Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOSEPH J. COOKE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. PART II. THE WHOLE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, AT THE CLINTON HALL SALE ROOMS, ON Monday, October 1, 1883, and the following days. TWO SESSIONS DAILY, AT 3 O'CLOCK AND 7.30 P. M, 18831001,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 01, 1883 - October 01, 1883

Page Size: 3295 items in 33 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
196		BIBLIOTHEQUE Portative des Ecrivains Francois ou choix des meilleurs morceaux extraits de leur ouvrages	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
197		BIBLIOTHECA Anglo-Poetica; or, A Descriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich collection of Early English Poetry	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
198		BIDDULPH'S Essays on the select parts of the Liturgy of the Church of England	Boston		USD -	Unknown
199		BIDPAI Anivari Suhaili, or Fables of Bidpai			USD -	Unknown
200	BIOT J. B.	Traite de Physique Experimentate et Mathematique	Paris	1816	USD -	Unknown
201		BIOGRAPHIE Nouvelle des Cotemporains, on Dictionnaire Historique et Raisonne de tous les Homines qui, depui la Revolution Francaise, ont acquis de la Celebrite par leurs Actions	Paris	1827	USD -	Unknown
202		BIOGRAPHIE Moderne, ou Galerie historique, civile, militaire, politique, litteraire et judiciaire	Paris	1816	USD -	Unknown
203		BIOGRAPHIE Moderne. Lives of Remarkable Characters	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
204		BIRCH'S Views in Great Britain	London	1791	USD -	Unknown
205	BIRCH THOMAS	History of the Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge from its first rise	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
206	BIRCH THOMAS	The Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I	London	1760	USD -	Unknown
207	BISSETT ROBERT	Life of Edmund Burke	London	1800	USD -	Unknown
208	BLACK WILLIAM	Picturesque Tourist in Scotland	Edinburgh	1841	USD -	Unknown
209	BLACKBURN ARCHDEACON	The Confessional; or, a full and free enquiry into the right, utility, edification and success of establishing confessions of faith and doctrines in Protestant churches	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
209a	BLACKMANTLE BERNARD	The English Spy, a Characteristic, Satirical and Humorous work	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
210	BLACKWALL A.	The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated, etc.	London	1737	USD -	Unknown
211	BLADES WILLIAM	HOW to tell a Caxton	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
212	BLAIR ADAM	Some passages in the Life of; and the history of Matthew Wald	Edinburgh	1849	USD -	Unknown
213	BLAIR HUGH	BLAIR, HUGH. Sermons	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
214	BLAIR JOHN	Lectures on the Canon of the Scriptures	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
215	BLAKE WILLIAM	Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing the two contrary States of the human Soul	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
216	BLAND HUMPHREY	A Treatise of Military Discipline	London	1753	USD -	Unknown
217	BLAQUIERE E.	Letters from the Mediterranean, containing an account of Sicily, Tripoly, Tunis and Malta	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
218		BLAYNEY, MAJOR-GENERAL. Narrative of a forced Journey through Spain and France, as a prisoner of war in 1810 to 1814	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
219		LE BLON. L'art d'imprimer les Tableaux	Paris	1756	USD -	Unknown
220		BLOSSOMS of Morality...			USD -	Unknown
220a	BLOEMART ABRAHAM EN FRED.	Oorspronkelyk en ver-maard Kronstryk Tekenboek	Amsterdam	1711	USD -	Unknown
221	BLOOMFIELD ROBERT	Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
222	BLOUNT CHARLES	BLOUNT, CHARLES. Miscellaneous Works		1695	USD -	Unknown
223	BLUNT JOHN JAMES	Vestiges of ancient manners and customs discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
224		BOCCAGE, MARIE ANNE LE PAGE DU	Lyon	1764	USD -	Unknown
225		BOERII, NIC. Decisionum Aurearum, in Sacro Burdegalens		1559	USD -	Unknown
226	BOILEAU	Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau Despreaux avec des eclaircissemens historiques	Amsterdam	1718	USD -	Unknown
227	BOIS GELIN Louis DE	Travels through Denmark and Sweden with a Journal of a Voyage down the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburgh	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
228	BOLINGBROKE LORD	The Works of Lord Bolingbroke, with a Life	Philadelphia	1841	USD -	Unknown
229	BORROW GEORGE	Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gipsy, the Priest	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
230	BONAPARTE LUCIEN	BONAPARTE, LUCIEN. Prince of Casino. Memoirs of	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
231	BONOMI JOSEPH	Nineveh and its Palaces	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
232	BONNARD CAMILLO	Costumi dei Secoli XIII, XIV e XV ricavati dai piu autentici Monumenti di Pittura e di Scultura	Milan	1832	USD -	Unknown
233	L. N. R.	BOOK, (The) and its Story. A Narrative for the Young	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
233a		BOOK of the Gospels, and the Book of the Gospels according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland throughout the year	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
234		BOOK of Scottish Pasquils, &c.	Edinburgh	1827	USD -	Unknown
235	BOODT ANSELM DE	Symbola varia diversorum principum	Venetia	1601	USD -	Unknown
236	BOOTH JUNIUS BRUTUS	The Tragedian; An Essay on his Histrionic Genius	New York	1868	USD -	Unknown
237	BORLASE WM.	The Reduction of Ireland to the crown of England	London	1675	USD -	Unknown
238	BOSCHINI MARCO	L'Arcipelago con tutte le Isole, Scogli Secche, e Bassi Fondi, con i Mari, Golfi, Seni, Porti, Citta, e Castelli	Venetia	1558	USD -	Unknown
239	BOSMAN WILLIAM	A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea	London	1705	USD -	Unknown
240	BOSSUET JACQUES	Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle	Paris	1681	USD -	Unknown
241	BOSSUET JACQUES	Discours sur L'Histoire Universelle	Paris	1732	USD -	Unknown
242	BOSSU MONSIEUR	Treatise of the Epick Poem, containing many curious reflections	London	1719	USD -	Unknown
243	BOSWELL HENRY	Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England and Wales	London		USD -	Unknown
