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
1408		FACETIAE:--Apologie des dames appuyeesur l'histoire	Paris	1737	USD -	Unknown
1409		FACETIAE:--Apuleius's Metamorphosis, or golden ass; a romance of the 2d century	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1410		FACETIAE:--Metamorphosis, or golden ass; and philosophical works	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1411		FACETIAE:--Aristoenetus's Love epistles	London	1771	USD -	Unknown
1412		FACETIAE:--Atlantis: secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes from the new Atlantis, translated from the Italian	London	1736	USD -	Unknown
1413	Balzack (Monsieur de)	FACETIAE:--New epistles	London	1638	USD -	Unknown
1414	Barber (John)	FACETIAE:--Barber (John), Life	London	1741	USD -	Unknown
1415	Belle (la)	FACETIAE:--Assemblee; being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happened to persons of the first quality in France	London	1743	USD -	Unknown
1415a		FACETIAE:--Beppo in London; a metropolitan story	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1415b	Bennett (C. H.)	FACETIAE:--Shadows	Philadelphia	1859	USD -	Unknown
1415c		FACETIAE:--Bijoux indiscrets, or the indiscreet toys		1749	USD -	Unknown
1416		FACETIAE:--Boccaccio, Il Decamerone	London (Paris)	1757	USD -	Unknown
1417		FACETIAE:--Bocace, Contes, traductionerancaise par Sebatier de Castres	Paris	1801	USD -	Unknown
1418		FACETIAE:--Boccaccio, Decameron	London		USD -	Unknown
1419		FACETIAE:--Book (the): an inquiry into the proceedings and correspondence consequent upon the matrimonial difficulties between George IV	New York	1813	USD -	Unknown
1420		FACETIAE:--Book (the): or the proceedings and correspondence upon the subject of inquiry into the conduct of the Princess of Wales, under a commission appointed by the king in the year 1806	New York	1813	USD -	Unknown
1421	Boyle (Robt.)	FACETIAE:--Boyle (Robt.), Voyages and adventures of	Liverpool	1744	USD -	Unknown
1422		FACETIAE:--British Apollo	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
1423		FACETIAE:--Brookes' Fool of quality	New York	1818	USD -	Unknown
1424	Brown (S.)	FACETIAE:--Fudges in England: being a sequel to the "Fudge Family in Paris"	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1425	Brown (Tom)	FACETIAE:--Brown's (Tom) Works		1730	USD -	Unknown
1426	Brown. (T.)	FACETIAE:--Brown's (T.) Works	London	1719	USD -	Unknown
1427		FACETIAE:--Brown's Estimate of the manners and principles of the times	London	1757	USD -	Unknown
1428	Buckingham (George Villiers, Duke of)	FACETIAE:--Buckingham (George Villiers, Duke of), Genuine works	Glasgow	1752	USD -	Unknown
1429	Burrough's (Stephen)	FACETIAE:--Burrough's (Stephen) Memoirs	Albany	1811	USD -	Unknown
1430		FACETIAE:--Calipaedia; or the art of getting beautiful children	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
1431	Canning (Elizabeth)	FACETIAE:--Canning (Elizabeth), Genuine and impartial memoirs of	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
1432	Carson (Mrs.)	FACETIAE:--Memoirs of the celebrated and beautiful	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
1433	Casa (Giovanni della)	FACETIAE:--Opere	Napoli	1733	USD -	Unknown
1434	Casanova de Seingalt (J. B.)	FACETIAE:--Casanova de Seingalt (J. B.), Memoirs de	Paris	1825	USD -	Unknown
1435		FACETIAE:--Catulli, Tibulli et Propertii Opera	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
1436		FACETIAE:--Charlton's The wife and the mistress	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
1437		FACETIAE:--Child of 36 fathers	New York	1809	USD -	Unknown
1438	Clarke (M. A.)	FACETIAE:--Rival princes; or, a faithful narrative of facts relating to Mrs. M. A. Clarke's political acquaintance with Colonel Wardle, Major Dodd, &c.	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
