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
97		AMAZON:--AMERICAN biographical dictionary (imperfect)	New York	1801	USD -	Unknown
98	H. W. Herbert, editor	AMAZON:--AMERICAN monthly magazine	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
99		AMAZON:--AMERICAN military pocket atlas	London	1776	USD -	Unknown
100		AMAZON:--AMERICAN poets, selections from	Dublin	1834	USD -	Unknown
101		AMAZON:--AMERICAN remembrances; or an impartial collection of essays, resolves, speeches, &c.	Philadelphia	1795	USD -	Unknown
102	Robert Walsh, Esq., editor	AMAZON:--AMERICAN review of history and politics, and repository of literature and state papers, for 1811	Philadelphia and London	1811	USD -	Unknown
103	Rev. C. Glasscott	AMAZON:--AMERICAN war, sermon on the best method of putting an end to the	London	1776	USD -	Unknown
104	Alcedo (Don Antonia)	AMERICA:--Geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
105	Brissot's (J. P. de Warville)	AMERICA:--New travels in America, in 1788	New York	1794	USD -	Unknown
106		AMERICA:--Goodrich's pictorial history of America		1848	USD -	Unknown
107	Marryatt (Captain)	AMERICA:--First and second series of a diary in America	Philadelphia	1840	USD -	Unknown
108	Neff (Dr.)	AMERICA:--Army and navy of America, from the period of French and Indian wars to the close of the Florida war	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
109	Vigne (G. T.)	AMERICA:--Six months in America	Philadelphia	1833	USD -	Unknown
110		AMERICA:--AMERICUS Vespucius, Lester & Foster's life and voyages of	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
110a	AMES (Fisher)	AMERICA:--AMES (Fisher), Works of	Boston	1809	USD -	Unknown
111	AMICUS (C. B. C.)	AMERICA:--Hints on Life	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
112		AMERICA:--AMULET; a Christmas and new-year's present for 1846	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
113		AMERICA:--ANACHARSIS, Travels in Greece	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
114	Kelt	AMERICA:--ANCIENT English poetry, Headley's select beauties of		1810	USD -	Unknown
115	D'Anville (M.)	AMERICA:--ANCIENT geography, compendium of	New York	1814	USD -	Unknown
116	Andrews (J. H. Smith)	AMERICA:--Authentic narrative of the causes which led to the death of Major Andre	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
117		ANECDOTES:--Medical, chemical, and chirurgical	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
118	Fisher (P.)	ANGLING:--Angler's souvenir	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
119	Hackle (Palmer)	ANGLING:--Hints on angling			USD -	Unknown
120		ANGLING:--Walton and Cotton's Angler	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
121	Clayton (George)	ANGELS:--Angelology; remarks and reflections touching the agency and ministration of holy angels	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
122		ANGELS:--Angel (The) in the house. The betrothal and the espousals	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
123	Gage (J.)	ANGLO-SAXON:--The Anglo-Saxon ceremonial of the dedication and consecration of churches	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
124	Gage (J.)	ANGLO-SAXON:--A dissertation on St. Ethelwold's benedictional	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
125		ANGLO-SAXON:--Klipstein's Anglo-Saxon grammar	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
126		ANGLO-SAXON:--Handbook of Anglo-Saxon root words	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
127	Miller (Thos.)	ANGLO-SAXON:--History of the Anglo-Saxons	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
128		ANGLO-SAXON:--ANNUAL Register, or a view of politics, history, and literature	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
129	Anson (George Lord)	ANGLO-SAXON:--ANSON (Lord), Voyage round the world in 1740-44	Lond.	1794	USD -	Unknown
130		ANGLO-SAXON:--ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine, or Monthly Political and Literary Censor	London	1799	USD -	Unknown
131	Peabody (J. K.)	ANIMAL MAGNETISM:--World of wonders, showing the triumph of animal magnetism	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
132	Teste (A.)	ANIMAL MAGNETISM:--Animal magnetism	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
133		ANIMAL MAGNETISM:--ANONYMOUS (the), a collection of ana	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
133a		ANTIQUITIES:--Antiquitates Americanas		1837	USD -	Unknown
134	John Lakey	ANTIQUITIES:--Delafield (John, Jr.), An inquiry into the origin of the antiquities of America, with an appendix, and curious Aztec chart, &c.	New York	1839	USD -	Unknown
135	Squier (E. G.)	ANTIQUITIES:--The serpent symbol in America	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
136		ANTIQUITIES:--Abbeys of England. Ayloffe's Westminster...			USD -	Unknown
137	Bigsby (K.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Old places revisited; or, the antiquarian enthusiast	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
138		ANTIQUITIES:--Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of Bristol and the western counties of Great Britain	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
139		ANTIQUITIES:--Britton's History and antiquities of the cathedral church at Lincoln	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
140	Dugdale (Wm.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Curiosities of Great Britain, or England and Wales delineated	London		USD -	Unknown
141		ANTIQUITIES:--Eccleston's introduction to English antiquities	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
142		ANTIQUITIES:--Jenoway's selection of antiquarian and historical notes	Edinburgh	1823	USD -	Unknown
143	Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush)	ANTIQUITIES:--Painted illustrations of ancient arms and armor	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
145	Moss (W. G.)	ANTIQUITIES:--History and antiquities of the town and port of Hastings	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
146	Roy (Major Gen.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Military antiquities of the Romans in N. Britain, particularly their system of castrametation	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
147	Weaver (Thomas)	ANTIQUITIES:--Ancient funeral monuments within the united monarchie of Great Britain, Ireland, and the lands adjacent	London	1631	USD -	Unknown
