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	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1510	Haywood (E.)	FACETIAE:--Love letters, on all occasions, passed between persons of distinction	London	1730	USD -	Unknown
1512	Heath (Wm.)	FACETIAE:--Life of a soldier, a poem	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
1513		FACETIAE:--Helvetius, Child of nature improved by chance	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
1514	Henry and Frances	FACETIAE:--A series of genuine letters between	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
1515		FACETIAE:--Henri IV., Les amours de	Amst.	1780	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1516a	Hirzel	FACETIAE:--Le Socraterustique, ou la description de la conduce economique et morale d'un payson philosophe	Zurich	1764	USD -	Unknown
1517		FACETIAE:--History of Jack Connor	London	1752	USD -	Unknown
1518	Hunt (Leigh)	FACETIAE:--Wit and humor	N. York	1847	USD -	Unknown
1519		FACETIAE:--Hyppolito and Aminta, The most entertaining history of	London	1718	USD -	Unknown
1520		FACETIAE:--Jockey club (the), or a sketch of the manners of the age	Dublin	1792	USD -	Unknown
1521		FACETIAE:--Joe Miller junior, a text book	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1522	Johnson (F. W.)	FACETIAE:--Life of an odd fellow; or, truth without fiction	Philadelphia	1845	USD -	Unknown
1523		FACETIAE:--Johnston's Chrysal, or the adventures of a guinea	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
1524		FACETIAE:--Journal of the heart; edited by the authoress of Flirtation	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1525		FACETIAE:--Julia de Grammont	London	1788	USD -	Unknown
1526	Lackington (the bookseller)	FACETIAE:--Confessions; to which are added two letters on the bad consequences of having daughters educated at boarding schools		1804	USD -	Unknown
1527	La Fontaine, OEuvres de	FACETIAE:--Nouvelle edition, revue, mise en ordre, et accompagnde de notes	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1530	Lempriere (Wm.)	FACETIAE:--Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogadore, Santa Cruz, &c.	Lond.	1791	USD -	Unknown
1531	Le Suire	FACETIAE:--French adventurers	Dublin	1791	USD -	Unknown
1532		FACETIAE:--Letters from a Portuguese nun to an officer in the French army	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
1533		FACETIAE:--Letters of Yorick and Eliza	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
1534	Lewis (M. G.)	FACETIAE:--Adelgitha, or the fruits of a single error	New York	1812	USD -	Unknown
1535	Lewis (M. G.)	FACETIAE:--Romantic tales	New York	1809	USD -	Unknown
1536	Lewis (M. G.)	FACETIAE:--Tales of wonder	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
1537	Limbourg's (Dr.)	FACETIAE:--New amusements of the German Spa	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
1538	Longus	FACETIAE:--Daphnis et Chloe	Paris	1717	USD -	Unknown
1539	Longus	FACETIAE:--Idem	Lille	1792	USD -	Unknown
1540	Mde de	FACETIAE:--Louis le Grande, king of the French, l'Asiatique Tolerant de Zeokinizul	London	1779	USD -	Unknown
1541		FACETIAE:--Love letters between a nobleman (Ford, Lord Grey) and his sister (Henrietta, Countess of Berkeley), with their adventures	London	1721	USD -	Unknown
1542		FACETIAE:--Love Tales and elegies, curious poems, &c.	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
1543		FACETIAE:--Love upon tick, or implicit gallantry	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
1544		FACETIAE:--Thelyphthora; or, a treatise on female ruin, on its causes, &c. &c.	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
1545	Maintenon (Mad. de)	FACETIAE:--Maintenon (Mad. de), Memoirs of the history of, and of the last age	Dublin	1757	USD -	Unknown
1546	Maintenon (Mad. de)	FACETIAE:--Secret correspondence with the Princess des Urging	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
1547		FACETIAE:--Male (the) Coquette, or seventeen hundred and fiftyseven	London	1757	USD -	Unknown
1548	Mandeville (Bernard)	FACETIAE:--Fable of the bees, or private vices public benefits	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
1549	Mandeville (Lady Julia)	FACETIAE:--Mandeville (Lady Julia), History of	London	1763	USD -	Unknown
1550		FACETIAE:--Manley, Power of love	London	1741	USD -	Unknown
1551		FACETIAE:--Manoulescaut; or, the fatal attachment	London	1786	USD -	Unknown
