Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE PRIVATE LIBRARY, COMPRISING AN EXTENSIVE AND SELECT COLLECTION OF CHOICE BOOKS, IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, Embracing Fine London Editions of the Best Standard Works, and an immense number of Rare, Curious, and Recherche Boo, 18590516,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 16, 1859 - May 16, 1859

Page Size: 5010 items in 51 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
902	COOPER (J. Fennimore)	CONSTITUTION:--COOPER (J. Fennimore) Novels			USD -	Unknown
903	COOPER (J. Fennimore)	CONSTITUTION:--The ways of the hour	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
904	COOPER (Thos.)	CONSTITUTION:--Wise saws and modern instances	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
906	CORNEILLE (E.)	CONSTITUTION:--Chefs d'oeuvres de	Paris	1834	USD -	Unknown
907		CONSTITUTION:--CORNELIUS Nepos, Lives of the excellent commanders	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
908	CORNWALL (Barry)	CONSTITUTION:--Marcian Colonna, and other poems	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
909		CONSTITUTION:--CORONAL and the mistletoe			USD -	Unknown
910	CORTEZ (Hernando)	CONSTITUTION:--CORTEZ (Hernando), Despatches of	New York	1843	USD -	Unknown
911	COSTELLO (L. S.)	CONSTITUTION:--Jacques Coeur, the French argonaut	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
912	COSTELLO (Miss)	CONSTITUTION:--Specimens of the early poetry of France, from the time of the troubadours	London		USD -	Unknown
913		COSTUME:--Book of costume, or annals of fashion from the earliest period	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
914		COSTUME:--Differentshabillemens des troupes legeresetranges, a series of beautifully colored plates of military costume			USD -	Unknown
915	Hope (Thomas)	COSTUME:--The costume of the ancients	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
916	Stone (Mrs.)	COSTUME:--Chronicles of fashion from the time of Elizabeth to the early part of the 19th century, in manners, amusements, banquets, costume, &c.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
917	Smith (Col. H.)	COSTUME:--The ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 7th to the 16th century	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
918		COTTON:--Cotton, from the pod to the factory	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
919	Montgomery (Jas.)	COTTON:--A practical detail of the cotton manufactures of the United States	Glasgow	1840	USD -	Unknown
920	Scott's (R.)	COTTON:--Practical cotton spinner and manufacturer, corrected and enlarged by Oliver Byrne	Phil.	1851	USD -	Unknown
921	White (G. S.)	COTTON:--Memoir of S. Slater, and the rise and progress of cotton manufacture	Phil.	1836	USD -	Unknown
922	COWLEY (A.)	COTTON:--COWLEY (A.), Works	Lond.	1688	USD -	Unknown
923	COWLEY (Abram)	COTTON:--COWLEY (Abram), Works	London	1721	USD -	Unknown
924	COWPER	COTTON:--COWPER'S Works			USD -	Unknown
925	COWPER	COTTON:--COWPER Poems		1817	USD -	Unknown
926		COTTON:--Task, Table-talk, and other poems	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
927		COTTON:--COWPER illustrated by a series of views in or near the park of Weston Underwood Bucks			USD -	Unknown
928	COWPER (W.)	COTTON:--The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
929	COXE (A. C.)	COTTON:--Saul, a mystery	N.Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
930	COXE (P. R.)	COTTON:--Compendium of arts and sciences	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
931	CRABBE'S (Dr. G.)	COTTON:--CRABBE'S (Dr. G.) Poetical works	London		USD -	Unknown
932	CRABBE'S (Rev. G.)	COTTON:--Borough, a poem	London		USD -	Unknown
933		COTTON:--CRABBE, Heber, and Pollok's works	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	Unknown
934	Bates (W.)	CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Mysterious stranger, or memoirs of Henry More Smith, a notorious criminal and jail breaker	New Haven	1817	USD -	Unknown
935		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Beccaria on crimes and punishments, attributed to Voltaire	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
936		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Brooke's book of pirates	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
937		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Criminal calendar of the United States, as an awful warning to the youth of America	Boston	1833	USD -	Unknown
938	Fielding (H.)	CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Life of Jonathan Wild, the great	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
939		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Howard's history of Virgil Stewart, and his adventures in the capture of Murrel	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
940		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Johnson's lives of English highwaymen, pirates, and robbers		1840	USD -	Unknown
942		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Macfarlane's lives of banditti and robbers	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
943		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Martin Faber, the story of a criminal	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
944		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--CROCKETT'S (Col. David) life and travels, north and east	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
945	CROLY (Rev. G.)	CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--CROLY (Rev. G.), Poetical works of	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
946		CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--CROLY'Ssalathiel	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
