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
1110		DRUNKENNESS:--Macnish, Anatomy of drunkenness	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
1111		DRUNKENNESS:--Cornyn's Dick Wilson, the rumseller's victim	Auburn	1853	USD -	Unknown
1112		DRUNKENNESS:--Ebrietates encomium, or the praise of drunkenness	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
1113	Parsons (Rev. B.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Anti-Bacchus, an essay on the evils of intoxicating drinks	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
1114		DRUNKENNESS:--DRYDEN'S Poetical works		1768	USD -	Unknown
1115	DRYDEN	DRUNKENNESS:--DRYDEN'S Works	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1116	DRYDEN	DRUNKENNESS:--DRYDEN Poetical works	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1117		DRUNKENNESS:--DUGANNE'S comprehensive summary of universal history	Philadelphia	1849	USD -	Unknown
1118	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Camille	New York		USD -	Unknown
1119	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Celebrated crimes	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
1120	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--The conscript, a tale of the empire	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
1121	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Countess de Charny, or the fall of the French monarchy	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
1122	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Count of Monte Christo	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1123	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Memoirs of a physician	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
1124	DUMAS (Alex.)	DRUNKENNESS:--DUMAS (Alex.) Novels			USD -	Unknown
1125	DUMAS (Emanuel)	DRUNKENNESS:--Phillibert, or the European wars of the 16th century	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
1126	DUPERIER (M.)	DRUNKENNESS:--History of all voyages and travels in the old and new world	London	1708	USD -	Unknown
1127	DUPUY (A. E.)	DRUNKENNESS:--The conspirator	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
1128	DUSENBERRY (B. M.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Monument to Jackson	Philadelphia	1846	USD -	Unknown
1129	DYMOND (J.)	DRUNKENNESS:--On the accordancy of war with Christianity	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	Unknown
1130		DRUNKENNESS:--DYNKERIUS, Voorbeeldzels der Oude Wyzen	Amst.	1714	USD -	Unknown
1131		DRUNKENNESS:--EASTBURN'Syamoyden, a tale	New York	1820	USD -	Unknown
1132		DRUNKENNESS:--EASTERN romance, Arabian and other tales	London		USD -	Unknown
1133		DRUNKENNESS:--ECCE Homo, or a critical inquiry into the history of Jesus	New York	1827	USD -	Unknown
1134	ECCLES (Mrs.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Riches of poverty	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1135		DRUNKENNESS:--ECHOES from a belle	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
1136	EDGARSON (S. C.)	DRUNKENNESS:--Rose of Sharon, a religious souvenir for 1844	Boston		USD -	Unknown
1137	EDGEWORTH (Miss)	DRUNKENNESS:--EDGEWORTH'S (Miss) works	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
1138		DRUNKENNESS:--EDGEWORTH'S (Maria) popular tales	N. Y.	1834	USD -	Unknown
1139		DRUNKENNESS:--EDINBURGH Review, complete from its commencement in 1802 to 1858		1802	USD -	Unknown
1140	Bowers (A.)	EDINBURGH:--History of the University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	1817	USD -	Unknown
1141	Barnard (H.)	EDUCATION:--Normal schools and other institutions	Hartford	1857	USD -	Unknown
1142	Combe (G.)	EDUCATION:--Lectures on popular education	Edinburgh	1837	USD -	Unknown
1143		EDUCATION:--Common School Journal	Boston	1839	USD -	Unknown
1144		EDUCATION:--Education for God, or the pure word of God a record of real life	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1145		EDUCATION:--Hosmer's young man's book on self-education	Buffalo	1854	USD -	Unknown
1146		EDUCATION:--Mayhem, Means and ends of universal education	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
1147	Neff (Jos.)	EDUCATION:--Education founded on an analysis of the human faculties and natural reason	Philadelphia	1808	USD -	Unknown
1148	Perry (Jas.)	EDUCATION:--Perryian principia and course of education, (a most singular work)	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
1149	Pycroft (Rev. J.)	EDUCATION:--On school education	Oxford	1843	USD -	Unknown
1150		EDUCATION:--Stodart, Principles of education practically considered	London		USD -	Unknown
1151	Edwards's (Pres.)	EDUCATION:--Edwards's (Pres.) works	Leeds	1806	USD -	Unknown
1152		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Ainsworth's (Wm. F.) travels and researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1153		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Aiton's lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope, visited in 1851	London		USD -	Unknown
1154		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Ali Pacha, Historical portraiture of leading events in the life of	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1155		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Bartlett's Jerusalem revisited	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1156	Churi (J. H.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Sea Nile, the desert and Nigritia		1853	USD -	Unknown
1157	Edmondstone (Sir A.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--A journey to two of the oases of Upper Egypt	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1158		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Englishwomen in Egypt	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
1159		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Gliddon's ancient Egypt	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
1160	Gouin (Ed.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--L'Egypte au XIX. siecle, histoire militaire, anecdotique, et pittoresque	paris	1847	USD -	Unknown
1161	Hawks (Dr.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Monuments of Egypt	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
1162		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Hoskins's (G. A.) visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan desert	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1163	Lynch (Lieut.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Official report of the United States expedition to explore the Dead Sea and the river Jordan	Baltimore	1852	USD -	Unknown
