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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, by..... 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

Item #37447 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, ELIJAH ROBINSON OF STAFFORD & JAMES...

[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, Hartford..... More

Price: $300.00

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 for..... 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 23..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #20025 DOCTOR WATTS'S IMITATION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. BY...TO...

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+ The first item..... More

Price: $375.00

Item #24998 LEGAL PROVISION RESPECTING THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN FACTORIES, &C;...

[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

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

Item #19709 VISIBLE SAINTS LAWFUL RIGHT TO COMMUNION IN CHRISTIAN SACRAMENTS, VINDICATED. (IN WAY...

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 Connecticut..... 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, February..... 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 mature..... 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 of..... 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

Brown, Solyman:

SECOND ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY.

New Haven: 1818. 22, (2) pp. Stitched, untrimmed, original printed wrappers with wrapper title [as issued]. Light wear, foxed. Rear wrap advertises the bookstore of J. Babcock & Son, on Church Street in New Haven. Very Good. Brown, a native of Litchfield County, Connecticut, claims Lyman Beecher's lies and malice..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #38006 AN ORATION, SPOKEN AT HARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF...

Brown, William:

AN ORATION, SPOKEN AT HARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, JULY 4TH, A.D. 1799.

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched and untrimmed. Scattered foxing and spotting. Early ownership signature at head of title [loss of letter due to small tear]. Good+. A Connecticut Federalist attacks the French Revolution and the "utter depravity" of its leaders, who would foment a slave..... More

Price: $500.00

[Buttre, John Chester]:

GOVERNORS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES, 1862.

Boston: B.B. Russell, 515 Washington St.; Engraved by J.C. Buttre, 48 Franklin St., New York, 1862. Lithograph, 11" x 15". Six uncolored oval portraits of the New England Governors in 1862 arranged around an engraving of the Bunker Hill Monument: Israel Washburn, Jr., Maine; Nathaniel S. Berry, New Hampshire; Frederick..... More

Price: $375.00

Cedar Point Yacht Club:

CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, SAILING REGULATIONS, ETC., OF THE CEDAR POINT YACHT CLUB. ORGANIZED APRIL 30, 1887. STATION, SAUGATUCK, CONN.

New York: Collins & Sesnon, 1889. Original cloth [discolored at bottom half inch of each color], gilt-stamped title on front cover. [2], 25, [1 blank] pp. Inner hinges cracked, else Very Good. Also listing the Fleet and Members. More

Price: $85.00

Item #36094 HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF THE ELEPHANT. WITH BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS. Children's Book

[Children's Book]:

HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF THE ELEPHANT. WITH BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, [@1830]. Original printed wrappers [blank margins reinforced, repair to lower corner of rear wrapper, not affecting text or image]. Light toning, stitched, 16pp. Seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. Inner rear wrapper advertises the publisher's offerings. Good+. "The largest, the..... More

Price: $175.00

Clark, A.H.:

A COMPLETE ROSTER OF COLONEL DAVID WATERBURY JR. 'S REGIMENT OF CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. THE FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY RESPONDING TO A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DEFENCE OF NEW YORK CITY AGAINST THE BRITISH IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PRINTED FROM MANUSCRIPT RECORDS IN THE POSSISSION OF THE PUBLISHER, WITH NOTES, COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC HISTORICAL SOURCES.

New York: A.S. Clark, 1897. Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers. 20pp. Stapled as issued. Wraps dirty with some wear, else Very Good. More

Price: $30.00

Colt, Samuel:

REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, TRANSMITTING ...COPIES OF REPORTS MADE BY A BOARD OF NAVY OFFICERS ON COLT'S IMPROVED REPEATING FIRE-ARMS.

26th Cong., 2d Sess. SD196. 1841. 18p, Disbound, minor foxing. Very Good. On the "testing of Colt's patent carbines and pistols." FIRST EDITION. More

Price: $75.00

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