Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-15
DR.. CONLAND'S LIBRARY
SALE TOOK PLACE IN NEW YORK
LAST WEEK.
Excellent Prices Brought for Many of
the Volumes-Hishest Price Paid for
the Original Manuscript of Or.
Stearns's American Dispensatory.

tne NOluFTlCS--TfiyHSoN y 'iSS S'e 80
the Original Manuscript of Or.
Stearns's American Dispensatory.
one of the most interesting sales OF
the New York book auction season,
was held in the rooms of the Ander-
son Auction Co. last Thursday and
Friday. The library was most un-
usual collection of books relating to
American history and literature being
specially rich In Vermont material
Quite a number of the more important
lots were in poor condition else the
high prlces would surely have been
much higher. II had been whispered
in New England literary circles that
the sale would be a complete failure
as II was said that selling New Eng
land books in New York was like
Sending Goals to Newcastle but the
high average of prices proved this
theory TO be incorrect.
Appended are a few Of the lots Sc
lected at random from this interesting
collection: The Natural and Political
History OF Vermont by Ira Allen,
tlsJNl. slDs amer lAhil 4hilAAs ShA t1Ni -
by John Jones, (77O, IS; American
Book Prices current (S vols), s62;
Boston Gazette. tNewspaper), Gec. 10,
I7751, $3.50; Boston Independent,
Newspaper. Jan. 25. 17sD, $3.50;
Broadside, Glorious News! Boston
I7S6) AN Act for Granting Certain
Stamp Duties, the bells in all the
churches were set Ringing etc,
Printed for the benefit OF the Public,
1766). s22; Broadside. Letters from
Abraham Ten Brock with letters of
&he people sitting themselves inhabi-
t4nts OF the New Hampshire grants,
etc, ,Ni7TD. s26. This is an interest
ing memento of the long conflict be-
tween thN> adherents of the New York
and New Hampshire grants, who de
clared that the district known as the
New Hampshire> grants were pro-
claimed separata and independent
state and was called New Connecticut,
alias Vermont" Broadside, last words
and dying speech of Roberr>Y Young, who
was executed at Worcester Q779)
with quaint woodcut New 1ondon
(circa l779). s12.50; Broadside, Civ
ing an account of the murder OF the
family of Samuel Wells by Indians
with crudely colored woodcuts OF In
dians, (circa 1879, sS1; Buckingham's
History Of Newspaper Literature e.
vols.) $3.50; Hawthorne's Scarlet Let
ter uS50). sl4: Hutchinson's History
of Massachusetts e vols, 1880, s27;
The Pioneer. literary and Critical
agaxne, (vol / No, 2, 1s4s), edited by
JameS Russell Lowell, $40; Massachu-
setts Magazine. (179l, imperfecn, $lQi
Various Massachusetts, newspapers
from 1901 to 1870 (not complete or con-
secutiye) S33.25: New Hampshire Far
mer's Cabinet 1S14-15 mot perfecD,
$3.50; Miscellaneous Remarks on the
Proceedings of the state of New YORK
against the state of Vermont, by Ira
Allen. Portrait (circa 1850 inserted
In paper (some PIP stainedD Hartford.
Printed for Hannah Watson near the
Great Bridge (i777), $40; Official Rec
ord kept by Ferris Pell (agent appoint
ed by Dewitt Clinton) liz negotiating
with the United States Government for
the reimbursement of all money and
other expenditures made by the state
of New York in the War of 1872, sl7;
Rhode Island Broadsides (2) attacking
Thomas Wilson Dorr and his Political
proceedings (circa 1S42), s10 Rural
Magazine, or Vermont Repository, (vol.
l only), s14.50.
The original manuscript of Samuel
Stearns's North American DISPENSE
tory written In his autograph. Unfor-
tunately some of the leaves had been
torn out and others scribbled on by
children. and generally 1t was in poor
condition. This was one of the most
items in the sale and Is
valuable relic of one of Americas early
and of a noted and most
remarkable character. Even in this
poor condition it brought $3.50; The
Contrast by Royal Tyler, (l7ss), $S2.
Some leaves were fosced and 1t was
cut copy. An uncut copy of the same
book was sold in the Mckee collection
for sl20. s32 is one of the highest
prices on record for a cut copy one
of the most interesting features about
this famous comedy is that ii is the
first comedy written by any American
and performed on an American Stage.
The Algerine Captive by Royal Tyler,
Walpole, n. H., Q797, vols.), So6
This is by a long way the highest price
ever paid for this book The only copy
on record being the Deane copy that
was sold in Boston for $3.50 The
Deane copy was a cut copy the Con-
land copy uncut: An address of the
Council of Censors to the People of
Vermont, (32 pages, paper, 1900 SO;
Statutes of the state of Vermont, Q7SD
500: Acts and Laws of the General
Assembly of the Representatives of the
Freemen of the state of Vermont Qm-
perfect 1779), sS Acts and Laws of the
State of Vermont, G795 poor copy),
s24: Acts and Laws of the State of
Vermont, Q799. poor copy, $50; Acts
and laws of Vermont 1897 to 1884, mot
some imperfect and in
poor condition), s54; Federal Galaxy
Brattleboro newspapers 1889, SlI;
The Post Boy and Vermont and New
Hampshire Federal Courier, QsO5, inn
perfect), 50; etc, etc. one of the most
pleasing features of the sale was the
interest shown by the New England
libraries. the Vermont State library, the
New Hampshire State library and the
Boston library being represented.