NABOLL, Nathan. Green's Register for the State of Connecticut: With an Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1790. Calculated for the Meridian of New-London, Lat. 41.23. North. New London: T. Green & Son, [1790].
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NABOLL, Nathan. Green's Register for the State of Connecticut: With an Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1790. Calculated for the Meridian of New-London, Lat. 41.23. North. New London: T. Green & Son, [1790].
12mo (133 x 76 mm). [2], 79, [14] pp. (Browning and spotting, lacking final blank.) Sewn into contemporary wrappers without backstrip (some soiling or chipping). Provenance: Josephus E. Comstock (signature, front wrapper); Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 15 December 2005, Sale 323, lot 64).
FIRST EDITION of this rare 18th-century Connecticut register, listing corporations, tax collectors, ministers, civil officers, justices of the peace and details of the faculty at Yale. With an early printing of the United States Constitution (pp.36-48). Also including details about taxes and ferry fares. With a few leaves bound in upside down, and the final text leaf pasted to the lower wrapper. Drake Almanacs, 455; Evans 21779.
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
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