1552		FACETIAE:--Marlborough, account of the Duchess of	London	1740	USD -	Unknown
1553		FACETIAE:--Marlborough, Authentic memoirs of the life and conduct of Sarah, late Duchess of Marlborough	London	1744	USD -	Unknown
1554		FACETIAE:--Martialisepigramata	Leipsig	1825	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1558		FACETIAE:--Memoires et aventures d'un homme de qualite	Amst.	1739	USD -	Unknown
1559		FACETIAE:--Memoirs of Maria, Countess d'Alva	Lond.	1808	USD -	Unknown
1560		FACETIAE:--Memoires du Comte de Comminge	La Haye	1735	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1562	Mercier (Du)	FACETIAE:--The night-cap	Dub.	1686	USD -	Unknown
1563		FACETIAE:--Metropolitan grievances; or, a serio-comic glance at minor mischiefs in London and its vicinity		1812	USD -	Unknown
1564		FACETIAE:--Minstrel, or anecdotes of distinguished personages in the 16th century	Philad.	1802	USD -	Unknown
1565		FACETIAE:--Miscellanea aurea, or the golden medley	Lond.	1720	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1668	Monnier (H.)	FACETIAE:--Scenes populaires	Paris	1846	USD -	Unknown
1669	Moore (T.)	FACETIAE:--Loves of the angels	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
1670	Moore (T.)	FACETIAE:--Little's poems	Lond.	1806	USD -	Unknown
1671		FACETIAE:--Mornings at Bow street	N. Y.	1826	USD -	Unknown
1672	Beroalde de Verville	FACETIAE:--Moyen (le), de parvenir, oeuvre contenant la raison de tout cequiete et sera, etc.	Par.	1841	USD -	Unknown
1673		FACETIAE:--Musarumdeliciae	Lond.	1728	USD -	Unknown
1674	Nelson (Lord)	FACETIAE:--Letters to Lady Hamilton	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
1676	Newman (Dr.)	FACETIAE:--Fascination, or philosophy of charming	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
1677		FACETIAE:--New Newgate Calendar, or malefactors' bloody register	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1678		FACETIAE:--Ninon de l'Enclos, Lettres de	Paris	1806	USD -	Unknown
1679	Ninon de	FACETIAE:--Ninon de Memoirs of, with her letters to Mons. de St. Evremond, &c.	Philad.	1806	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1683		FACETIAE:--Odd Fellow's journal		1834	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1686		FACETIAE:--Oran the outcast, or a season in New York	New York	1833	USD -	Unknown
1687	Oldfield (Mrs.)	FACETIAE:--Oldfield (Mrs.), Life	London	1731	USD -	Unknown
1688		FACETIAE:--Our honeymoon, and other comicalities	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
1689		FACETIAE:--Ovidiinasonis, Opera omnia		1824	USD -	Unknown
1690	Ovidiinasonis (P.)	FACETIAE:--Metamorphosis libri cum commentariis Raphaelisregii	Parma	1505	USD -	Unknown
1691		FACETIAE:--Ovid's metamorphoses	London	1773	USD -	Unknown
1692		FACETIAE:--Ovid's art of love	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
1693		FACETIAE:--Ovide, L'artd'aimer, suivi du remede d'amour	Paris	1803	USD -	Unknown
1694		FACETIAE:--Owen Tudor, Life and amours of Owen Tideric, Prince of Wales	London	1751	USD -	Unknown
1695	Paral (Sieur de)	FACETIAE:--Comical history of Francion, satyrically exposing folly and vice in a variety of humors and adventures	London	1703	USD -	Unknown
1696	Parry (James)	FACETIAE:--True Anti Pamela, in which his intrigue with the celebrated Miss Powell	London	1741	USD -	Unknown
1697	Pelham (Camden)	FACETIAE:--Chronicles of crime, a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
1698		FACETIAE:--Peppergrass, Shandy Mcguire, or tricks upon travellers	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
1699	Petronius Arbiter	FACETIAE:--Petronius Arbiter, The satirical works of	London	1708	USD -	Unknown
1700	Phillips (Mrs. Teresia Constantia)	FACETIAE:--Phillips (Mrs. Teresia Constantia), An apology for the conduct of		1748	USD -	Unknown
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	USD -	Unknown
1703		FACETIAE:--Pompadour, Letters of the Marchioness of	London	1771	USD -	Unknown
1704		FACETIAE:--Pompomus, Adventures of	London	1726	USD -	Unknown
1705		FACETIAE:--Princess of Wales, Inquiry into the conduct of	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
1706		FACETIAE:--Private anecdotes of Foreign courts	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
1707		FACETIAE:--Private memoirs of Mme. du Hausset, lady's maid to Mme. du Pompadour	New York	1827	USD -	Unknown
1708		FACETIAE:--Private adventures of Mme. Vestris	London		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.