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
1709 FACETIAE:--Private history of the court of England

1805

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1710 FACETIAE:--Royal investigation, or authentic documents containing the acquittal of H. R. H. the P----ss of W----s London

1808

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1711 FACETIAE:--Spirit of the book, or memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hapsburgh, a political and amatory romance

1811

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1712 FACETIAE:--Pylades and Corrinna, or memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett and Mrs. E. Thomas, during a courtship of above sixteen years London

1731

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1713 FACETIAE:--Queen Caroline's trial. Proceedings on the bill of pains and penalties, &c. London

1805

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1714 FACETIAE:--The attorney general's charges against the latequeen Lond.

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1715 Quevedo (Don Francisco) FACETIAE:--Quevedo (Don Francisco), The visions of Lond.

1689

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1716 FACETIAE:--Quodlibet, containing some annals thereof Philad.

1840

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1717 FACETIAE:--Rabelais's works

1844

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1718 FACETIAE:--Rabutin. Letters de M. Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Amst.

1788

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1719 FACETIAE:--Reverie, or a flight to the paradise of fools Dub.

1776

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1720 FACETIAE:--Revived fugitive, a gallant historical novel Lond.

1690

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1721 Reynolds (G. W.) FACETIAE:--Alfred, or the adventures of a French gentleman Lond.

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1722 Reynolds (G. W. M.) FACETIAE:--Reynolds (G. W. M.), Works of Lond.

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1723 Richelieu (Marechal) FACETIAE:--Vie privee, contenantses amours et intrigues, etc. Paris

1791

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1724 FACETIAE:--Rochefoucault's maxims Lond.

1775

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1725 FACETIAE:--Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset's works Lond.

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1726 Rochester (John, Earl of) FACETIAE:--Rochester (John, Earl of), Works of Lond.

1775

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1727 FACETIAE:--Rolliad (The), Probationary odes for the laureateship, and political miscellanies

1795

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1728 FACETIAE:--Romantic tales, comprising Wandering spirit, Zoa, Raymond and Agnes, Selim and Almena, Phoebe, Philips, Bampfylde Moore Carew, &c. &c. Philad.

1856

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1729 Rousseau's (J. J.) FACETIAE:--Confessions N. Y.

1858

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1730 Rousseau's (J. J.) FACETIAE:--Les confessions Paris

1846

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1731 Rousseau's (J. J.) FACETIAE:--Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise Paris

1845

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1732 FACETIAE:--St.Evremond's works Lond.

1728

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1733 FACETIAE:--Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances, or what may be said, did, or invented Philad.

1853

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1734 FACETIAE:--Clockmaker, or the sayings and doings of Sam Slick

1839

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1735 FACETIAE:--Satirist (The) Wash.

1832

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1736 Schurigii (Martin) FACETIAE:--Gynaecologia historico-medica hoc est congressus muliebris

1730

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1737 FACETIAE:--Secret history of Burgundy, or the amours and political intrigues of Charles and Louis XI Lond.

1723

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1738 FACETIAE:--Secret history of Queen Elizabeth and Earl of Essex Cologne

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1739 FACETIAE:--Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes Lond.

1709

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1740 FACETIAE:--Secret memoirs of the court of Petersburg, and particularly during the end of the reign of Catharine II Philad.

1802

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1740a Secundus (J.) FACETIAE:--Secundus (J.), The poems of Lond.

1809

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1741 FACETIAE:--Seneque de Repos Paris

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1742 Sharp (J.) FACETIAE:--Sharp (J.), Life Lond.

1797

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1743 Smith (Albert) FACETIAE:--The wassail bowl, a comic Christmas sketch-book Lond.

1844

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1744 Smith (E.) FACETIAE:--Smith's (E.) Works Lond.

1719

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1745 FACETIAE:--Socraterustique (Le) Zurich

1764

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1746 Staudt (J. B.) FACETIAE:--De jure facetiarum Jenae

1688

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1747 Sterne (L.) FACETIAE:--Sentimental journey through France and Italy Lond.

1768

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1748 Stevens (G. A.) FACETIAE:--Dramatic history of Master Edward (Ned Shuter, the actor) Lond.

1786

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1749 Stevens (G. A.) FACETIAE:--Adventures of a speculist, or a journey through London Lond.

1778

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1750 Snift (Dean) FACETIAE:--Pinch of snuff, &c. &c. Lond.

1840

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1751 FACETIAE:--Swift, Tale of a tub, and battle of ancient and modern books Dub.

1741

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1752 FACETIAE:--Sylva, or the wood; collection of anecdotes, dissertations, characters, bon mots, &c. Lond.

1786

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1753 FACETIAE:--Temptation, or a wife's perils Lond.

1839

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1754 FACETIAE:--Tessier'sabrege de la vie de divers princes Chester

1710

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1755 Thompson (H. F.) FACETIAE:--Intrigues of a nabob, or Bengal the fittest soil for the growth of lust and injustice

1780

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1756 FACETIAE:--Tin trumpet, or heads and tales for the wise and waggish

1836

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1757 FACETIAE:--Town talk, The fish pool, The plebeian, The old whig, The spinster, &c. Dub.

