CONDITIONS OF SALE.

1. The highest bidder to be the buyer, and if any dispute arise betwen two or more bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold.

2. The purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to pay down twenty-five per cent. on the dollar in part payment, or the whole of the purchase-money, if required, in default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.

3. The Lots to be taken away at the buyer's expense and risk within three days from the conclusion of the sale, and the remainder of the purchase-money to be absolutely paid, or otherwise settled for to the satisfaction of the vendors, on or before delivery: in default of which Messrs. GEO. A. LEAVITT & Co. will not hold themselves responsible, if the Lots be lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser.

4. In preparing the Catalogue, care has been taken to make the description of every book full and accurate, and every deficiency and imperfection which was discovered has been noted: but the sale of any Volume or Lot is not to be set aside on account of any error in the description. The books will be exposed for public exhibition one or more days, and will be sold just as they are without recourse.

5. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery and inconvenience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can, on any account, be removed during the sale.

6. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private sale, without further notice, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the defaulter at this sale, together with all charges attending the same. This condition is without prejudice to the right of the Auctioneers to enforce the contract made at this sale, without such re-sale, if they think fit.

GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO.

OF THE

American Library

OF THE LATE

MR. GEORGE BRINLEY

OF HARTFORD CONN.

PART II.

ADDENDA TO PART I.

THE MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN STATES

NEW YORK TO GEORGIA

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

WASHINGTONIANA

INCLUDING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF

FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS AND IMPRINTS
BOOKS BY AND RELATING TO THE QUAKERS
AND BOOKS PRINTED IN PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK

BEFORE 1750

HARTFORD

PRESS OF THE CASE LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY

1880

PREFACE.

When the First Part of this Catalogue was issued, a year ago, the compiler believed that the whole library could be conveniently disposed of in three sales, not exceeding a week each. The number of volumes and titles is found to be greater than was supposed, and it has seemed best to divide the catalogue into four parts.

The Second Part, now presented, comprises 1714 lots, and more than 3000 titles. These include the books and pamphlets relating to the Middle States; the Southern States, from Maryland to Georgia — the youngest of the Thirteen Colonies; the American Revolution; Washingtoniana; and such other special collections as naturally come within the range indicated.

The collection relating to the Middle Colonies -- and especially, the series of books printed in Philadelphia and New York before 1750 - will be found not less remarkable than that of early New England imprints in the First Part of the Catalogue. It is needless to point out, in a prefatory note, the rarities which readers will not be long in discovering for themselves; but, chiefly for convenience of reference, a list of some of the most important works is appended, and to a few of these the compiler may be allowed to direct special attention.

In First Works, the collection is wonderfully rich. It includes (No. 3367) the First work of the First printer in the Middle Colonies William Bradford's Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense, Philadelphia, 1685; the First book printed in New York (3444); the First American edition of the Book of Common Prayer (3450); the First Map engraved in New York (3446); the First book known to have been printed in Delaware (3648); probably, the First two books printed in Maryland (3667, 3672: see also, 3670, 3658); and the First two of Virginia (3694, 3818); the First book, the Laws excepted, printed in the Carolinas, or south of Virginia (3886); an imprint of the First press and the First printer in Georgia (3929); the First printed collections of the Laws of New York (3444), Delaware (3648), and Virginia, from an American press (3694); etc.

Of the productions of William Bradford's press, in Philadelphia and New York, forty-five will be found in the Catalogue, seventeen of which were printed before 1700. Four others bear the rare imprint of William and Andrew Bradford: and Andrew Bradford's press in Philadelphia is represented by eleven of its issues. There are twelve works printed by REYNIER JANSEN, three of which were published in 1699, the first year of the re-establishment of a press in Philadelphia (see No. 3452); thirteen printed by SAMUEL KEIMER; and one with the imprint of DAVID HARRY. Of the second press in New York, JoHN PETER ZENGER'S, there are twelve specimens, including several of his earliest and rarest works; one, with the exceptionally rare imprint of J. ZenGER Fun. (3440), and two with that of the Widow Catharine Zenger (3441, 3442). A glance through the pages of the catalogue is enough to show how large a proportion it comprises of the productions of the presses of James Parker, Henry De Foreest, Wm. Weyman, Hugh Gaine, John Holt, and James Rivington, of New York,-and of the third William Bradford, and Thomas Bradford, Anthony Armbruster, James Chattin, Andrew Steuart, William Dunlap, Robert Bell, and other ante-revolutionary printers of Philadelphia.

The collection of the writings of FRANKLIN, books and pamphlets printed by him and his partners, and other Frankliniana, is the largest that has ever been offered in a single catalogue, and, probably, the largest ever gathered in a private library. It comprises more than 200 imprints, in 168 lots. Many of these are of remarkable rarity, and several are rendered unique, by Franklin's autograph notes: see Nos. 3203, 3292, 3323, and, above all, the five Tracts on the Stamp Act and Taxation of the Colonies, Nos. 3218-3222. Especially noteworthy are Sewel's History of the Quakers (3315), the volume on which Franklin and Meredith worked with Keimer in 1728; the first two volumes of the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, 1728-30, published, after No 40, by Franklin and Meredith (3449); and John Meredith's "Short Discourse" (3197), one of the first works of Franklin's press; "Some Observations" by Franklin in defence of Mr. Hemphill (3197), a tract so rare that Mr. Sparks was unable to find a single copy; the "Constitutions of the Free Masons," with twenty-five pages of manuscript, in Franklin's autograph, bound in; Arndt's "Wahre Christenthum," with the imprint of Franklin and Boehm (3272); Renouard's own copy of his elegant edition of Franklin's "Opuscules" (3225); and— among the Frankliniana the satirical "Epitaph on a certain Great

Man" (3267).

Mr. Brinley, like Heber, liked to have duplicates of good books. Four copies of the translation of the Cato Major, printed by Franklin -three of which are exceptionally fine-will be found in this Cata