![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY SAMUEL HUNTINGTON AS GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT]. Samuel Huntington](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM48548.jpg?v=1593711747)
Norwich, Ct. Nov. 3, 1788. 1p. Foxed, paper infill to replace paper loss from removal of wax seal, not affecting text, except for one word of closing address. Backed on archival tissue. Good. Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes as Governor of Connecticut to an unidentified recipient.....
Norwich, Ct. Aug. 16, 1793. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines. Later paper strip attached to top of verso. Slight separation at some folds. Minor toning. Docketed on verso. Very good. In a half cloth clamshell case, gilt leather label. The retained copy of a letter written by Samuel Huntington, but.....
London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1782. Letterpress title and index leaf, otherwise engraved throughout. Twenty-three engraved maps on thirty-one sheets (eighteen folding, eleven double-page), all handcolored in outline. Half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, bands and ornaments tooled in gilt, leather.....
New London: Timothy Green, 1786. [2],xviii,359,[1]pp. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Hinges lightly worn, corners rubbed. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. Religious treatise in three parts, written by the Rev. Stephen Johnson, pastor of the First Church in Lyme, Connecticut. In addition to being a firm believer in.....
New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1804. 23,[1]pp. Dbd. Light tanning and soiling. Leaves loose. Good. "A Jeffersonian campaign document" - Sabin. Judd makes a claim that Connecticut is without a real constitution and thus the people of the state are at risk.
![THE PRODIGAL SON]. D. W. Kellogg, pub](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM29312.jpg?v=1593711457)
Hartford, Ct. D.W. Kellogg & Co., [nd, ca. 1835]. Four lithographed sheets, 14 x 19 inches, each with an image 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Each with some wear and small tears around the edges, light creasing and foxing. Good. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. These lithographs.....
New York. 1809. Three volumes. [10],330; [6],309; [6],312pp. Later 19th-century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, raised bands. Ex-lib. copy, with labels and bookplates. Edges and corners rubbed. Leaves tanned, some foxing. Lower forecorner of first three leaves in volume one torn with some loss to a few words in.....
[New Haven. 1894]. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled, a few small tears. Very good. Almanac and patent medicine catalog, published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar, the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's.....
[New Haven. 1896]. 32pp. Original color pictorial wrappers. Lightly soiled. Very good plus. Almanac and patent medicine catalog, published by the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. of New Haven. Though it does contain an almanac calendar, the publication is primarily comprised of advertisements and testimonials about the company's products. The Kickapoo.....
New York. 1801. 62,[3]pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing. Tanned. Contemporary ink signature to titlepage. Good. The three-page appendix (not noted in Shaw & Shoemaker) lists the number of collectors, naval officers, surveyors, supervisors, district attorneys and marshals, listed by state and district, and noting which are Federalists and which are Republicans.....
New Haven: Printed by James Parker, and Company, 1756. 48,xv pp. Modern half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Titlepage reinforced in gutter, and with a small tear in lower outer corner. Foxing. Good. The appendix is a biographical memoir of Elisha Williams, rector of Yale and political and military leader.....
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, [ 2001]. xvii,[3],354,[2]pp. including numerous facsimiles. Oblong folio. Original black cloth. As new. In original pictorial dust jacket. Remarkably, the first comprehensive "carto-bibliography" of New England from 1530 to 1800. Lists approximately eight hundred maps, over half of which are illustrated. Many entries with additional.....
New Haven: Thomas H. Pease, 1855. 217pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, with some red rot residue. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional blind and ink stamps on titlepage. Scattered foxing, heavier to initial and final leaves. Good. "Clark was apparently infatuated with a......
New Haven. 1831. Engraved titlepage and twenty-one handcolored maps. Folio. Original red three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities worn. Light dampstaining and scattered foxing, but contents generally quite bright. Very good. Second edition of this atlas by noted geographer Jedidiah Morse, with corrections by N. & S.S. Jocelyn. Jedidiah Morse.....
Washington. 1820. 43pp. Contemporary paper wrappers. Spine heavily chipped. Minor dampstaining to fore edge. Light scattered foxing. About very good. Otis's defense of the Hartford Convention, the convention during the War of 1812 where New England Federalists met to discuss secession and their grievances about the war. Otis, a representative.....
Bridgeport, Ct. [ca. 1880]. [4]pp. plus fourteen pages of similar, related ephemera. Old fold lines. A few small tears at edges. Minor soiling to a few of the ephemera items. Good. An interesting group of ephemera printed by the architectural firm Palliser, Palliser & Co., around 1880. Publications featured include.....
![AGENT'S SAMPLE BOOK, FROM E.H. PARDEE & CO., MONTOWESE, CONN. [cover title]. E. H. Pardee, Co](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM46985.jpg?v=1593711709)
[Montowese. ca. 1885]. Fourteen leaves containing fifty sample cards. Printed boards with cloth spine. Lower corners chipped, front cover creased, minor soiling. Internally clean. Very good. A salesman's sample book for chromolithographic greeting and sentiment cards popular in the Victorian era. E.H. Pardee was one of several companies in Connecticut.....
Lancaster. 1804. 34pp. Dbd. Tanned. Crisp and very good, untrimmed. Patterson's efforts against the Connecticut claimants, i.e. the Susquehanna Company, beginning in 1769, are documented in this excellent account of the Yankee- Pennamite wars.
Hartford: Printed and Published by William E. Marsh, 1819. vii,[1],389,[1]pp. plus two folding maps and two plates. The Connecticut map is in facsimile. Modern half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Even tanning. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Good. First and only edition of this comprehensive gazetteer of Connecticut and Rhode.....
[Washington. 1802]. 7pp. on folded folio sheet. Tanned. Very good, untrimmed. A U.S. House Committee rules on a longstanding dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut over land in the Susquehanna claim. The report summarizes the twenty-year history of the dispute over lands in Luzerne County, Pa., west of Wilkes Barre and.....
Philadelphia: 1976. [4],x,[1],292pp. including profuse illustrations. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Pictorial endpapers. Near fine. A catalog of a joint bicentennial exhibition by the institutions listed in the title. The noted learned societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Library Company of Pennsylvania united and pledged.....
Charleston; New Haven; New York. 1822, 1827. Three volumes in two. 108; 132; 203,[1]pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light tanning and foxing. About very good. A rare and complete set of these collections of poetry and essays by a transplanted northerner, inspired by the example of Washington Irving. These early literary works.....
Hartford: Thomas Green, [ 1767]. 28pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. 1 x 1-inch piece missing from upper inner corner of front wrapper, smaller piece missing from lower inner corner. Trimmed close at head of titlepage. Overall internally clean. Contemporary ownership inscription on first text leaf, additional inscription on rear wrapper. Nice.....
Danbury: Brothers Douglas and Ely, 1791. 20pp. Stitched as issued. Light wear. Last few leaves lightly dampstained. Very good. Rare Freemasonry sermon printed in Danbury, Connecticut. An unusual imprint, and a rare piece - OCLC locates only three copies, at the American Antiquarian Society, the Connecticut State Library, and Eastern.....
![MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A CAMPING TRIP IN THE ONTARIO WILDERNESS]. Perry, Henry Eldridge, Canada](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55081.jpg?v=1593711978)
[Ontario, Canada. July 19 - September 10, 1911]. [108]pp., approximately 13,000 words overall. Oblong 12mo. Original limp burgundy calf. Some rubbing to covers, chipping to extremities. Minor tanning, a few ink smudges. Very good overall. An entertaining diary chronicling a seven-week camping and canoeing trip in the Ontario wilderness by.....