1164	Maundrell (Hen.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, 1697	Oxford	1749	USD -	Unknown
1165		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Modern traveller: Palestine and Arabia	Boston		USD -	Unknown
1166	Minatoli (Baroness)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Recollection of Egypt	Philadelphia	1827	USD -	Unknown
1166a		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Roberts's views in the Holy Land	London		USD -	Unknown
1167	Roberts (Miss Emma)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Notes of an overland journey through France and Egypt	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
1168		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Russell's Egypt, ancient and modern	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1168a		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Russell's Egypt, Palestine	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1169	Scott (C. R.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Rambles in Egypt and Candia	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1170	Seymer (J. G.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Romance of ancient Egypt	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1171	Thompson (Charles)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, &c.	Carlisle	1815	USD -	Unknown
1172	Terrason (Abbe)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Life of Sethos	London	1732	USD -	Unknown
1173	Volney (C. F.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, 1783-85	Paris	1822	USD -	Unknown
1174	Volney (C. F.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Travels through Egypt and Syria in 1783, 1784, and 1785	New York	1798	USD -	Unknown
1175	Wilson's (R. T.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--History of the expedition to Egypt	Philadelphia	1803	USD -	Unknown
1176	Wilkinson (Sir J. Gardner)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--A popular account of the ancient Egyptians, revised and abridged from the larger work	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
1177		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELEGANT extracts; or, useful and entertaining passages in prose and verse		1808	USD -	Unknown
1178		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELLEN Clifford	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
1179	ELLET'S (Mrs.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Wvenings at Woodlawn	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
1180	ELIZABETH de Bruce	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--By the author of Clan Albin	New York	1827	USD -	Unknown
1181	ELLIOTT (E.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Antiochus Epiphanus	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
1182	ELLIOT (Col. J. D.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELLIOT (Col. J. D.), Biographical notice of	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	Unknown
1183	ELLIOT (Stephen)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--Address to the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina	Charleston	1814	USD -	Unknown
1184		EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELLIS'S specimens of early English poets	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
1185	ELLIS (Mrs.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELLIS (Mrs.), Poetry of life, &c.			USD -	Unknown
1186	ELLIS (Mrs.)	EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND:--ELLIS (Mrs.) Complete works of	London		USD -	Unknown
1187		ELOCUTION:--Scott's Lessons in elocution	Philadelphia	1797	USD -	Unknown
1188	Vandenhoff (G.)	ELOCUTION:--System of elocution	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
1189		ELOCUTION:--ELVINA, the novice of St. Ursula	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
1190		EMBLEMS:--Alciata emblemata, cum Claudii Minois J. C. Commentariis		1608	USD -	Unknown
1191		EMBLEMS:--Choice emblems, or delights for the ingenious	London	1732	USD -	Unknown
1192	EMBURY (E. C.)	EMBLEMS:--Glimpses of home life; or, causes and consequences	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
1193	EMERSON (R. W.)	EMBLEMS:--EMERSON (R. W.), Complete works	Boston		USD -	Unknown
1194	EMERSON (R. W.)	EMBLEMS:--Oration at Cambridge	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
1195	EMERSON (R. W.)	EMBLEMS:--EMERSON (R. W.) Essays	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
1196		EMBLEMS:--EMILY of Lucerne	London	1800	USD -	Unknown
1197		ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Blunt and Stephenson's Civil engineer, machinist, &c.	London		USD -	Unknown
1198		ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Byrne's Dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine works, and engineering	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
1199	Cresy (Ed.)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Encyclopaedia of civil engineering	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
1200	Dix (Thos.)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--A treatise on land surveying	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1201	Haskoll (W. D.)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Assistant engineer's railroad guide in boring	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1202	Haupt (H.)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Theory of bridge construction	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
1203		ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Henck's field book for engineers			USD -	Unknown
1204		ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Professional papers of the corps of royal civil engineers	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
1205	Mahan (D. H.)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Elementary course of civil engineering for the use of cadets of the United States military academy	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
1206		ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--Public works of Great Britain: railways, viaducts, engines, cast iron bridges, iron and gas works, canals, London and Liverpool docks, &c.	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
1207	Ritchie (Robert)	ENGINEERING, LAND SURVEYING, RAILROADS, &C.:--The farm engineer; a treatise on farm machinery, particularly with application of steam and other motive powers	London	1849	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.