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Connecticut - History:

Erving, Henry Wood . RANDOM NOTES ON COLONIAL FURNITURE A PAPER READ BEFORE THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1922 AND NOW REVISED (signed)
Hartford 1931. Privately printed for the author in unnumbered edition of only 200 copies at the Wayside Press in Topside, Massachusetts, on handmade Glaslan paper. Lg.8vo., 60pp.,photo illustrations, brown cloth spine with brown paper-covered boards, mounted paper spine label and fine brown marbled end papers. Errata slip laid in at. ***Inscribed and signed by Erving to All the Welchers, dated April 1932. Slight buckling from paperclilp on top margins of first few pages. Near Fine, in clear acetate cover. Excellent copy. (a53506)
$220.00 (bridgeport) . THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIETY OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
New Haven 1895 Tuttle Morehouse. Sm.4to., 234pp., photo illustrations, hardcover with attractive green and gilt leaf patterned end papers. Owner signed and two owner stamps. Good, front inner hinge cracked. (a61422)
$35.00Browne, Cynthia E.. SO EXCELLENT A LAND - SAYBROOK WHEN SHE STOOD ALONE 1635-1644
Original carbon typescript for a book. Browne, a compiler of a bibliography of State Consitutional Conventions, and author of a genealogy and history of the Brown/Browne family of Granville, New York here provides a history of early Saybrook, Connecticut. There are chapters on Saybrook and the Dutch, the local Native Americans, the Fenwicks and the Connecticut Colony. Large4to., 229 leaves, in original three-ring binder. Includes extensive footnotes. Laid in are 6 newspaper articles about Saybrook and pre-colonial Connecticut history and 6 letters to/from Browne about the book. Good, a few leaves are detached. Does not appear to have ever been published. Rare. Unique. (a69613)
$550.00 (Connecticut) . THE CELEBRATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANIVERSARY OF THE PRIMITIVE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN FRANKLIN, CONNECTICUT, OCTOBER 14th, 1868 (ORIGINAL PRINTING, NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
New Haven 1869 Tuttle, Morehouse. Hardcover. Octavo, 15pp., frontis double page foldout map of Nowich West Farms, several fine steel engraved portraits with tissue guards present, original pale yellow end papers, original dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Tiny bookplate of Johann Laurence. Good plus, spine ends frayed. (a81859)
$69.00 Kagan, Myrna . VISION IN THE SKY NEW HAVEN'S EARLY YEARS 1638-1783
Hamden 1989 1st Shoe String Press. ISBN 0-208-02246-5161. Hardcover. Octavo, 161pp., small drawings, gilt decorated dark blue cloth. Fine. No jacket issued. (a82758)
$25.00