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
2111		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Foster Report of the Geology of Lake Superior, &c.	Washington	1850	USD -	Unknown
2112		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Geological and agricultural survey of Rensselaer county, New York	Albany	1822	USD -	Unknown
2113	Humboldt (Alex. de)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Geognostical essay on the superposition of rocks in both hemispheres	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
2114	Lee (C. A.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Elements of geology for popular use	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2115	Lyell (C.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Lectures on geology in New York		1842	USD -	Unknown
2116	Lyell (C.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Manual of elementary geology	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2117	Mammatt (Ed.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Collection of geological facts, and practical observations on the Ashby coal fields	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
2118		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mantell, Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
2119		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Map of the mineral lands in the Lake Superior district			USD -	Unknown
2120	Mease (Jas.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--A geological account of the United States	Phila.	1807	USD -	Unknown
2121	Mill (J.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Fossil spirit: a boy's dream of geology	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2122		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mineral regions of Lake Superior	Detroit	1846	USD -	Unknown
2123		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mining, A collection of pamphlets on	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2124		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mining journal			USD -	Unknown
2125		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mining magazine		1855	USD -	Unknown
2126		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mining: parliamentary reports on the ventilation of mines, explosions, &c.	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2127		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mining: United Mexican mining association	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2128		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Mitchell's Manual of practical assaying	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2129	Owen (D. D.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Report of the geology of Iowa, Wisconsin, &c.		1844	USD -	Unknown
2130	Owen (David Dale)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Report of the geological survey of Kentucky, made during the years 1854-55	Frankford	1856	USD -	Unknown
2131	Owen (David Dale)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota	phila.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2132	Percival (J. G).	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Geological sketch of Wisconsin	Madison	1853	USD -	Unknown
2133	Phillips (J.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Treatise on geology	Edinb.	1837	USD -	Unknown
2134	Phillips (J.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Guide to geology	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2135		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--St. John's True description of the Lake Superior country and copper mines	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2136	Taylor's (R. C.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Reports on the coal lands, mines, and improvements of the Dauphin and Susquehanna coal company, and of the geological examinations, &c.	Phila.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2137	Taylor's (R. C.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Statistics of coal	Phila.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2137a	Taylor's (R. C.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Idem, 1st edition			USD -	Unknown
2138		GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Transactions of the geological society of Pennsylvania		1834	USD -	Unknown
2139	Tuomey (M.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Report of the geology of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	1850	USD -	Unknown
2140	Tuomey (M.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Report of the geology of South Carolina	Columbia	1848	USD -	Unknown
2141	Webster (Dr. J. W.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Description of the Island of St. Michael	Bost.	1821	USD -	Unknown
2142	Young (Dr.)	GEOLOGY, MINERALS, MINING, &C.:--Scriptural geology	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
2143	Arthur (T. S.)	GEORGIA:--History of Georgia	Philad.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2144		GEORGIA:--Georgia Historical Society collections	Savannah	1840	USD -	Unknown
2145		GEORGIA:--Historical collections of the State of Georgia	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2146	M'Call (Capt. Hugh)	GEORGIA:--History of Georgia	Savannah	1811	USD -	Unknown
2147	Meades (Dr.)	GEORGIA:--Sermon at the consecration of Rev. Dr. Elliott	Wash.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2148	Miller (Stephen)	GEORGIA:--Bench and bar of Georgia; memoirs and sketches	Philad.	1858	USD -	Unknown
2148a	Barre (P.)	GERMANY:--Histoire generale d'Allemagne depuis l'an de Rome	Paris	1748	USD -	Unknown
2149		GERMANY:--Blaye du Bury's Memoirs of the Princess Palatine, princess of Bohemia	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2150		GERMANY:--Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V. and his ambassadors at the courts of England and France; and the emperor's itinerary from 1519 to 1551		1850	USD -	Unknown
2151	Drummond (Alex.)	GERMANY:--Travels through Germany, Italy, Greece, and Asia	Lond.	1756	USD -	Unknown
2152		GERMANY:--Histoire generale d'Allemagne	Paris	1748	USD -	Unknown
2153	Keysler (J. G.)	GERMANY:--Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorraine	Lond.	1709	USD -	Unknown
