Leavitt, Strebeigh: LIBRARY OF J. H. V. Arnold. GEO. A. LEAVITT & CO., AUCTIONEERS. NEW YORK. 1879, 18790416,

Auction Details

Auction Date
April 16, 1879 - April 16, 1879
Page Size: 3451 items in 35 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2715 SELBY (CHARLES, the Comedian) MAXIMUMS and SPECIMENTS of WILLIAM MUGGINS London

1846

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2716 SERVIEZ (M. DE) ROMAN EMPRESSES; or, the Lives and Secret Intrigues of the Wives of the Twelve Caesars London

1752

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2717 SEWARD (MISS) ANECDOTES of DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, chiefly of the Last and Two Preceding Centuries Lond.

1804

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2718 SEWARD (ANNA) LIFE OF DR. ERASMUS DARWIN London

1804

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2719 SEWARD (W. H.) SEWARD (W. H.) LIFE of New York

1855

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2720 SEWARD (W. H.) TRAVELS ROUND THE WORLD New York

1873

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2721 SEWELL (R. K.) SKETCHES OF ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida New York

1848

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2722 SEYER (SAMUEL) MEMOIRS OF BRISTOL and its Neighbourhood, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time Bristol

1821

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2723 SEYMOUR. HUMOUROUS SKETCHES London

1866

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2724 [SEYMOUR (ROBERT)] NEW READINGS of Old Authors London

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2725 R. B. Peake SEYMOUR. SNOBSON'S SEASONS: being Annals of Cockney Sports London

1846

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2726 J. O. Halliwell SHAKESPEARE. A NEW BOKE ABOUT SHAKESPEARE and Stratford-on-Avon London

1850

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2727 HOLMES (NATHANIEL) SHAKESPEARE. AUTHORSHIP OF SHAKESPEARE New York

1867

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2728 SHAKESPEARE'S AUTOGRAPH: 4,000 Ways of Spelling the Name Phila.

1869

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2729 BECKET (ANDREW) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE'S HIMSELF AGAIN; or, the Language of the Poet asserted London

1815

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2730 BOADEN (JAS.) SHAKESPEARE PORTRAITS. INQUIRY into the Authenticity of various Pictures and Prints which have been offered as Portraits of Shakespeare London

1824

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2731 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. BOYDELL'S GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare London

1802

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2732 SHAKESPEARIANA. CATALOGUE of all the Books, Pamphlets, etc. London

1827

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2733 [CHALMERS (GEO)] SHAKESPEARE. APOLOGY for the Believers in the Shakespeare Papers London

1797

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2734 COLLIER (J. PAYNE) SHAKESPEARE. MEMOIRS of the PRINCIPAL ACTORS in the Plays of Shakespeare London

1846

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2735 CONOLLY (JOHN) SHAKESPEARE. A STUDY OF HAMLET London

1863

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2736 SHAKESPEARE CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, and EXPLANATORY NOTES on Shakespeare London

1754

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2737 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. DRAMATIC WORKS, with Life New York

1847

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2738 DOUCE (FRANCIS) SHAKESPEARE. ILLUSTRATIONS of SHAKESPEARE and of Ancient Manners London

1807

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2739 SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM). DRAMATIC WORKS Phila.

1852

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2740 FARREN (GEORGE) SHAKESPEARE. ESSAYS on the Varieties in Mania Lon.

1833

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2741 SHAKESPEARE GALLERY. CATALOGUE of the Paintings (Boydell's) [Lond.]

