Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. DAVID KING, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND. THE WHOLE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, AT THE CLINTON HALL SALE ROOMS, ON Monday, March 26th, 1883, and the following days. TWO SESSIONS DAILY, AT 3 O'CLOCK, AND 7.30 P. M., GEO. A. , 18830326,

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 26, 1883 - March 26, 1883

Page Size: 3237 items in 33 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
392	BOURDELOTII, JOANNIS	Ad Luciani Samosatensis Philosophi Opera, Cum indice Completissimo	Lutetiae Parisiorum	1615	USD -	Unknown
393	BOURDON, ISID	Principles de Physiologic Comparce	Paris	1830	USD -	Unknown
394	BOURRIENNE, M. DE	Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
395	BOURS, JOHN	An Appeal to the Public for Trinity Church, Newport	Newport	1789	USD -	Unknown
396	BOWDEN, JAMES	History of the Society of Friends in America	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
397	BOAVER, Alexander	Life of Luther	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
398	BOAVEN, DR. PARDON	Letter containing Observations on the Origin and Nature of the Yellow Fever in Providence in 1805		1805	USD -	Unknown
399	BOAVNAS, SAMUEL	An Account of the Life, Travels and Christian Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
400	BOYLE, CHARLES. Dr.	Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of AEsop	London	1698	USD -	Unknown
401		BOWYER'S ENGRAVINGS for Humes' History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
402	BRACKENRIDGE, H. M.	Voyage to South America	Baltimore	1819	USD -	Unknown
403	BRACKENRIDGE	Voyage to South America			USD -	Unknown
404	BRADFORD, A. W.	American Antiquities and Researches into the Origin and History of the Red Race	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
405	BRADFORD, ALDEN	History of Massachusetts from 1764 to 1789	Boston	1822	USD -	Unknown
406	BRADFORD	History of Massachusetts from 1764 to 1789			USD -	Unknown
407		BRADLEY'S Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature. Sinclair's Modern Society...			USD -	Unknown
408	BRAINERD, DAVID	The Life of, Missionary to the Indians; with an Abridgement of his Diary and Journal	Boston	1821	USD -	Unknown
409	BRAINERD, DAVID	Abridgement of Journal Among the Indians; or, The Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of God Among the Indians in New Jersey and Pennsylvania	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
410	BRAMWELL (GEO.)	Manner of Proceeding on Bills in the House of Commons	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
411	BRANDE, W. T.	A Dictionary of Science	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
412	BRAY, THOMAS	Bibliotheca Parochialis; or, A Scheme of such Theological Heads requisite to be Well-Studied by every Pastor of a Parish, and a Catalogue of Books on these Points	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
413	BREMER, FREDRIKA	The Home	Philadelphia	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
414	BRENTON, EDWARD W.	The Naval History of Great Britain from 1783 to 1836	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
415	BRENTON, SIR JAHLEEL	The Hope of the Navy; or, The True Source of Discipline and Efficiency as set forth in the Articles of War	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
416	BRENTON	Memoir of the Life and Services of	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
417	BRENTON, EDWARD PELHAM	BRENTON, EDWARD PELHAM. Memoir of	Boston	1842	USD -	Unknown
418	BREVOORT, J. C.	Verrazano	New York	1874	USD -	Unknown
419	BREWSTER, Charles W.	Rambles about Portsmouth	Portsmouth, N. H.	1859-1869	USD -	Unknown
420		BRICK CHURCH MEMORIAL	New York	1867	USD -	Unknown
421		BRIDGEWATER TREATISES on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God	London	1834-37	USD -	Unknown
422	BRIDGMAN, THOMAS	The Pilgrims of Boston and their Descendants	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
423	BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J. P.	Nouvelle Voyage dans les Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale	Paris	1791	USD -	Unknown
424	BRISSOT	New Travels in the United States performed in 1788	London	1792	USD -	Unknown
425	BRISSOT	New Travels in the United States performed in 1788	New York	1792	USD -	Unknown
426		BRITISH DRAMA. A Collection of the Most Esteemed Tragedies, Comedies, Operas and Farces in the English Language	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	Unknown
427	BRADFORD, WILLIAM	History of Plymouth Plantations	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
428		BRITISH Eloquence	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
429		BRITISH HISTORICAL INTELLIGENCER: Containing a Catalogue of English, Scotch, Irish and Welsh Historians	Westminster	1829	USD -	Unknown
430		BRITISH LIBERTIES; or, The Free-born Subject's Inheritance	London	1766	USD -	Unknown
431	Andrew Wynter, editor	BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, being the Journal of the British Medical Association	London	1859-1862	USD -	Unknown
432	BRISTED, JOHN	America and Her Resources; or, A View	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
433	BRITTON, JOHN	An Historical Account of Corsham House in Wiltshire	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
434	BRITTON	The Authorship of the Letters of Junius elucidated	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
435	BROADHURST, THOMAS	Funeral Orations in Praise of Military Men	Bath	1811	USD -	Unknown
436	BRODHEAD, JOHN R.	Calendar to the Holland Documents in the Office of the Secretary of State at Albany: Transcribed from the Royal Archives at the Hague	Albany	1845	USD -	Unknown
437	BRODIE, B. C.	Diseases of the Joints...			USD -	Unknown
438	BROMFIELD, JAMES	Lower Brittany and the Bible There	London	1863	USD -	Unknown
439	BROMLEY, HENRY	Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits from Egbert the Great to the Present Time	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