244	BOTTA CARLO	Storia d'Italia dal 1789 al 1814	Paris	1832	USD -	Unknown
245	BOUTERWEK FREDERICK	History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
246		BOWDITCH, N. Life of...			USD -	Unknown
247	BOWDLER Miss	BOWDLER, Miss. Poems and Essays	New York	1611	USD -	Unknown
248	BOWRING JOHN	(Translations, viz:) Poetry of the Magyars, preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania...	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
249		BOYER'S French Dictionary, and English-French Dictionary	Boston	1827	USD -	Unknown
250	BOLLE ROBERT	A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion	London	1737	USD -	Unknown
251	BOYES J. F.	Lacon in Council	London	1865	USD -	Unknown
252	BOYS THOMAS	The Suppressed Evidence; or, proofs of the miraculous faith and experience of the Church of Christ, from authentic records of the Fathers, Waldenses, Reformers, United Brethren, etc.	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
253	BRADBURY THOMAS	The Mystery of Godliness, considered in sixty sermons	Edinburgh	1795	USD -	Unknown
254	BRAND JOHN	Observations on Popular Antiquities	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
255	BRECK JOSEPH	New Book of Flowers	New York	1866	USD -	Unknown
255a	BREDOW G. G.	Compendious View of Universal History and Literature in a series of Fables	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
256	BRENTON EDWARD PELHAM	The Naval History of Great Britain from the year 1782 to 1822	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
257	BRENTON EDWARD PELHAM	Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St. Vincent, Admiral of the Fleet	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
258	BREVINT DAN.	Saul and Samuel at Endor, or the New Waies of Salvation and Service	Oxford	1674	USD -	Unknown
259	BREVAL J.	Remarks on several parts of Europe	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
260	BRIDGES CHARLES	An Index to Printed Pedigrees, contained in Country and Local Histories, the Heralds' Visitations, and in the more important Genealogical Collections	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
261	BRIDGES MATTHEW	The Roman Empire under Constantine the Great	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
262		BRITISH ANTIQUITIES, Essays Concerning...			USD -	Unknown
263		BRITISH CLASSICS. Comprising The Rambler...	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
264		BRITISH CLASSICS, (Harrison's Edition,) comprising: I. The Rambler. II....	London	1785	USD -	Unknown
265		BRITISH CHRONOLOGIST; comprehending every material occurrence, ecclesiastical, civil or military relative to England and Wales, from the invasion of the Romans to the present time	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
266		BRITISH ESSAYISTS, with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
267		BRITISH POETS. The Poems of Moore, Churchill, Coleridge, etc..	Boston		USD -	Unknown
267a		BRITISH POETS. A Collection of the British Poets...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
268		BRITISH PLUTARCH, containing the Lives of the most eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets and Artists of Great Britain, from the accession of Henry VIII	London	1791	USD -	Unknown
269		BRITISH POETS. Johnson and Parks' Edition	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
270	BRITTAN S. B. and DR. RICHMOND	A Discussion of the Facts and Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Spiritualism	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
271	BROKESLY FRANCIS	The Life of Mr. Henry Dodwell	London	1715	USD -	Unknown
272	BROME RICHARD	The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
273	BROMLEY GEORGE	A Collection of original Royal Letters	London	1787	USD -	Unknown
274	BROOKE SIR ARTHUR DE CAPEL	Sketches of Spain and Morocco	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
275	BROOKS CHARLES T.	The Layman's Breviary; or, Meditations for Every Day in the Year, from the German of Leopold Schefer	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
276	BROOKS CHARLES T.	Songs and Ballads; translated from Uhland, Korner, Burger and other German Poets	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
277	BROUGHAM LORD	History of England and France under the House of Lancaster	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
278	BROWN GOOLD	The Grammar of English Grammars	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
279	BROWN JOHN	Essays on the Characteristics of the Earl of Shaftesbury	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
280	BROWNE HENRY	Ordo Saeclorum. A Treatise on the Chronology of the Holy Scriptures, and the indications therein contained of a Divine Plan of Times and Seasons	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
281	BROWNE Jo.	Propositions and Orders by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, for bringing money or plate	London	1642	USD -	Unknown
282	BROWN JAMES	History of the Highland Clans	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
283	BROWNE SIMON	A Defence of the Religion of Nature, and the Christian Revolution against the Book entitled "Christianity as old as Creation"	London	1732	USD -	Unknown
284	BROWNE THOMAS	The British Cicero; or, A Selection of the most admired Speeches in the English Language	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
285	BROWNING ELIZABETH BARRETT	BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Poems	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
286	BROWNING MRS.	Aurora Leigh.--Robert Browning's Lordello, etc.		1857	USD -	Unknown
287	BRUNSWICK	The History of the most serene House of Brunswick-Lunenburgh in all the branches thereof	London	1715	USD -	Unknown
288	BRUNET J. C.	Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres	Paris	1860	USD -	Unknown
289	BRUNTON GEORGE	Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice from its institution in 1632	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
290	BRY DE	Bibliotheca Chalcographica hoc est virtute et eruditione devorum Vivorum Imagines	Heidelberg	1659	USD -	Unknown

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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: 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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