1439	Clarke (M. A.)	FACETIAE:--The rival princes (Duke of York and George IV.), a faithful narrative	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
1441	Clarke (M. A.)	FACETIAE:--Clarke (M. A.) Authentic memoirs of	New York	1809	USD -	Unknown
1442	Clarke Robinson (Mrs.), and Mrs. Clarke	FACETIAE:--Clarke Robinson (Mrs.), and Mrs. Clarke, Autobiographies of	London		USD -	Unknown
1443	Clarke Taylor (Miss E.)	FACETIAE:--Authentic memoirs of Mrs. Clarke, mistress of the Duke of York	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
1444		FACETIAE:--Vita Di Cleopatra	Parigi	1798	USD -	Unknown
1445	Cleveland (Mr.)	FACETIAE:--Natural son of Oliver Cromwell	London	1760	USD -	Unknown
1446	Collet (S.)	FACETIAE:--Relics of literature, &c.	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1447		FACETIAE:--Colman's Broad grins and tales in verse	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
1448		FACETIAE:--Colquhon's Treatise on the police of the metropolis	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
1449		FACETIAE:--Confessions (Les) d'un Fat	Frankf.	1750	USD -	Unknown
1450	Congreve (Wm.)	FACETIAE:--Congreve (Wm.), Memoir of the life	London	1730	USD -	Unknown
1451		FACETIAE:--Contestheologiquessuivis des litanies des catholiques du dix huitiemesiecle et de poesies	Par.	1783	USD -	Unknown
1452		FACETIAE:--Court of Spain; or modern gallantry of the Spanish nobility unfolded	London	1693	USD -	Unknown
1453	Crockett (David)	FACETIAE:--Crockett (David), Narrative of the life of	Philadelphia	1834	USD -	Unknown
1454	Crockett (David)	FACETIAE:--Takings, or scenes in the life of an Oxford collegian	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1454a	D'Arnay (M.)	FACETIAE:--Private life of the Romans	Edinburgh	1701	USD -	Unknown
1455	Decker (T.)	FACETIAE:--Gull's hornbook		1812	USD -	Unknown
1456	De Foe (D.)	FACETIAE:--Moll Flanders, Fortunate mistress, and Life of Mrs. Davies	Oxford	1840	USD -	Unknown
1457	De Foe (Daniel)	FACETIAE:--Memoir of the life and adventures of Signor Rozelli at the Hague	London	1709	USD -	Unknown
1458	De Genlis (Countess)	FACETIAE:--Duchess de la Valliere and Mme	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
1459	De Koch (Paul)	FACETIAE:--Andrew the Savoyard	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1460	De La Motte (Countess)	FACETIAE:--De La Motte (Countess), Authentic adventures of	London	1787	USD -	Unknown
1461	De La Motte (H.)	FACETIAE:--OEuvres de	Paris	1754	USD -	Unknown
1462	De Monhy	FACETIAE:--Injured innocence, being the instructive and diverting memoirs of the Marquess of Fieux	London	1745	USD -	Unknown
1463	De Serviez	FACETIAE:--The Roman empresses, or the history of the lives and secret intrigues of the wives of the twelve Caesars and other Roman emperors, with notes, &c.	Dublin	1752	USD -	Unknown
1464		FACETIAE:--Devoires (Les) des grands, par Monseigneur Le Prince De Conty	Paris	1667	USD -	Unknown
1465		FACETIAE:--Devil (The) in love	New York	1810	USD -	Unknown
1466		FACETIAE:--Dodley's Fugitive pieces on various subjects	London	1771	USD -	Unknown
1467	D'Ormoy	FACETIAE:--Les malheurs de la jeune Emilie			USD -	Unknown
1468		FACETIAE:--Dreamer (The)	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
1469		FACETIAE:--Drudge (The), or the jealous extravagant; a piece of gallantry	London	1673	USD -	Unknown
1470		FACETIAE:--Dryden's Miscellaneous poems	London	1727	USD -	Unknown
1471	Dryden's (Jno.)	FACETIAE:--Dryden's (Jno.) Miscellaneous works, poems	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
1472		FACETIAE:--Du Ryer'sseneque du Repos	Paris	1651	USD -	Unknown
