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
196	Halliwell (J. O.)	ARCHAEOLOGY:--Dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the 14th century	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
197	Ker (J. B.)	ARCHAEOLOGY:--Essay on archaeology of our popular phrases, terms, and nursery rhymes	Andover	1840	USD -	Unknown
198		ARCHAEOLOGY:--Toone's glossary and etymological dictionary	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
199		ARCHAEOLOGY:--ARCHBISHOP, or Romanism in the United States			USD -	Unknown
200	Hansard (G. Agar)	ARCHERY:--Book of Archery	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
201		ARCHERY:--Hasting's British archer	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
202	Allen (L. F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Rural architecture	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
203		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Bowman and Crowther's specimens of early and middle pointed ecclesiastical buildings in great Britain	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
204	Brooks (S. H.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Select designs for public buildings	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
205		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Buckler's history and architecture of the abbey church of St. Alban, Herts			USD -	Unknown
206	Downing (A. J.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Cottage residences	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
207	Downing (A. J.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--The architecture of country houses, including designs for cottages, farm houses and villas, &c.	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
208	Downing (A. J.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--A treatise on landscape gardening, adapted to North America	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
209	Duggan (G.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Specimens of stone, iron, and wood bridges	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
210	Elmes (Jas.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Metropolitan improvements, or London in the 19th century	London		USD -	Unknown
211	Goodwin (F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Domestic architecture: being a series of designs for mansions, villas, &c. &c., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English styles of architecture, with accurate estimates appen	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
212	Hammond (J. H.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Farmer's and mechanic's practical architect	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
213	Heidemann (Ch.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Architectura militaris		1664	USD -	Unknown
214		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Hunt's examples of Tudor architecture, adapted to modern habitations			USD -	Unknown
215	Hunt (T. F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Half a dozen hints on picturesque domestic architecture, in a series of designs for gate lodges, gamekeepers' cottages, &c.	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
216	Lafever (M.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Beauties of modern architecture	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
217		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Loudon's encyclopedia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
218		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Modern stair-builder's guide, and practical system of hand railing	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
219	Morrison (Douglas)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Views of the ducal palaces and hunting seats of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
220	Papworth (J. B.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Rural residences: a series of designs for colleges, villas, &c.	Lond.	1818	USD -	Unknown
221	Papworth (J. B.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Hints on ornamental gardening, and designs for garden buildings, &c.	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
222		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Pugin's examples of Gothic architecture			USD -	Unknown
223		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Pugin's public buildings of London	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
224	Pugin (A.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Gothic ornaments, selected from various ancient buildings in England and France	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
225		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Parliamentary reports of building regulation and improvement of boroughs	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
226	Repton (H.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Landscape gardening and landscape architecture	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
227	Rosengarten (A.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Die architektonischen Stylarten	Brunswick	1857	USD -	Unknown
228	Robinson (F.F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Designs for ornamental villas		1853	USD -	Unknown
229	Robinson (F.F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--New series of designs for ornamental cottages and villas	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
230	Robinson (F.F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Village architecture	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
231	Robinson (F.F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Designs for gate cottages, lodges, and park entrances, from the humblest to the castellated	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
232	Robinson (F.F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Designs for farm buildings	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
233	Robinson and Britton	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Vitruvius Britannicus: history of Woburn Abbey, Hatfield House, Hardwicke Hall, and Cassiobury House	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
234	Semple (Geo.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Treatise on building in water	Dublin	1776	USD -	Unknown
235		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Designs for shop fronts, door cases, &c. &c.	London		USD -	Unknown
236		ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Steiglitz architecture	Leipzig	1805	USD -	Unknown
237	Stevens (F.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Views of cottages and farm-houses in England and Wales	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
238	Wheeler (G.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Rural homes	N. York	1852	USD -	Unknown
239	Wightwick (G.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Palace of architecture, a romance of art and history	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
240	Wood (J.)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Origin of building, or the plagiarism of the heathens detected	Bath	1741	USD -	Unknown
241	Wills (Frank)	ARCHITECTURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, GOTHIC, DOMESTIC, LANDSCAPE, &C.:--Ancient ecclesiastical architecture	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
242	Barrow (Sir J.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyages of discovery and research in the Arctic regions	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
243	Beechy's (Capt. F. W.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyage of discovery towards the North Pole, performed in his majesty's ships Dorothea and Trent, in 1818	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