148	Dr. Boyd	ANTIQUITIES:--Adams's Roman antiquities	Glasgow		USD -	Unknown
149	Clarke (E. D.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Tomb of Alexander, a dissertation on the sarcophagus brought from Alexandria	Cambridge	1805	USD -	Unknown
150	Develle (A.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Tombeaux de la cathedrale de Rouen	Rouen	1837	USD -	Unknown
151	Fiske	ANTIQUITIES:--Eschenburg's classical antiquities	Philadelphia	1845	USD -	Unknown
152		ANTIQUITIES:--Florgy's antiquities of Rome	Bruxelles	1836	USD -	Unknown
153	Fuss (J. D.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Roman antiquities	Oxford	1840	USD -	Unknown
154	Ainslie (H. R.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Herculaneum et Pompei: recueil general des peintures, bronzes, mosaiques	Paris	1848	USD -	Unknown
155	Kleiner (S. and J. A. Pfeffel)	ANTIQUITIES:--Delineatio templorum et eaenobtorum in Caesarea Urbe ae Vienna		1724	USD -	Unknown
156	Lumsden (A.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Antiquities of Rome and its environs	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
157	Mommsen (Theodor)	ANTIQUITIES:--Inscriptiones regni Neapolitani Latinae	Lips.	1852	USD -	Unknown
158		ANTIQUITIES:--Monumenti Antichi delle Ville E. D. pice notabili			USD -	Unknown
159		ANTIQUITIES:--Monuments de Paris cathedrales et chateaux de la France			USD -	Unknown
160	Nevin (Dr.)	ANTIQUITIES:--Summary of biblical antiquities	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
161		ANTIQUITIES:--Rollin's ancient history...	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
162		ANTIQUITIES:--Salome Palmyrene inscriptiones	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
163		ANTIQUITIES:--Visconti, Descrizioni ed illustrazioni de antichi monumenti de Museo Francese			USD -	Unknown
164	Aubrey (J.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Miscellanies upon various subjects; apparitions, dreams, &c.	London	1784	USD -	Unknown
165	Begbie (Major P. L.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Supernatural illusions	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
166	Blair (Mrs.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Dreams and dreaming	London		USD -	Unknown
167	Boismont (A.B. de)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Hallucinations, or the rational history of apparitions, visions, dreams, ecstacy, magnetism, and somnambulism	Philadelphia	1853	USD -	Unknown
168	Brewster (D.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Natural magic and martyrs of science	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
169	Christmas (H.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Echoes of the universe from the world of matter and the world of spirit	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
170	Crowe (C.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Night side of nature, or ghosts and ghost seers	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
171		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Curry (Dr. J.), observations on apparent death	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
172	Defoe (D.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--History and reality of apparitions	Oxford	1840	USD -	Unknown
173		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Frazer's Day and night, or divine truths in nocturnal and diurnal phenomena			USD -	Unknown
174	Godwin (Wm.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Lives of the necromancers	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
175		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Ghostly colloquies	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
176		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Gosthunter and his family	Philadelphia	1833	USD -	Unknown
177	Hibbert (S.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Sketches of the philosophy of apparitions	Edinburgh	1825	USD -	Unknown
178	Hutchinson (Dr. F.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Historical essay concerning witchcraft	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
179		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Newham's essay on superstition	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
180	Ollier (C.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories of witchcraft, &c.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
181	Poyntz (A.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--A world of wonders, with anecdotes and opinions concerning popular superstitions	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
182		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Remarkable visions. From the German	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
183	Stilling (Dr. J. H.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Theory of Pneumatology	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
184		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Supernaturalism of New England	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
185	Thompson's (Dr. A. T.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Philosophy of magic, prodigies, and apparent miracles	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
186		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Timbs' Popular errors explained and illustrated	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
187	Welby (Horace)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Signs before death, and authenticated apparitions	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
188		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Whitman on superstition, &c.			USD -	Unknown
189		APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Wonderful Magazine			USD -	Unknown
190	Wright (Tho.)	APPARITIONS, DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, PRODIGIES, WONDERS, SLEEPWALKERS, &C.:--Essays on literature, popular superstitions, &c. &c.	London	1846	USD -	Unknown
191	Wellstead (Lieut.)	ARABIA:--Travels in Arabia	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
192		ARABIA:--Arabian nights entertainments	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
193		ARABIA:--Arabian nights entertainments			USD -	Unknown
194		ARABIA:--Tausend und eine Nacht	Stuttgard	1838	USD -	Unknown
195		ARABIA:--ARBITRARY power, Popery and Protestantism	Philadelphia	1842	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.