Dark purplish cloth with faded gilt titles on sunned spine. Some ghosts of glass or bottle rings on front and light wear to extremeties. Book is square with a secure binding. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 451 +Index pages; This is Volume IV of the Society's collected papers. The article of most interest is the text of a speech by Simon Baldwin on "The Captives of the Amistad." Other articles deal with people and places in and around New Haven as well as historical events beginnning in Colonial times.