244	Beechy's (Capt. F. W.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar expeditions, in the years 1825-'26-'27-'28		1831	USD -	Unknown
245	Buchan (Capt. D.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyage of discovery towards the North Pole	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
246	Coxe (W.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
247	Crantz (David)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--History of Greenland, including an account of the mission carried on by the United Brethren in that country, and a sketch of the mission in Labrador, continuation, &c.	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
248	Crantz (David)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Ancient and modern history of the United Brethren	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
249	Dewhurst (Prof.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--The natural history of Arctic Cetacea, and the Oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
250	Ellis (Henry)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyage to Hudson's Bay	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
251	Forster (J. R.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--History of the Arctic voyages and discoveries, from the earliest period	London	1786	USD -	Unknown
252	Franchere (G.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
253	Franklin (John)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Seas in 1819--'22	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
253a	Franklin (Capt.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Narrative of a journey to the Polar Seas in 1819-22	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
254	Hamel (Dr.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Early English voyages to Northern Russia	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
255	Kane (E. K.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--United States Government expedition in search of Sir John Franklin	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
256	Kane (Dr.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Arctic explorations in 1853	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
257	Shields (C. W.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Address at the funeral of the Hon. J. K. Kane			USD -	Unknown
258		ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Leslie's discovery and adventures in the Polar Seas and regions	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
259	Lyon's (Capt. G. F.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--journal during a voyage to the North Pole	Boston	1824	USD -	Unknown
260	Lyon's (Capt. G. F.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--journal of a residence and tour in the republic of Mexico in the year 1826	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
260a	Marten (F.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Spitzbergische oder Groendlandische Reisebeschreibung, gethan im Jahr 1671	Hamb.	1675	USD -	Unknown
261	McDougall (Geo. F.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Eventful voyage of H. M. discovery ship "Resolute" to the Arctic regions	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
262	Parry (Capt. W. E.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage, 1819--'20	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
263	Parry (Capt. W. E.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Second voyage, 1821-23	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
264	Parry (Capt. W. E.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyages for the discovery of a northwest passage	New York	1840	USD -	Unknown
265		ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Polar Seas and regions	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
266	Portlock (Capt. Nath.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Voyages round the world, but more particularly on the northwest coast of America, in 1785-88	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
267		ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Reilly's Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
268	Scoresby (W.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--An account of the Arctic regions	Edinb.	1820	USD -	Unknown
269		ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery, and researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland	Edinburgh	1823	USD -	Unknown
270	Sutherland (Peter C.)	ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the year 1850-51	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
271		ARCTIC VOYAGES:--Tales of a voyager to the Arctic Ocean	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
272	Nuttall (Thomas)	ARKANSAS:--A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819	Philadelphia	1821	USD -	Unknown
273		ARKANSAS:--ARISTOTLE'S politiques, or discourses on government	London	1598	USD -	Unknown
274	Versoris (J.)	ARKANSAS:--ARISTOTLE.--Glosulae super Aristotelis libros philosophiae	Impressum Tholosae		USD -	Unknown
275		ARKANSAS:--ARMATA, a fragment	New York	1817	USD -	Unknown
276		ARMENIA:--Curzon's Armenia, &c.	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
277		ARMENIA:--Armenian popular songs	Venice	1852	USD -	Unknown
278	ARNOLD (Dr.)	ARMENIA:--Modern history	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
279		ARMENIA:--ARRIAN'S voyage round the Euxine Sea	Oxford	1805	USD -	Unknown
280		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Arcana of science and art for 1830	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
281		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Arcana of science and art for 1830	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
282		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Arts and manufactures, Patent Office report on	Washington	1850	USD -	Unknown
283		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Arts and manufactures, Patent Office report on	Washington	1853	USD -	Unknown
284		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Blagdon's modern discoveries	Lond.	1802	USD -	Unknown
285	Crabbe (Geo.)	ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Universal technological dictionary, or familiar explanation of the terms used in all arts and sciences	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
286		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Knight's pictorial gallery of useful and fine arts			USD -	Unknown
287		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Joyce's familiar introduction to the arts and sciences	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
288	Nicholson's (W.)	ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--British encyclopedia, or dictionary of arts and sciences	Philadelphia	1818	USD -	Unknown
289		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Patent Office reports--arts and manufactures	Washington	1851	USD -	Unknown
290		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, second meeting	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
291		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Repertory of patent inventions, discoveries in arts, manufactures, and agriculture	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
292		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Tomlinson's cyclopedia of arts and sciences	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
293		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Ure's dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines	New York	1850	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.