440	BROOKE, RICHARD	Liverpool, as it was during the last century	Liverpool	1853	USD -	Unknown
441	BROOKS, CHARLES T.	Controversy touching the Old Stone Mill in the Town of Newport	Newport	1851	USD -	Unknown
442	BROOKS	History of the Town of Medford from its First Settlement to the Present Time	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
443	BROUGHAM, HENRY (LORD)	An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers	Edinburgh	1803	USD -	Unknown
444	BROUGHAM	An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers	Edinburgh	1803	USD -	Unknown
445	BROUGHAM	A Discourse of Natural Theology	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	Unknown
446	BROUGHAM	Lives of Men of Letters and Science who flourished in the time of George III	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
447	BROUGHAM	Historical Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George III; to which are added Remarks on the French Revolution	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
448	BROUGHAM	BROUGHAM. Speeches of: With Historical Introductions and a Critical Dissertation upon the eloquence of the Ancients	Edinburgh	1838	USD -	Unknown
449	BROUGHAM	Political Philosophy	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
450	BROWNE, ARTHUR	View of the Civil Law, and of the Law of the Admiralty...	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
451	BROWN, JOHN, M. D.	Locke and Sydenham, and other Occasional Papers	Edinburgh	1858	USD -	Unknown
452	BROWN, THOMAS	Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Edinburgh	1824	USD -	Unknown
453	BROWN, THOMAS	Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind		1851	USD -	Unknown
454	BROWN, THOMAS (SIR)	Enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly Presumed Truths	London	1669	USD -	Unknown
455	BROWNE	Posthumus Works of: The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church at Norwich, Letters between Sir William Dugdale and Sir Thomas Browne, etc.	London	1712	USD -	Unknown
456	BROWNE	Religio Medici	London	1669	USD -	Unknown
457	BROWN, WILLIAM H.	Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans	Hartford	1845	USD -	Unknown
458	BROWNE, ARTHUR	BROWNE, ARTHUR. Miscellaneous Sketches; or, Hints for Essays	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
459		BROWN UNIVERSITY. An Act for the Establishment of a College or University within this Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America	Newport	[1764]	USD -	Unknown
460		BROWN UNIVERSITY. Catalogus eorum qui in Collegio Rhodia. Insulse quod est Providentiae, ab anno 1769 ad annum 1764	Providence	1804	USD -	Unknown
461	BROWN, ISAAC H.	The Immortality of the Soul: A Poem from the Latin of	Cambridge	1795	USD -	Unknown
462	BRUE, H.	Cartes Ency protypes d'Amerique, Europe. Asie, France, Oceanie, etc.	Paris	1815	USD -	Unknown
463		BRUNONIAN (THE)	Providence	1831	USD -	Unknown
464	BRUNET, J. C.	Manuel du Libraire et De L'Amateur de Livres	Paris	1814	USD -	Unknown
465	BRUEN	Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Rev. M. Bruen, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Bleecker street, New York	New York	1831	USD -	Unknown
466	BRYAN, MICHAEL	A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
467	BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, and Sidney Howard Gay	A Popular History of the United States, from its First Discovery to the End of the First Century of the Union of the States	Boston	1876	USD -	Unknown
468	BRYDGES, SIR EGERTON	The Autobiography, Times, Opinions and Contemporaries of	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
469	BRYDGES	Imaginative Biography	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
470	BRYDGES	Memoirs of the Peers of England during the Reign of James the First	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
471	BRYDGES	The Anti-Critic for August, 1821, and March, 1822	Geneva	1822	USD -	Unknown
472	BRIDGES	Verses written as a Preface to the Sylvan Wanderer	Kent	1815	USD -	Unknown
473	BRYDGES	What Are Riches? or, An Examination of the Definitions on this Subject given by Modern Economists	Kent	1822	USD -	Unknown
473a	BUCHANAN, GEORGE	History o Scotland from the Earliest Accounts to the Reign of King James VI	Glasgow	1799	USD -	Unknown
474	BUCKINGHAM, JOSEPH T.	Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
475	BUCKINGHAM, J. T. and E.	The New England Magazine	Boston	1831-1833	USD -	Unknown
476	BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS	History of Civilization in England	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
477		BUDGELL. Memoirs of the Earl of Orrery, 1732...			USD -	Unknown
478		BUFFON. Morceaux choisis...			USD -	Unknown
479	BULKELEY, PETER	The Gospel Covenant; or, The Covenant of Grace Ahmed	London	1651	USD -	Unknown
480	BULKELEY, JOHN	Impartial Account of a Late Debate at Lyme, in Connecticut. I. The Baptism...	New London	1729	USD -	Unknown
481	BULWER, HENRY LYTTON	France, Social, Literary, Political	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
482	BULWER	Athens, its Rise and Fall	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
483		BUNDLE (A) of Myrrh; or, Rules for a Christian's daily Meditation and Practice	Newport	1763	USD -	Unknown
484	BUNYAN, JOHN	Pilgrim's Progress	Worcester	1791	USD -	Unknown
485	BUNYAN	The Pilgrim's Progress, to which is prefixed the Life of the Author	Romsey	1816	USD -	Unknown
486	BUNYAN	The Pilgrim's Progress, to which is prefixed the Life of the Author	London	1786	USD -	Unknown
488	BUNYAN	The Pilgrim's Progress, to which is prefixed the Life of the Author	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
489	BURGES, TRISTAM	Battle of Lake Erie	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	Unknown
490	BURGES	Battle of Lake Erie	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	Unknown
491	BURGH	Political Disquisitions; or, An Enquiry into Public Errors	London	1774	USD -	Unknown

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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