2154		GERMANY:--Pictorial history of Germany during the reign of Frederic the Great			USD -	Unknown
2155	Mitchell (Lt. Col.)	GERMANY:--Life of Wallenstein	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2156	Abtheilung (Erste)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Historisches magazin fur Berstand und Hers	Strasburg	1819	USD -	Unknown
2157	Baud (J. P.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Hebels Berte		1847	USD -	Unknown
2158		GERMAN BOOKS:--Baskerville's Raufmannifcher Briefgleller		1856	USD -	Unknown
2159		GERMAN BOOKS:--Goethe's Faust		1852	USD -	Unknown
2160		GERMAN BOOKS:--Goethe's Faust. Auserlesene Werke, sammtliche Gedichte und eine Auswahl seiner dramatischen und seiner ubrigen Werke enthaltend	Paris	1844	USD -	Unknown
2161		GERMAN BOOKS:--Goethe's Sammtliche Werke	Stuttgart	1854	USD -	Unknown
2162	Heine (H.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Buch der Fieder	Hamburg		USD -	Unknown
2163		GERMAN BOOKS:--Historisches Taschenbuch Berausgegeben von Friedrich von Raumer	Leipzig	1854	USD -	Unknown
2164		GERMAN BOOKS:--Kaltschmidt's Nouveau dictionnaire, French and German, and German and French	Leipzig		USD -	Unknown
2165	Mole (H.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Nouveau dictionnaire, French and German, and German and French	Brunswick		USD -	Unknown
2166	Moschkisker's (F. A.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Guide to German literature; or, manual to facilitate an acquaintance with the German classic authors	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2167		GERMAN BOOKS:--Oehlschlager's German-English and English-German pocket dictionary	Philad.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2168		GERMAN BOOKS:--Ollendorf's German grammar	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2169		GERMAN BOOKS:--Schmitthenner-Ursprachlehre, Entwurf in einem System in der Grammatik, mit besruderer Rucksicht auf die Sprachen des Indischtentschen Stammes; das Sanskit, das Persische, die Slavischen, &c.	Frankfurt am Main	1826	USD -	Unknown
2170	Steiner (H.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--German reader	N. Y.	1816	USD -	Unknown
2170a		GERMAN BOOKS:--Tausend und eine Nacht, Arabische Erzahlungen, zum erstenmale aus dem Arabischen	Stuttgart	1838	USD -	Unknown
2171		GERMAN BOOKS:--Thibault, Nouveau dictionnaire Francais-Allemand et Allemand-Francais	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2172	Thieme (F. W.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--New and complete critical dictionary of the English and German languages	Leipzig	1854	USD -	Unknown
2173	GIBBON'S (Edw.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--GIBBON'S (Edw.) Miscellaneous works	Lond.	1796	USD -	Unknown
2174	GILES (H.)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Lectures and essays	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2175	GILFILLAN'S (Rev. George)	GERMAN BOOKS:--Christianity of our Era; a book for the times	Edinb.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2176		GERMAN BOOKS:--GILMAN'S Forest life	N. Y.	1842	USD -	Unknown
2177	Borrow (George)	GIPSIES:--Account of the Gipsies of Spain	Philad.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2178	Borrow (George)	GIPSIES:--Gipsies of Spain	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2179		GIPSIES:--Crabb's Gipsies' advocate	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
2180		GIPSIES:--Gipsy bride; or, the miser's daughter	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2181	GIRARDIN (E. de)	GIPSIES:--Stories of an old maid relative to her nephews and nieces	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2182	GLOBE (N. Y.)	GIPSIES:--daily edition, various Nos	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2183	GLOBE (N. Y.)	GIPSIES:--weekly edition	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2184		GIPSIES:--GLOVER'S Memoirs of a celebrated literary and political character	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
2185	GOETHE	GIPSIES:--Poetry and truth from very life	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2186		GIPSIES:--GODEY'S and Graham's Magazine			USD -	Unknown
2187		GIPSIES:--GODEY'S Lady's book		1850	USD -	Unknown
2188	GODWIN (Wm.)	GIPSIES:--St. Leon; a tale of the XVI. century	Lond.	1816	USD -	Unknown
2189	GODWIN (Wm.)	GIPSIES:--Transfusion	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
2190	GODWIN (P.)	GIPSIES:--Vala, a mythological tale	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2191		GIPSIES:--GOERCE Jood se Oud heden oste, Voor-bereidsehn tot de Bybelsche Wyscheid	Amst.		USD -	Unknown
2192	Brooks (C. T. )	GIPSIES:--GOETHE'S Faust, a tragedy		1858	USD -	Unknown
2193		GIPSIES:--GOETHE'S Fuller's conversations with	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2194		GIPSIES:--GOETHE'S Herman and Dorothea	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2195		GIPSIES:--GOETHE'S Sorrows of Werter	Bost.	1824	USD -	Unknown
2196		GIPSIES:--GOETHE'S Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship		1840	USD -	Unknown
2196a		GIPSIES:--GOLD worshippers (The), or the days we live in, a future historical romance	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2197	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.), A biography of	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2198	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.) Essays			USD -	Unknown
2199	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.) Miscellaneous works	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2201	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.), Poetical works		1854	USD -	Unknown
2202	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.) Miscellaneous works	Paris	1837	USD -	Unknown
2203	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.) Life and writings	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2204	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--GOLDSMITH (O.) Poems	Lond.	1822	USD -	Unknown
2205	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--Vicar of Wakefield	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2206	GOLDSMITH (O.)	GIPSIES:--Vicar of Wakefield		1856	USD -	Unknown
2207		GIPSIES:--GOOCH'S Sherwood forest; or, Northern adventures	Lond.	1806	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.