947	CROLY (G.)	CRIMES AND CRIMINALS:--Memoirs of a statesman		1845	USD -	Unknown
949		CROMWELL:--Russell's life of Oliver Cromwell	New York	1838	USD -	Unknown
950		CROMWELL:--Wilson's Oliver Cromwell	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
951		CROMWELL:--CROSBY'S merchant's and tradesman's pocket dictionary	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
952	CROSWELL'S (Dr.)	CROMWELL:--CROSWELL'S (Dr.) memoirs	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
953		CROMWELL:--CROWD'S light and darkness, &c.			USD -	Unknown
954		CROMWELL:--GRUDEN'S concordance to the Holy Scriptures	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
955	J. Y. A	CROMWELL:--CRUIKSHANK, Tales of other days	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
956		CRUSADES:--Michaux's history of the crusades	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
957		CRUSADES:--Proctor's history of the crusades	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
958	Rattenbury (J. L.)	CUBA:--Remarks on the cession of the Floridas to the United States of America, and on the necessity of acquiring the island of Cuba by Great Britain	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
959	Norman (B. M.)	CUBA:--Rambles in Cuba and Mexico	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
960	Turnbull (D.)	CUBA:--Travels in Cuba, Porto Rico, &c.	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
961		CUBA:--CURIOSITIES and rarities in nature and art	London		USD -	Unknown
962		CUBA:--CURIOSITIES of biography, or memoirs of extraordinary characters			USD -	Unknown
963	CURRAN (W. H.)	CUBA:--Life of J. P. Curran	New York	1820	USD -	Unknown
964	CURTIS (D.)	CUBA:--Western portraiture and emigrant's guide	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
965		CUBA:--DAGLEY'S death's doings	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
965a	D'ACUGNA'S (Father)	CUBA:--Voyage up the river of Amazons to Quito in Peru, in 1639	London	1698	USD -	Unknown
966	Wilkinson (Sir J. G.)	DALMATIA:--History of Dalmatia and Montenegro	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
967	DAMPIER'S (Wm.)	DALMATIA:--New voyage round the world	London	1729	USD -	Unknown
968		DANCING:--Durang's Terpsichore or ball-room guide	Philadelphia	1848	USD -	Unknown
969		DANCING:--Cellarius's drawing-room dances	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
970		DANCING:--DANIEL'S my sister Minnie, a novel			USD -	Unknown
971	D'ARBLAY (Mme.)	DANCING:--A memoir of Dr. Burney	Philadelphia	1833	USD -	Unknown
972	DE BERGER	DANCING:--Commentatio de Personisvulgolarvissev Mascheris, etc.		1723	USD -	Unknown
973	DE BOW (J. D. B.)	DANCING:--Industrial resources of the Southern and Western States		1852	USD -	Unknown
974		DANCING:--DE BOW'S commercial review	N. Orleans	1853	USD -	Unknown
975	DE BURY (B. B.)	DANCING:--Memory of princess Palatine, princess of Bohemia	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
976		DECATUR:--Mackenzie's life of Stephen Decatur	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
977	DE FOE (D.)	DECATUR:--Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe	New York		USD -	Unknown
977a		DECATUR:--DE BOES Life and adventures of Duncan Campbell	Oxford	1841	USD -	Unknown
977b		DECATUR:--DE BOES Memoir of Capt. Geo. Carleton, and the life and adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies	Oxford	1840	USD -	Unknown
977c		DECATUR:--DE BOES Complete English tradesman	Oxford	1841	USD -	Unknown
977d	Chalmers (G.)	DECATUR:--Life of Daniel De Foe	Oxford	1841	USD -	Unknown
978	DE LA MOTTE (Countess)	DECATUR:--DE LA MOTTE (Countess), Memoirs of	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
979	DE LANSEZUE (M.)	DECATUR:--Historical geography	Lond.	1791	USD -	Unknown
980		DECATUR:--DELAPLAINE'S Repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American characters	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
981	Ferris (B.)	DELAWARE:--History of the original settlements on the Delaware from its discovery by Hudson to the colonization by W. Penn	Wilmington	1846	USD -	Unknown
982	DE LIGNE (Prince)	DELAWARE:--DE LIGNE (Prince) Letters and reflections of	Phila.	1809	USD -	Unknown
983		DELAWARE:--DEMOCRATIC Review, new series	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
984		DELAWARE:--DE QUINCEY'S opium eater	Boston	1841	USD -	Unknown
985		DELAWARE:--DESULTORIA, The recovered MSS. of an eccentric	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
986	DE TOCQUEVILLE (A.)	DELAWARE:--Democracy in America	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
987	Hosack (D.)	DE WITT CLINTON:--Memoir of De Witt Clinton	New York	1829	USD -	Unknown
988		DE WITT CLINTON:--Renwick's life of De Witt Clinton	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
989	Wells (W. C.)	DEW:--Two essays; one upon single vision with two eyes, the other on dew	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
990		DIALING:--Leybourn's dialing, showing how to make dials	London	1682	USD -	Unknown
991		DIALING:--DIALOGUES of the dead	London	1769	USD -	Unknown
992		DIALING:--DIAMONDS and pearls, Jeffreys on the manufacture of	London		USD -	Unknown
993	DICK (Thos.)	DIALING:--DICK (Thos.), Works	Hart.	1845	USD -	Unknown
994	DICK (Dr. J.)	DIALING:--On the improvement of society		1830	USD -	Unknown
995		DIALING:--DICKENS' David Copperfield, &c.			USD -	Unknown
996		DIALING:--DICKENS' Bleak House and David Copperfield		1853	USD -	Unknown
997		DIALING:--DICKENS' Dombey and Son	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
998		DIALING:--DICKENS' Oliver Twist	Phila.	1839	USD -	Unknown
999		DIALING:--DICKENS' Sketches by Boz	Phila.	1852	USD -	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.