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
2809	Montgomery (James)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Lectures on general literature, poetry, &c.	N. Y.	1837	USD -	Unknown
2810	Nicolas (N. H.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Refutation of Mr. Palgrave's remarks in reply to observations on the state of historical literature	Lond.	1831	USD -	Unknown
2811	Nichols (J.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Biographical and literary anecdotes of Wm. Bowyer and his learned friends	Lond.	1782	USD -	Unknown
2812	Nichols (John)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century		1812	USD -	Unknown
2813		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Notes and queries; a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, &c.	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2814	Poole's (W. F. M.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Index to periodical literature	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2815		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Printing machine (The), or companion to the library	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
2816	Dr. Spencer	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Rycroft's course of English reading	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2817		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Retrospective review	Lond.	1820	USD -	Unknown
2818		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Saunders, Salad for the solitary	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2819		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Scribbliomania, or the printer's devil's polichronicon	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
2820	Sear's (B.), Edward's (B. B.), and Felton (C. C.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Essays on ancient literature and art	Bost.	1849	USD -	Unknown
2821	Shelley (Mrs.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Lives of the most eminent French writers	Phila.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2822		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Soane's New curiosities of literature	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2823	Tannehill (Wilkins)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Sketches of the history of literature from the earliest period to the revival of letters in the 15th century	Nash.	1827	USD -	Unknown
2824	Thomson's (Mrs.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Memoirs of literary characters and celebrated places	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2825	Thompson (Rev. H.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--History of Roman literature	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2826	Ticknor (G.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--History of Spanish literature	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
2827		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Troubadours, their history, customs, morals, &c., of the twelfth and fifteenth centuries	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
2828		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Varieties of literature, from foreign literary journals and original MSS. Now first published	Lond.	1795	USD -	Unknown
2829	Warton (Rev. Thos.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Warton (Rev. Thos.), Literary works			USD -	Unknown
2830	Warton (Rev. Thos.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Essay on Pope, essay on Spenser, poems, notes on Milton, life of Pope	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2831		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Young gentleman's library	Phila.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2832		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LIVES of eminent men		1833	USD -	Unknown
2833		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LIVES of the illustrious	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2834		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LIVES of the English poets-laureate, from the earliest times to the present		1853	USD -	Unknown
2835	LIVINGSTON (Wm.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Sedgwick's (Th.) Life of	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
2836	LOCKE (John)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Lives of John Locke, A. Sidney, and A. Shaftesbury	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2837	LOCKE	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LOCKE'S works	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2838		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LOLA MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeld, Lectures of	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
2839		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--LODGE'S Portraits of illustrious personages, vide Portraits under "Fine arts"			USD -	Unknown
2841		LONDON:--Cruchley's Map of London			USD -	Unknown
2842		LONDON:--Cromwell's Walks in Islington, Highbury, Ball's Pond, New River, Halloway, Battle Bridge, &c.	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2843		LONDON:--Grant's Great metropolis	Philad.	1838	USD -	Unknown
2844	Knight's (C.)	LONDON:--Pictorial history of London and its environs, ancient and modern		1844	USD -	Unknown
2845	Maitland's (W.)	LONDON:--History and survey of London, from its foundation		1772	USD -	Unknown
2846		LONDON:--Malcolm's Anecdotes of the manners and customs of London from the Roman invasion		1811	USD -	Unknown
2847		LONDON:--Million-peopled city		1850	USD -	Unknown
2848	Miller (J.)	LONDON:--Picturesque sketches of London	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2849	Nightingale (Rev. J.)	LONDON:--History and antiquities of St. Saviour's, Southwark	Lond.	1818	USD -	Unknown
2850		LONDON:--Partington's National history and views of London and its environs		1832	USD -	Unknown
2851		LONDON:--Reynold's Map of London, with 1000 references			USD -	Unknown
2852		LONDON:--Report relating to the entertainment of her majesty the queen in Guildhall	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
