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 of..... More
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
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
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
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
New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, [1770]. 32pp, untrimmed and stitched with the half title. Toned, moderately spotted at the last several leaves. Good+. President Daggett's Sermon is from Galatians IV. 19, a discussion of the Apostle Paul, who "had been the principal instrument in spreading and planting..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1805. 30pp, but lacking the half title. Untrimmed, removed, Good+. Dwight's sermon is prefaced by a denial that it was a response to the widely publicized Hamilton-Burr duel. "Whatever may be thought of a late encounter, which has engrossed the attention of this country, it is..... More
New York: Childs and Swaine, 1794. 53, [4], 66-183, [1] pp [as issued]. Stitched, untrimmed, lightly foxed, Very Good. An entirely unsophisticated copy. "In this pastoral poem is introduced a vivid description of the burning of Fairfield by the British, in 1779." Church. "In form imitative of eighteenth-century English poets..... More
New Haven: George Bunce, 1798. 95pp, with the half title. Dsbound. Light browning. Ink signatures, "Stephen Bailey" and "Winthrop Bailey," on half title. Very Good. This pamphlet was reprinted in England twice in the next six years. President Dwight takes on Hume, Hobbes, Tindal, Lord Shaftesbury, and other unbelievers. FIRST..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1791. 42pp, lacks the half title. Disbound. Closed tears through title and line of text on verso [no text loss], scattered foxing, small mold spots on first six leaves, hence Good only. Dwight was "the dominant figure in the established order of Connecticut" during his presidency..... More
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New York: George Bunce, 1794. 78pp, stitched. A few margins spotted, else Very Good. Dwight became President of Yale in the next year, and was "the dominant figure in the established order of Connecticut." DAB, which cites this item as one which sets forth "his religious, social, and political views."..... More
New Haven: Daniel Bowen. 1786. 22pp, lacking the final blank. Bound in modern marbled boards and half leather, with gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover. Very Good. "Amelia Stiles' Book" inscribed at base of page 22. Amelia was President Ezra Stiles' daughter. Hitchcock dedicates his scarce Oration to the parents..... More
New Haven: Printed by Hezekiah Howe, 1831. 48pp. Disbound, a bit of foxing. Good+. Chancellor Kent treats the constitutional and legal history of Connecticut, and the history of Yale College and its Phi Beta Kappa Society. AI 7828 [5]. Not in Cohen. More
[New York: P.A. Mesier's Lith., 28 Wall St. c. mid-19th century]. Oblong engraved map, 22" x 30." Depicting Willow Street and Marion Street, New Haven, Connecticut, bounded by Dixwell Avenue and Canal Street. With inset of New Haven's "Public Square" and "Yale College." Old folds with fold splits. Good or..... More
[New Haven? 1829?]. Broadside, 9" x 11". Satirical poem printed within an ornamental border, two columns, untrimmed. Light edgewear, some dustsoiling at the extremities, else Very Good. The poem begins, "Let others prate about their bear and fiddle, And break their short still tales off in the middle..." A satirical..... More
Hartford: Printed by Green & Watson, 1770. Small 4to. 24pp, with the half title. Later plain brown wrappers [light dustsoiling and wear], stitched. Lightly tanned, scattered foxing, light wear. Some old manuscript notations and underscoring in ink. Good+. Half title inscription, 'From Miss Clarissa Lord Pitkin' and 'Geo. Allen's- 1865.'..... More
New Haven: Hamlen, 1841. 48pp, Disbound, light scattered foxing. Very Good. Donald Grant Mitchell is Ik Marvel, who graduated from Yale in 1841 and was an editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. This piece, his first published work [other than whatever of his may have appeared in the Literary Magazine]..... More
New Haven: T & S Green [, 1796]. 23, [1 blank] pp Disbound [a bit of loosening] Lightly tanned, inconspicuous release stamp on last blank Good+ to Very Good Stebbins, who would spend his career in Maine as a judge and leading citizen, discusses "some of the branches of education..... More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin [, 1784]. 12 leaves (as issued) Stitched, with spine reinforced Lightly tanned, Very Good With an essay on the star Sirius, and some mathematical oddities FIRST EDITION Drake 370 Trumbull 85 Evans 18798. More
Hartford: Printed and Sold by Hudson and Goodwin, [1779]. 12mo. [24]pp. Stitched. Toned, untrimmed, some foxing, bit of corner wear affecting four or five letters. Good+. A scarce Revolutionary-era Connecticut almanac, with "A Geographical Description of the State of Connecticut." Evans 16538. Drake 330. Trumbull 75. NAIP w025563 [9]... More
Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, [1780]. 12mo. [24]pp. Stitched. Bit of corner wear, but text retained. Good+. A rare Revolutionary-era Connecticut almanac. NAIP locates it only at the American Antiquarian Society, the New York State Library, and Brigham Young University. NAIP notes two states of gathering A: this one..... More
1852. Folio broadside deed, printed and completed in manuscript, conveying real estate by quitclaim deed to Henry White of New Haven, Connecticut. Signed in ink by Woolsey, Baird, and Terry, who at this time was Clerk of the Superior Court and an attorney. With seal. Very Good. More
[New Haven, CT. 6-1/4" x 8-1/4". [107] manuscript pages, fourteen engraved portraits of faculty and clergy and four views of Yale tipped in. Bound in original half calf [cloth boards detached and worn, lacking backstrip]. First gathering a bit loose but holding, one tipped-in portrait page loose. Title in ink..... More
New Haven: Stanley & Chapin, Printers, 1841. Original printed wrappers, with a woodcut view of the medical school building [repeated on the title page]. Stitched. 7, [1 blank] pp. 'Duplicate' rubberstamp on blank portion of front wrapper, plain rear wrapper addressed to Dr. Simeon Shurtleff of Simsbury. Light spotting and..... More
New Haven: Woodward & Carrington, Printers, 1839. 8pp, stitched. Title page with a woodcut view of the medical school building. Wrappers absent, lightly spotted, Good+. The faculty included Benjamin Silliman as professor of chemistry. The course of study, including dissections, is explained, with fees, degrees awarded, the "organization of the..... More