1473		FACETIAE:--Effusions of love, from Chatelar to Mary, queen of Scotland	London	1805	USD -	Unknown
1474	Egan (Pierce)	FACETIAE:--Life in London, or day and night scenes in the British metropolis	London		USD -	Unknown
1475		FACETIAE:--Elizabeth de Bruce	New York	1827	USD -	Unknown
1476		FACETIAE:--Elizabeth (Queen) and Earl of Essex, The secret history of the most renowned		1700	USD -	Unknown
1477		FACETIAE:--Elizabeth and Essex, Secret history of	Cologne		USD -	Unknown
1478		FACETIAE:--Essaisur l'histoire naturelle de quelquesespeces de moines		1734	USD -	Unknown
1479		FACETIAE:--Essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting	London	1757	USD -	Unknown
1480	Faublas	FACETIAE:--Les amours du Chevalier de Faublas	Paris	1821	USD -	Unknown
1481	Faublas	FACETIAE:--Idem	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
1482		FACETIAE:--Female Convents, secrets of nunneries disclosed	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
1483	Ferrand (J.)	FACETIAE:--A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptoms, &c.	Oxford	1640	USD -	Unknown
1485		FACETIAE:--Fielding's life of Jonathan Wild	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
1486	Fovargue (Stephen)	FACETIAE:--New catalogue of vulgar errors	Cambridge	1767	USD -	Unknown
1487	Flight (E. G.)	FACETIAE:--The true legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil	London		USD -	Unknown
1488		FACETIAE:--Gallery of literary morceaux	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1489		FACETIAE:--Gallick reports, or French criminal cases	London	1737	USD -	Unknown
1490	Gosse (M.)	FACETIAE:--The lovers of La Vendee	Middletown	1808	USD -	Unknown
1491		FACETIAE:--Gavarni, Les joyaux et les paruresfantaisie	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1492		FACETIAE:--Glossarium eroticum linguae Latinae, sive theogoniae, legum et morum nuptialium apud Romanos ex interpretatione propria et impropria, et differentiis in significato fere duorum millium sernonum			USD -	Unknown
1493	Goldsmith (Lewis)	FACETIAE:--Crimes of cabinets	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
1494	Grammont (Count)	FACETIAE:--Grammont (Count), Memoirs of	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
1495	Grammont (Count)	FACETIAE:--Memoir of the court of Charles II	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
1496	Granville (J. J.)	FACETIAE:--Metamorphoses du jour	Paris	1854	USD -	Unknown
1497	Gridling (S.)	FACETIAE:--The miniature	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
1498		FACETIAE:--Guellette's Mogul tales, or dreams of men awake	London		USD -	Unknown
1499	Guernsey (Countess of)	FACETIAE:--Guernsey (Countess of), Death-bed confessions of	Philadelphia	1822	USD -	Unknown
1500		FACETIAE:--Guillaume Le Franc, Parleur, ou observations sur les moeurs Francaises l'an 1800	Paris	1816	USD -	Unknown
1501	Hamilton (Lady Anne)	FACETIAE:--Secret history of the court of England from the accession of George III	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
1504	Hamilton's (Count)	FACETIAE:--Fairy tales and romances	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
1505	Hamilton (Lady Emma, wife of Sir W. Hamilton, ambassador to Naples, and friend of Lord Nelson)	FACETIAE:--Hamilton (Lady Emma, wife of Sir W. Hamilton, ambassador to Naples, and friend of Lord Nelson), Memoirs of	New York	1815	USD -	Unknown
1506	Hanger (Col. George)	FACETIAE:--Hanger (Col. George), Life	New York	1801	USD -	Unknown
1507	Harington (Sir John)	FACETIAE:--Nugaeantiquae, being a miscellaneous collection of original papers in prose and verse	London	1769	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.