[1790]

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2742 SHAKESPEARE GALLERY of Engravings London

1860

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2743 GRAVES (H. M.) SHAKESPEARE. ESSAYS on the Genius of Shakespeare... London

1826

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2744 GREEN (CHARLES FREDERICK) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE'S CRAB-TREE London

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2745 HACKETT (JAS. H.) SHAKESPEARE. NOTES, CRITICISMS, and Correspondence upon Shakespeare's Plays and Actors New York

1863

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2746 HACKETT (JAS. H.) SHAKESPEARE. NOTES AND COMMENTS upon Certain Plays and Actors of Shakespeare New York

1863

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2747 HALLIWELL (J. O.) SHAKESPEARE. LIFE of William Shakespeare London

1848

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2748 HALLIWELL (J. O.) SHAKESPEARE. LIFE of William Shakespeare London

1848

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2749 HALLIWELL (JAMES O.) SHAKESPEARE. THE CHARACTER OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF London

1841

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2750 SHAKESPEARE. HARDING'S SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATED by Portraits and Views London

1793

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2751 SHAKESPEARE'S HEAD IN COVENT GARDEN. Memoirs of London

1755

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2752 HERAUD (JOHN A.) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE: his Inner Life, as Intimated in his Works London

1865

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2753 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. HISTORICAL PLAYS and Poems London

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2754 Washington Irving and F. W. SHAKESPEARE'S HOME: visited and described N. Y.

1877

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2755 HOWARD (FRANK) SHAKESPEARE. SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE London

1827

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2756 SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATIONS Lond.

1825

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2757 SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATIONS Leipsic

1844

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2758 SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATIONS London

1854

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2759 SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATIONS

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2760 SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL. Life and Selections London

1864

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2761 SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL

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2762 IRELAND (W. H.) SHAKESPEARE. CONFESSIONS London

1805

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2763 IRELAND SHAKESPEARE. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS Lond.

1796

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2764 MALONE (E.) SHAKESPEARE. INQUIRY into the Authenticity of Certain Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, and Henry, Earl of Southampton London

1796

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2765 KENNY (THOS.) SHAKESPEARE. LIFE AND GENIUS of Shakespeare Lon.

1864

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2766 [KENRICK (W.)] SHAKESPEARE. INTRODUCTION to the SCHOOL OF SHAKESPEARE London

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2767 KING JOHN SHAKESPEARE. The Original MS. of Mossop, the disinguished tragedian and contemporary of Garrick, for his use when playing this character

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2768 KNIGHT (CHARLES) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE: a Biography London

1843

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2769 SHAKSPEARE. LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE by H. N. HUDSON New York

1848

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2770 F. F. Heard SHAKESPEARE. LEGAL ACQUIREMENTS of Boston

1865

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2771 SHAKESPEARE'S LIBRARY Lond.

1843

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2772 SHAKESPEARE. LIST OF WORKS illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare London

1867

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2773 MALONE (E.) SHAKESPEARE. INQUIRY into the Authenticity of Certain Papers and Instruments attributed to Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Southampton, etc. London

1796

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2774 SHAKESPEARE MEASURE for MEASURE London

1734

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2775 SHAKESPEARE MERCHANT OF VENICE: as produced at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, January, 1867 New York

1867

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2776 SHAKESPEARE MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakspeare, including the Tragedy of King Lear and Fragment of Hamlet, from the Ireland MSS. London

1796

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2777 R. G. White SHAKESPEARE. MEMOIRS of the Life and Genius of Boston

1865

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2778 SHAKESPEARE MEMOIRS OF THE SHAKESPEAR'S HEAD in Covent Garden; in which are introduced many Entertaining Adventures and several Remarkable Characters London

1755

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2779 [MONTAGU (MRS.)] SHAKESPEARE. ESSAY on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, etc., with some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Voltaire London

1769

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2780 MONTAGU (MRS.) SHAKESPEARE. ESSAY on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, with some Remarks on the Misrepresentations of Voltaire London

1810

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2781 SHAKESPEARE MR. IRELAND'S VINDICATION of his Conduct respecting the Publication of the supposed Shakespeare MSS. London

1796

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2782 SHAKSPEARE MSS. MR. IRELAND'S VINDICATION of his Conduct respecting the Publication of the supposed Shakspeare MSS., etc. London

1796

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2783 SHAKESPEARE NEW READINGS of Old Authors London

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2784 SHAKESPEARE PHILOSOPHY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, delineating in Seven Hundred and Fifty Passages, selected from his Plays, the Multiform Phases of the Human Mind, collated, elucidated, and alphabetically arranged London

