Middletown: C.H. Pelton, 1837. 32pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. A declaration of sentiments expressed by the Anti-Slavery Society of Meriden, Connecticut to their fellow citizens, expressing their views on slavery and abolition in the hope of persuading their fellows to feel likewise. This second edition was published.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Each act has a separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
New Haven: Re-printed and Sold by James Parker and Company, [1762]. [24]pp. Stitched. First and last pages soiled. Upper outer corner of first two leaves torn, affecting approximately twenty-five characters. Text leaves soiled. Leaves unevenly trimmed, affecting final line of text on the recto of the penultimate leaf. Overall, a......
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1793. [3]-38pp. Lacks half-title. Modern half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Wear and chipping to edges of titlepage, some losses, repaired with tissue, not affecting text. Light wear to edges of text leaves, minor foxing. Good. Election sermon preached at Hartford by Charles Backus, minister at.....
Boston: Joseph Greenleaf, 1807. xv,[3],270pp. Contemporary calf, ornate gilt spine, gilt-tooling on edges of binding. Rubbed and scuffed, spine lightly chipped. Foxed. Else very good, with the ownership signature of Samuel Putnam Waldo on the front free endpaper. First American edition and the first work by Bacon to be published.....
[Philadelphia: William Duane, 1801]. 70pp. Dbd. Untrimmed. Two leaves with tape repaired tears. Good. No titlepage. This appears to be the second American edition, after the first Philadelphia edition of 1799. The entry of Howes does not describe this issue, which may have been issued without a titlepage, as is.....
New York. [1901]. Two volumes: [4],xvi,[7]-455; xx,[2],[457]- 886pp., including a double-page map and numerous illustrations. Frontis. in first volume. Original gilt pictorial red cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Hinges weak. Spines faded and worn at the ends. Internally very clean and tightly bound. Very good. "One of the best of the.....
Danbury. [1799]. 36pp. including a woodcut on the second page. Stitched. Title and last pages soiled, dampstain on top left corner of several leaves; not affecting text. Text tanned. Good. Untrimmed. An early Connecticut almanac with many anecdotes and jokes. Notable is an anecdote about Voltaire's punishment for writing an.....
Petersburg, Va: Fenn & Owen, 1892. [2],xxiv,335,[5]pp. including two pages of errata, plus frontispiece, twenty plates, and three maps (two folding). Original grey pictorial cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit faded and rubbed, corners and spine ends worn. Front blank leaf coming loose. Internally quite clean except for tanning where.....
New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [ 1789]. 23pp. Dbd. Tanning and light foxing. Very good. A funeral oration given for a late 18th- century Yale tutor, delivered by Barnabas Bidwell, author and later Massachusetts attorney general and Congressional representative. With particular address to Newton's students, whom he warns not.....
Catskill: Mackay Croswell, 1796. 115pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Lightly toned. Very good. Bidwell defends Connecticut's claim to the contested lands in the Wyoming Valley, which were also claimed by Pennsylvania. This pamphlet was "especially worthwhile for its discussion of the decision by.....
New Haven. 1824. 44pp. Stitched as issued; remnants of later paper wrapper along spine edge. Light soiling and foxing. Good. Remarks against Dr. Griffiths and educational and Bible societies, which the author feels are a bleed on monies that should be given to more useful outlets for helping the poor.....
Simsbury, Ct. 1923. 180pp. plus seven halftone plates. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper previously detached and reaffixed with tape, spine somewhat chipped, corners worn. Occasional foxing. Good plus. An account of a transcontinental trip accomplished with a single horse and buggy. The author set out to prove that he had.....
Hartford: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, 1845. 111pp., printed in double columns, plus twenty-seven plates and twenty-seven facsimiles, including frontis. Folio. Publishers' half black morocco with brown cloth boards, gilt pictorial front board, blindstamped pictorial rear board, spine gilt, t.e.g., skillfully rebacked retaining original backstrip, corners renewed with black buckram. Boards.....
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1789. 15pp. Dbd. Tanned, some soiling. Final leaf torn with no loss. Good. Anna Strong died March 22, 1789, aged 30 years.
Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889. [2],47,11pp. plus errata slip. Folio. Original drab printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Front cover detached. Light wear and chipping to covers. Second leaf torn a bit in margin at staples. Good. A history of the Connecticut Cavalry in the Civil War, complete with the.....
New York. 1801. 69pp. plus advertisement. Dbd., later staples. Contemporary signature on titlepage, minor spotting to first and last leaves, light occasional foxing. Good. An important Jefferson item. The body of this pamphlet is an attack on Jefferson for his policy of removing Federalists from office after his inauguration, by.....
New Haven: Printed by T. & S. Green, 1794. [2],16,[1]pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Early ink signature on titlepage, a few small ink notes in text. Very good, untrimmed. Lists funds contributed by various towns in Connecticut for use of missionaries in New York west as far as the.....
Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1799. 80pp. Gathered signatures, stitched, original rear wrapper present. Tanned. A good copy in original state, untrimmed. A thorough examination of the history and right of title to these lands, which was being contested between New York and Connecticut for many years preceding this.....
New London: Printed by Timothy Green:, 1784-1795. 8,6,[2],265,267-394,399-464,487-499pp. Folio. Contemporary sheep. Sheep scuffed and worn, joints tender. Contemporary ink inscription on front cover: "Marvin Wait's Book." Front free endpaper detached. Other endpapers excised. Contemporary ink inscriptions and annotations throughout. Several clippings affixed to pastedowns and rear endpaper (several significantly darkened.....
New Haven: J.H. Benham, 1851. [3],xxiv,[17]-400,[3]pp. (including pastedowns) plus one plate. Publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Hinges cracked. Cloth moderately worn. Light stains and foxing in outer leaves, toning throughout. Ex-lib., with institutional plate on titlepage. Bookseller's inkstamp and bookplates of John J. Ford, Jr., and Benjamin DeForest.....
[Mainly Waterbury, Ct. 1892-1951]. Approximately 1,550 sepia-toned or black-and- white photographs, most between 2 x 4 inches and 4 x 6 inches (a handful slightly smaller, some slightly larger), a handful of panoramas, and about ten examples 8 x 10 inches. One cloth photograph album, two paperbound photo albums, numerous.....
