

Bassett, Amos:

ADVANTAGES AND MEANS OF UNION IN SOCIETY. BY...PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN HEBRON.

Hartford: 1807. 34, [2 blanks] pp, with the half title. Light wear, Very Good. More

Price: $25.00

VISIBLE SAINTS LAWFUL RIGHT TO COMMUNION IN CHRISTIAN SACRAMENTS, VINDICATED. (IN WAY OF ANSWER...

Beckwith, George:

VISIBLE SAINTS LAWFUL RIGHT TO COMMUNION IN CHRISTIAN SACRAMENTS, VINDICATED. (IN WAY OF ANSWER TO A SERMON, ENTITLED, CHRISTIAN BAPTISM, DELIVERED AT HANOVER, IN NEW-JERSEY, NOVEMBER 4TH, 1764. BY THE REV. JACOB GREEN, A.M.) IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. IN THREE PARTS. BY...PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN LYME, CONNECTICUT.

New London: Timothy Green, 1769. 108pp, with errata at bottom of page 108. Disbound, with remnant of later wrapper on spine. Untrimmed at the fore-margin and lower margin. Trimmed closely at the top margin, sometimes affecting part of a page number. Good+. Beckwith's 'Advertisement' explains "Why any body in..... More

Price: $450.00

[Bellamy, Joseph]:

A LETTER TO SCRIPTURISTA; CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ON HIS ANSWER TO PAULINUS'S THREE QUESTIONS: WHEREIN THE NATURE OF A TEST OF ORTHODOXY IS EXACTLY STATED; THE CHURCH'S RIGHT TO KNOW AND JUDGE OF THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES OF THOSE WHO ARE ADMITTED TO SEALING ORDINANCES, AND REJECT THE ERRONEOUS, IS ASSERTED; AND THE PRACTICE OF OUR CHURCHES IN NEW-ENGLAND, FROM THEIR FIRST SETTLEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY, VINDICATED, AND ALSO THREE QUESTIONS MORE, RELATIVE TO THE NEW WAY OF TAKING PERSONS INTO THE CHURCH, LATELY INTRODUCED AT WALLINGFORD, BY MR. DANA, STATED: WITH A DESIRE THEY MAY BE ANSWERED BY SCRIPTURISTA, IN HIS NEXT LETTER TO HIS FRIEND PAULINUS.

Boston: Re-printed and Sold by S. Kneeland [New-Haven: Printed 1760], 1761. 24pp. Untrimmed, loose. Toned, some blank extremity chips, closed tear to title page [no text loss]. Occasional contemporary marginalia. Signed in type on p.24, 'Paulinus.' Good+. This piece originally appeared under the pseudonym 'Paulinus' in the Connecticut Gazette..... More

Price: $350.00

Bidwell, Barnabas:

AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF ROGER NEWTON, JUN'R, A. M. A TUTOR OF YALE-COLLEGE, IN NEW-HAVEN, WHO DIED AUGUST 10TH, 1789, AETAT. 26; PRONOUNCED IN THE COLLEGE-CHAPEL, SEPTEMBER 2ND. BY...A TUTOR OF SAID COLLEGE. PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF MR. NEWTON'S PUPILS.

New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1789?]. 23, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern card boards and half cloth, with gum label at base of front cover. Very Good. A scarce Oration, mourning the loss of Newton, a young man of "strong and capacious understanding, a judgment sound and..... More

Price: $350.00

Bidwell, Barnabas:

AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF ROGER NEWTON, JUN'R, A. M. A TUTOR OF YALE-COLLEGE, IN NEW-HAVEN, WHO DIED AUGUST 10TH, 1789, AETAT. 26; PRONOUNCED IN THE COLLEGE-CHAPEL, SEPTEMBER 2ND. BY...A TUTOR OF SAID COLLEGE. PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF MR. NEWTON'S PUPILS.

New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1789]. 23, [1 blank] pp. Disbound with some foxing. Contemporary signature at top of page [3]: 'Mary Perkins No. 16 June 1796'. Good+. Variations on the theme that only the good die young. Bidwell says, "There is a genuine dignity in the death..... More

Price: $350.00

Bishop, Abraham:

AN ORATION ON THE EXTENT AND POWER OF POLITICAL DELUSION. DELIVERED IN NEW-HAVEN, ON THE EVENING PRECEDING THE PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT, SEPTEMBER, 1800. THE SECOND EDITION.

Newark: Pennington and Gould, 1800. 71, [1 blank] pp. Pages 61-68 are misnumbered 53-60, as issued. Disbound, with moderate spotting. Good+. One of six contemporary printings, this is the only one which does not begin with the phrase, 'Connecticut Republicanism.' Bishop was a Jeffersonian and outspoken anti- Federalist, which made..... More

Price: $250.00

Bowden, John:

A SECOND LETTER FROM...RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, NORWALK, TO THE REVEREND EZRA STILES, PRESIDENT OF YALE-COLLEGE. IN THIS LETTER, THE REVEREND DOCTOR CHAUNCY'S COMPLEAT VIEW OF EPISCOPACY UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE SECOND CENTURY IS PARTICULARLY CONSIDERED; AND SOME REMARKS ARE MADE UPON A FEW PASSAGES OF DOCTOR STILES'S ELECTION SERMON.

New-Haven: 1789. 108pp. Bound into modern marbled wrappers. Scattered light wear and fox, Good+ or so. Bowden's abstruse theological disagreements with Stiles. FIRST EDITION. Evans 21711. Trumbull 379. Not in Jenkins. More

Price: $250.00

Brooker, Albert Frederick:

1866 DAY BOOK/LEDGER OF A. F. BROOKER, DEALER IN MEATS, TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

1866. 18.5" X 13.75". Stiff plain paper wrappers [corners chipped, soiled, manuscript markings including 'A.Brooker Meat,' 'Waterbury, Conn.'], stitched. [64] pp, lined with columns, from July 21, 1866 through September, 1866. Columns contain dates, names, type of goods and cash prices paid. Most entries written in pencil, a small number..... More

Price: $125.00

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