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
1508 FACETIAE:--Harriette Wilson, Memoirs of London

1825

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1509 Harriott (J., resident magistrate of the Thames police) FACETIAE:--Struggles through life exemplified, in the various travels and adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

1809

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1510 Haywood (E.) FACETIAE:--Love letters, on all occasions, passed between persons of distinction London

1730

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1512 Heath (Wm.) FACETIAE:--Life of a soldier, a poem London

1823

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1513 FACETIAE:--Helvetius, Child of nature improved by chance London

1775

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1514 Henry and Frances FACETIAE:--A series of genuine letters between London

1770

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1515 FACETIAE:--Henri IV., Les amours de Amst.

1780

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1516 FACETIAE:--Herodian's history of the Roman emperors, containing many strange and wonderful revolutions of State in Europe, Asia, and Africa, &c. Lond.

1698

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1516a Hirzel FACETIAE:--Le Socraterustique, ou la description de la conduce economique et morale d'un payson philosophe Zurich

1764

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1517 FACETIAE:--History of Jack Connor London

1752

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1518 Hunt (Leigh) FACETIAE:--Wit and humor N. York

1847

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1519 FACETIAE:--Hyppolito and Aminta, The most entertaining history of London

1718

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1520 FACETIAE:--Jockey club (the), or a sketch of the manners of the age Dublin

1792

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1521 FACETIAE:--Joe Miller junior, a text book London

1850

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1522 Johnson (F. W.) FACETIAE:--Life of an odd fellow; or, truth without fiction Philadelphia

1845

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1523 FACETIAE:--Johnston's Chrysal, or the adventures of a guinea London

1764

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1524 FACETIAE:--Journal of the heart; edited by the authoress of Flirtation London

1835

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1525 FACETIAE:--Julia de Grammont London

1788

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1526 Lackington (the bookseller) FACETIAE:--Confessions; to which are added two letters on the bad consequences of having daughters educated at boarding schools

1804

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1527 La Fontaine, OEuvres de FACETIAE:--Nouvelle edition, revue, mise en ordre, et accompagnde de notes London

1797

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1528 FACETIAE:--L'art de faire l'amour, ou la pendule

USD - Unknown
1529 FACETIAE:--Lee's poetic impressions: a pocket-book with scraps, &c. London

1817

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1530 Lempriere (Wm.) FACETIAE:--Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogadore, Santa Cruz, &c. Lond.

1791

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1531 Le Suire FACETIAE:--French adventurers Dublin

1791

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1532 FACETIAE:--Letters from a Portuguese nun to an officer in the French army London

1817

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1533 FACETIAE:--Letters of Yorick and Eliza London

1807

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1534 Lewis (M. G.) FACETIAE:--Adelgitha, or the fruits of a single error New York

1812

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1535 Lewis (M. G.) FACETIAE:--Romantic tales New York

1809

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1536 Lewis (M. G.) FACETIAE:--Tales of wonder London

1801

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1537 Limbourg's (Dr.) FACETIAE:--New amusements of the German Spa London

1764

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1538 Longus FACETIAE:--Daphnis et Chloe Paris

1717

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1539 Longus FACETIAE:--Idem Lille

1792

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1540 Mde de FACETIAE:--Louis le Grande, king of the French, l'Asiatique Tolerant de Zeokinizul London

1779

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1541 FACETIAE:--Love letters between a nobleman (Ford, Lord Grey) and his sister (Henrietta, Countess of Berkeley), with their adventures London

1721

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1542 FACETIAE:--Love Tales and elegies, curious poems, &c. London

1775

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1543 FACETIAE:--Love upon tick, or implicit gallantry London

1724

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1544 FACETIAE:--Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, on its causes, &c. &c. London

1780

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1545 Maintenon (Mad. de) FACETIAE:--Maintenon (Mad. de), Memoirs of the history of, and of the last age Dublin

1757

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1546 Maintenon (Mad. de) FACETIAE:--Secret correspondence with the Princess des Urging London

1827

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1547 FACETIAE:--Male (the) Coquette, or seventeen hundred and fiftyseven London

1757

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1548 Mandeville (Bernard) FACETIAE:--Fable of the bees, or private vices public benefits London

1828

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1549 Mandeville (Lady Julia) FACETIAE:--Mandeville (Lady Julia), History of London

1763

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1550 FACETIAE:--Manley, Power of love London

1741

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1551 FACETIAE:--Manoulescaut; or, the fatal attachment London

1786

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1552 FACETIAE:--Marlborough, account of the Duchess of London

1740

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1553 FACETIAE:--Marlborough, Authentic memoirs of the life and conduct of Sarah, late Duchess of Marlborough London

1744

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1554 FACETIAE:--Martialisepigramata Leipsig

1825

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1555 FACETIAE:--Mary, Queen of Scots, Campbell's love letters of Lond.

USD - Unknown
1556 FACETIAE:--Mathews's trip to America, and Mathews at home Lond.

USD - Unknown
1557 FACETIAE:--Mayhews's toothache Philad.