1790

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1758 FACETIAE:--Trials for criminal conversation, &c. Lond.

1790

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1759 Trueba (Don T.) FACETIAE:--The incognito, or sins and peccadilloes N. Y.

1831

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1760 Vaux (James Hardy, a felon transported to New South Wales) FACETIAE:--Vaux (James Hardy, a felon transported to New South Wales), Memoirs of

1819

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1761 FACETIAE:--Venus unmasked, or an inquiry into the nature and origin of love, and a curious account of several modern amours Lond.

1759

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1762 FACETIAE:--Voiture's works Lond.

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1763 FACETIAE:--Volsidor et Zulmenie Amsterdam

1776

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1764 FACETIAE:--Voltaire's romances and tales Lond.

1794

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1766 Ward (Ned) FACETIAE:--The forgiving husband and the adulterous wife Lond.

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1767 Ward (Edward) FACETIAE:--Nuptial dialogues and debates Philad.

1811

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1768 FACETIAE:--Wild oats sown abroad Philad.

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1769 FACETIAE:--Wife and the mistress Lond.

1803

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1770 Woodward (G. M.) FACETIAE:--Eccentric excursions, or literary and pictorial sketches in different parts of England and South Wales Lond.

1796

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1772 FAIRFIELD (S. F.) FACETIAE:--Cities of the Plain, &c. Philad.

1828

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1773 FACETIAE:--FAIRY tales from all nations. Montalba N. Y.

1850

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1774 FACETIAE:--FALCONER'S shipwreck N. Y.

1827

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1775 FACETIAE:--FARMER'S letters to the people of England Lond.

1768

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1777 FACEIAE:--FAMILY Lyceum Boston

1833

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1778 FACEIAE:--FATHER Oswald; a Catholic story N.Y.

1845

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1779 FACEIAE:--FAVORITE English poems of the last two centuries Lond.

1859

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1780 FAY (T. S.) FACEIAE:--Hoboken: a romance N. Y.

1843

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1781 FENELON'S (Abp.) FACEIAE:--Telemachus Lond.

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1782 FACEIAE:--FEDERALIST (the), A collection of essays

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1783 FACEIAE:--FEDERALIST (the) With an appendix containing the letters of Papius and Helvidius, on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793 Hallowell

1857

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1784 FENCING:--McArthur's theory and practice of fencing, small sword exercise, &c. Lond.

1784

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1785 FENCING:--FENELON, Les aventures de Telemaque, avec dictionnaire mythologique Lond.

1742

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1786 FENCING:--FENELON, Selections from the writings of Bost.

1851

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1787 FENNELL (James) FENCING:--FENNELL (James), Apology for the life of Phila.

1814

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1788 FENCING:--FIELDING'S works (Tom Jones, Amelia, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Andrews, plays, essays, and miscellanies)

1848

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1789 FIELDING'S (H.) FENCING:--Amelia Lond.

1832

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1790 FIELDING'S (H.) FENCING:--Idem N. Y.

1852

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1791 FINE ARTS--Agincourt, Histoire de l'art par les monumens, depuis sa decadence au IV Paris

1823

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1792 FINE ARTS--Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers Lond.

1855

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1793 FINE ARTS--Examples of ornament, selected chiefly from works of art in the British museum, &c. Lond.

1855

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1794 FINE ARTS--A general view of the Fine Arts, critical and historical N. Y.

1851

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1796 FINE ARTS--Fuseli, Lectures on painting Lond.

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1797 Gould (J.) FINE ARTS--Biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, and architects Lond.

1838

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1798 FINE ARTS--Jameson's Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine arts Lond.

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1798a FINE ARTS--Jameson's Legend of the Monastic orders, as represented in the fine arts Lond.

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1799 Jones (Owen) FINE ARTS--Illuminated books of the middle ages

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1800 Jones (Owen) FINE ARTS--Divers works of early masters in ecclesiastical decoration

1846

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1801 FINE ARTS--Knight's vases and ornaments, designed for the use of architects, silversmiths, &c. Lond.

1833

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1802 FINE ARTS--Drawing-book of the human figure phila.

1856

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1803 Millin (A. L.) FINE ARTS--Dictionnaire des beaux arts Paris

1838

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1803b FINE ARTS--Raccolta, di cento tavole rappresentanti costumi religiosi civili e militari, degli antichi Roma

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1803a FINE ARTS--Orleans Gems. Description des principales Pierres Gravees du cabinet du Duc d'Orleans Paris

1780

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1804 Taylor (W. B. S.) FINE ARTS--Origin, progress, and present condition of the fine arts in Great Britain and Ireland Lond.

1841

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1805 FINE ARTS--Vasari's lives of the most celebrated painters, sculptors, and architects Lond.

1850

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1806 Walpole (H.) FINE ARTS--Anecdotes of painting in England Lond.

1849

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1806a FINE ARTS--Warrington's history of stained glass from the earliest period of the art to the present time Lond.

1848

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1807 Winckelmann's (Abbe) FINE ARTS--Description des Pierres Gravees du feu Baron de Stosch dediee a son eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal Alexander Florence

1760

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