1857

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2785 SHAKESPEARE, PLAYS London

1807

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2786 SHAKSPEARE RETZSCH'S OUTLINES to HAMLET Leipsic

1838

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2787 RETZSCH (M.) SHAKESPEARE. ILLUSTRATIONS to SHAKESPEARE New York

1849

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2788 SHAKESPEARE REVIEW of the COLLIER INQUIRY, and Reply New York

1860

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2789 RICHARDSON (WM.) SHAKESPEARE. ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE'S Dramatic Characters of Macbeth, Hamlet, Jacques, and Imogen London

1785

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2790 SHAKESPEARE SENTIMENTS and SIMILES London

1864

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2791 SEYMOUR (E. H.) SHAKESPEARE. REMARKS, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, upon the Plays of Shakespeare London

1805

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2792 SINGER (SAMUEL W.) SHAKESPEARE. TEXT of SHAKESPEARE VINDICATED from the corruptions and interpolations advocated by J. P. Collier, Esq. London

1853

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2793 SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE. SIX OLD PLAYS, on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, etc. London

1779

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2794 SKOTTOWE (AUGUSTUS) SHAKESPEARE. LIFE OF Shakespeare, and Inquiries into the Originality of his Dramatic Plots, etc. London

1824

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2795 SHAKESPEARE. SONGS AND BALLADS London

1853

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2796 STRACHEY (EDWARD) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKSPEARE'S HAMLET: an Attempt to find the Key to a Great Moral Problem London

1848

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2797 SHAKESPEARE. STRATFORD as connected with Shakespeare...

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2798 G. Harrison SHAKESPEARE. STRATFORD BUST. Critical Inquiry into its Authenticity and Artistic Merits Brooklyn

1865

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2799 SHAKESPEARE. TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION of the Birth of Shakespeare Boston

1864

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2800 Captain Curling SHAKESPEARE. THE FOREST YOUTH; or, Shakespeare as he Lived London

1853

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2801 Gerald Massey SHAKESPEARE. The SECRET DRAMA of Shakespeare's Sonnets Unfolded, with the Characters Identified London

1872

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2802 THORNBURY (G. W.) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND; or, Sketches of our Social History in the Reign of Elizabeth London

1856

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2803 FRENCH (GEO. RUSSELL) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEAREANA GENEALOGICA Cambridge

1869

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2804 TWEDDELL (GEO.) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKSPERE: his Times and Contemporaries London

1852

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2805 UPTON (JOHN) SHAKESPEARE. CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS on Shakespeare London

1746

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2806 WHATELY (THOMAS) SHAKESPEARE. REMARKS on Some of the Characters of Shakespeare London

1839

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2807 [WHITE (JAS.)] SHAKESPEARE. ORIGINAL LETTERS of Sir John Falstaff from Genuine Manuscripts Phila.

1813

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2808 RICHARD GRANT WHITE SHAKESPEARE. ESSAY on the Authorship of the Three Parts of King Henry the Sixth Cambridge

1859

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2809 Richard Grant White SHAKESPEARE. MEMOIRS of the Life of William Shakespeare Boston

1866

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2810 WHITE (RICHARD GRANT) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE'S SCHOLAR: being Historical and Critical Studies of his Text, Characters, and Commentators New York

1854

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2811 WHITE (RICHARD GRANT) SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE'S SCHOLAR: Historical and Critical Studies of his Text, Characters, and Commentators New York

1854

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2812 [WHITER (WALTER)] SHAKESPEARE. SPECIMEN of a COMMENTARY on Shakspeare, containing Notes on As You Like It, etc. London

1794

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2813 SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE not an Impostor London

1857

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2814 WIVELL (ABRAHAM) SHAKESPEARE. INQUIRY INTO THE HISTORY, AUTHENTICITY, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SHAKESPEARE PORTRAITS, in which the Criticisms of Malone, Steevens, Boaden, and others are Examined, Confirmed, or Refuted, etc. London

1827

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