1850

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1558 FACETIAE:--Memoires et aventures d'un homme de qualite Amst.

1739

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1559 FACETIAE:--Memoirs of Maria, Countess d'Alva Lond.

1808

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1560 FACETIAE:--Memoires du Comte de Comminge La Haye

1735

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1561 FACETIAE:--Memoirs of Signiora de Morell, a Roman lady who made her escape from a monastery for the love of a Scots nobleman Lond.

1728

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1562 Mercier (Du) FACETIAE:--The night-cap Dub.

1686

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1563 FACETIAE:--Metropolitan grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its vicinity

1812

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1564 FACETIAE:--Minstrel, or anecdotes of distinguished personages in the 16th century Philad.

1802

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1565 FACETIAE:--Miscellanea aurea, or the golden medley Lond.

1720

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1666 FACETIAE:--Moncrif's art of pleasing Kingston

USD - Unknown
1667 FACETIAE:--Monferrat (la Princesse de), contenant son histoire et les amours du Comte de Saluces Amst.

1676

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1668 Monnier (H.) FACETIAE:--Scenes populaires Paris

1846

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1669 Moore (T.) FACETIAE:--Loves of the angels Lond.

1823

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1670 Moore (T.) FACETIAE:--Little's poems Lond.

1806

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1671 FACETIAE:--Mornings at Bow street N. Y.

1826

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1672 Beroalde de Verville FACETIAE:--Moyen (le), de parvenir, oeuvre contenant la raison de tout cequiete et sera, etc. Par.

1841

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1673 FACETIAE:--Musarumdeliciae Lond.

1728

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1674 Nelson (Lord) FACETIAE:--Letters to Lady Hamilton Lond.

1814

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1676 Newman (Dr.) FACETIAE:--Fascination, or philosophy of charming N. Y.

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1677 FACETIAE:--New Newgate Calendar, or malefactors' bloody register Lond.

USD - Unknown
1678 FACETIAE:--Ninon de l'Enclos, Lettres de Paris

1806

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1679 Ninon de FACETIAE:--Ninon de Memoirs of, with her letters to Mons. de St. Evremond, &c. Philad.

1806

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1680 FACETIAE:--Nourjabad and Almoran and Hamet

USD - Unknown
1681 FACETIAE:--Novels: 1. Ecarte, or the salons of Paris New York

USD - Unknown
1682 FACETIAE:--Obadiah Oldbuck's adventures New York

1849

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1683 FACETIAE:--Odd Fellow's journal

1834

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1684 FACETIAE:--Odd (The) Volume, a collection of odds and ends in prose and verse New York

USD - Unknown
1685 FACETIAE:--Olla podrida, a periodical work Lond.

1788

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1686 FACETIAE:--Oran the outcast, or a season in New York New York

1833

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1687 Oldfield (Mrs.) FACETIAE:--Oldfield (Mrs.), Life London

1731

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1688 FACETIAE:--Our honeymoon, and other comicalities N. Y.

USD - Unknown
1689 FACETIAE:--Ovidiinasonis, Opera omnia

1824

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1690 Ovidiinasonis (P.) FACETIAE:--Metamorphosis libri cum commentariis Raphaelisregii Parma

1505

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1691 FACETIAE:--Ovid's metamorphoses London

1773

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1692 FACETIAE:--Ovid's art of love London

1808

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1693 FACETIAE:--Ovide, L'artd'aimer, suivi du remede d'amour Paris

1803

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1694 FACETIAE:--Owen Tudor, Life and amours of Owen Tideric, Prince of Wales London

1751

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1695 Paral (Sieur de) FACETIAE:--Comical history of Francion, satyrically exposing folly and vice in a variety of humors and adventures London

1703

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1696 Parry (James) FACETIAE:--True Anti Pamela, in which his intrigue with the celebrated Miss Powell London

1741

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1697 Pelham (Camden) FACETIAE:--Chronicles of crime, a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters London

1841

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1698 FACETIAE:--Peppergrass, Shandy Mcguire, or tricks upon travellers New York

1848

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1699 Petronius Arbiter FACETIAE:--Petronius Arbiter, The satirical works of London

1708

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1700 Phillips (Mrs. Teresia Constantia) FACETIAE:--Phillips (Mrs. Teresia Constantia), An apology for the conduct of

1748

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1701 Phillips (Mrs.) FACETIAE:--Phillips (Mrs.), Apology for the conduct of London

USD - Unknown
1702 Plancy (J. Collin de) FACETIAE:--Dictionnaire infernal, &c. Paris

1844

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1703 FACETIAE:--Pompadour, Letters of the Marchioness of London

1771

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1704 FACETIAE:--Pompomus, Adventures of London

1726

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1705 FACETIAE:--Princess of Wales, Inquiry into the conduct of London

1813

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1706 FACETIAE:--Private anecdotes of Foreign courts London

1827

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1707 FACETIAE:--Private memoirs of Mme. du Hausset, lady's maid to Mme. du Pompadour New York

1827

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1708 FACETIAE:--Private adventures of Mme. Vestris London

USD - Unknown
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