2853		LONDON:--Schleisinger's Saunterings in and about London	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2854		LONDON:--Stow's Survey of London		1842	USD -	Unknown
2855		LONDON:--London Magazine	Lond.	1820	USD -	Unknown
2856		LONG ISLAND:--Onderdonk's Revolutionary incidents of Queen's County, L. I.	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2857	Thompson (B. F.)	LONG ISLAND:--History of Long Island, its discovery and settlement, &c.	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2858	Thompson (B. F.)	LONG ISLAND:--Idem	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2859	Bailey (Thomas)	LONGEVITY:--Records of longevity, with a discourse on vital statistics	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2860	Hufeland (C. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Art of prolonging human life	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2861	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Coplas de Don Jeorge Marcrique	Bost.	1833	USD -	Unknown
2862	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Evangeline, a tale of Acadie	Bost.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2863	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Golden legend	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2864	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Hyperion	Bost.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2865	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Hiawatha	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2866	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Kavanagh, a tale	Bost.	1849	USD -	Unknown
2867	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Outre mer		1835	USD -	Unknown
2868	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Seaside and fireside		1850	USD -	Unknown
2869	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Spanish student	Cambridge	1844	USD -	Unknown
2870	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Voices of the night, and other poems	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2871	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Voices of the night	Camb.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2872	LONGFELLOW (H. W.)	LONGEVITY:--Ballads, &c.			USD -	Unknown
2873	Bossu (M.)	LOUISIANA:--Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana	Lond.	1771	USD -	Unknown
2874		LOUISIANA:--Davis's Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas	N. Y.	1806	USD -	Unknown
2875		LOUISIANA:--Du Pratz, History of Louisiana, Virginia, and Carolina	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
2876		LOUISIANA:--French's Historical collections of Louisiana. Part II	Philad.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2877	French (B. F.)	LOUISIANA:--Historical collections of Louisiana. Part III	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2878	Gayerre (C.)	LOUISIANA:--Romance of the history of Louisiana			USD -	Unknown
2879	Gayerre (C.)	LOUISIANA:--History of Louisiana: The Spanish domination	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2880		LOUISIANA:--History of Louisiana: French domination	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2881		LOUISIANA:--Louisiana, its colonial history and romance	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2882		LOUISIANA:--Livingston's Penal law for the State of Louisiana	Philad.	1833	USD -	Unknown
2883	Marbois (B.)	LOUISIANA:--History of Louisiana	Philad.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2884		LOUISIANA:--Marcy and Mcclellan's Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the year 1852	Wash.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2885		LOUISIANA:--LOVE'S Progress, and The Southern matron	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2886	LUCRETIUS.	LOUISIANA:--Of the nature of things, in six books	Lond.	1715	USD -	Unknown
2887		LOUISIANA:--LUXBOROUGH (Lady), Letters to William Shenstone	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
2888	LYELL'S (C.)	LOUISIANA:--Lyrical poems of Dante	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2889	LYNCH'S (A. C.)	LOUISIANA:--LYNCH'S (A. C.) Poems	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2890	MACAULAY (T. B.)	LOUISIANA:--Critical and miscellaneous essays	Philad.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2891		LOUISIANA:--MACKAY'S Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions	Philad.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2892	MACGREGOR'S (J.)	LOUISIANA:--Commercial statistics of all nations		1847	USD -	Unknown
2892a	MACGREGOR'S (J.)	LOUISIANA:--Progress of America from the discovery by Columbus to the year 18-16, comprising its history and statistics		1847	USD -	Unknown
2893	MACKINTOSH (Sir J.)	LOUISIANA:--MACKINTOSH (Sir J.), Miscellaneous works of	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2894		LOUISIANA:--MACKAY'S Home affections portrayed by the poets			USD -	Unknown
2895	MACKLIN	LOUISIANA:--MACKLIN, Kirkman's memoirs of	Lond.	1799	USD -	Unknown
2896	MACNISH (R.)	LOUISIANA:--Tales, essays, and sketches, with life	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2897	MACNFILL (Hector)	LOUISIANA:--MACNFILL (Hector), Poetical works	Phila.	1815	USD -	Unknown
2898		LOUISIANA:--MACPHERSON'S Melodies	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
2898a		MAGAZINES:--Gentleman's Magazine, from the commencement, 1731, to 1856	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2898b	Walker	MAGAZINES:--Gentleman's Selections from 4 vols.		1811	USD -	Unknown
2898c		MAGAZINES:--MAGAZINES, Various			USD -	Unknown
2899		MAGAZINES:--Magazine of popular science and journal of the useful arts	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
2900		MAGAZINES:--MAGNETISM, Davis's manual of	Bost.	1842	USD -	Unknown
2901	MALIBRAN'S (Madame)	MAGAZINES:--MALIBRAN'S (Madame) Memoirs	Phila.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2902		MAGAZINES:--MALKIN'S Historical parallels	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2903	MALTE-BRUN (M.)	MAGAZINES:--System of universal geography, or description of all parts of the world		1836	USD -	Unknown
2904	Combe (G.)	MAN:--The constitution Of man	Bost.		USD -	Unknown
2905		MAN:--Man of education	Bost.	1801	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.