Bronson’s 1865 Work on Connecticut Currency & Coinage

Bronson, Henry. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CONNECTICUT CURRENCY, CONTINENTAL MONEY, AND THE FINANCES OF THE REVOLUTION. BY HENRY BRONSON, M. D. READ NOVEMBER 30TH, 1863, AND AFTERWARD. Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Volume I (New Haven, 1865). 8vo, later gray cloth, gilt. (4), 15, (1), 170; (2), iv, 192 pages [final pagination is Bronson]; tables. Fine. Bronson’s pioneering work comprises the second half of the Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, the first half of which consists of several monographs on early Connecticut history. Quite scarce. Not in the Fuld library sales. An historian and physician, Dr. Henry Bronson (1804–93) largely devoted his later years to economic study and historical research. His history of the currency of Connecticut is probably the most notable of several important studies pertaining to the history of his native state. Although largely devoted to paper currency topics, one chapter describes The Massachusetts Coinage of 1652 and a later chapter is entitled First United States Coinage. Connecticut Coppers. Not in Attinelli. Clain-Stefanelli 13327. Davis 147. Sigler 338. Ex Charles Davis sale of October 28, 2006, lot 197.