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
3594	Day's (S.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Historical collections of the State of Pennsylvania	Phila.		USD -	Unknown
3595		PENNSYLVANIA:--Gazetteer of the State of Pennsylvania	Phila.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3596	Franklin (B.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Historical review of the constitution and government of Pennsylvania from its origin, &c.	Lond.	1759	USD -	Unknown
3598	Hazard (S. C.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Annals of Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware	Phila.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3599	Miner (J. A.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Aristocracy in Philadelphia			USD -	Unknown
3600	Miner (Charles)	PENNSYLVANIA:--History of Wyoming. In a series of letters to his son, William Penn Miner, Esq.	Phila.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3601		PENNSYLVANIA:--Minutes of the provincial council of Pennsylvania from the organization to the termination of the proprietary government	Phila.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3602		PENNSYLVANIA:--Pennsylvania conventions of 1776 and 1790	Harrisburg	1825	USD -	Unknown
3603		PENNSYLVANIA:--Register of Pennsylvania, devoted to the preservation of facts and documents respecting the State of Pennsylvania	Phila.		USD -	Unknown
3603	Sargents' (Winthrop)	PENNSYLVANIA:--History of an expedition against Fort du Quesne, in 1755	Phila.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3604		PENNSYLVANIA:--Shaler's Report of the trial of the journeymen cord wainers at Pittsburgh		1816	USD -	Unknown
3605	Stone (L.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Poetry and history of Wyoming, and Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
3606	Thomas (G.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--History of Pennsylvania and of West New Jersey	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3607		PENNSYLVANIA:--Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, from the earliest settlement down to the year 1857	Phila.	1858	USD -	Unknown
3608		PENNY MAGAZINE:--Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful knowledge		1837	USD -	Unknown
3609		PENNY MAGAZINE:--Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful knowledge	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3610		PENNY MAGAZINE:--Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful knowledge For 1845	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3611	PERCEVAL (J. G.)	PENNY MAGAZINE:--PERCEVAL (J. G.), Poems		1843	USD -	Unknown
3612		PENNY MAGAZINE:--PERCY ANECDOTES, to which are added a valuable collection of American anecdotes	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3613	PERCY'S (Thomas, Bp. of Dromore)	PENNY MAGAZINE:--Reliques of ancient English poetry	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3614	PERCY'S (Thomas, Bp. of Dromore)	PENNY MAGAZINE:--Idem	Philad.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3614a	PERRY (Oliver Hazard)	PENNY MAGAZINE:--Life of Commodore	N. Y.	1841	USD -	Unknown
3615	Brand (Lieut. C.)	PERU:--Journal of a voyage to Peru, a passage across the Corderilla of the Andes, in the winter of 1827	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
3616		PERU:--Marmontel--The Incas, or the destruction of Peru	Lond.	1806	USD -	Unknown
3617	Miller (J.)	PERU:--Memoirs of General Miller, in the service of the Republic of Peru	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
3618		PERU:--Peruvian Tales	Lond.	1749	USD -	Unknown
3619	Rico (Padre Don Juan)	PERU:--Reales exequias, que por el fallecimiento del Senor Don Carlos III., Rey de Espanya y de las Indias, mando celebrar en la Ciudad de Lima, capital del Peru, &c.	Lima	1789	USD -	Unknown
3620		PERU:--Savage, The Amazonian Republic recently discovered in Peru	N. Y.	1842	USD -	Unknown
3621	Smith (A.)	PERU:--Peru as it is, a residence in Lima, &c.	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
3622	Temple (Ed.)	PERU:--Travels in various parts of Peru	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
3623		PERU:--Trueba y Cosio, History of the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards	Edinb.	1830	USD -	Unknown
3624	Tschudi (J. J. Von)	PERU:--Travels in Peru, 1838-42	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3625		PERU:--Peruvian antiquities	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3626	Vega (Garcillasso de la)	PERU:--Royal commentaries of Peru	Lond.	1688	USD -	Unknown
3626a	Vega (Garcillasso de la)	PERU:--Idem		1688	USD -	Unknown
3627	Herbert (Sir Thomas)	PERSIA:--Description of the Persian monarchy, now being the Orientale Indies, &c.	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
3628	Morier (James)	PERSIA:--Journey into Persia, &c.	Lond.	1812	USD -	Unknown
3629	Olearius (A.)	PERSIA:--Voyages and travels of the ambassadors in Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, &c.	Lond.	1669	USD -	Unknown
3630		PERSIA:--Persian language, vocabulary of the, in two parts	Lond.	1805	USD -	Unknown
3631		PERSIA:--PETER Schlemil in America	Phila.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3632		PERSIA:--PETER Pilgrim	Phila.	1838	USD -	Unknown
3633	PETER Wilkins	PERSIA:--PETER Wilkins, life and adventures of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3634		PERSIA:--PETER'S Letters to his kinsfolk	N. Y.	1820	USD -	Unknown
3636	PETRARCH (see Italian classics)	PERSIA:--PETRARCH (see Italian classics), Dobson's Life of	Lond.	1797	USD -	Unknown
3637		PERSIA:--PHILIP Quarl, the English hermit, or, unparalleled sufferings and surprising adventures of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3638	PHILIPS (Sir R.)	PERSIA:--Million of facts	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3639		PERSIA:--PHILOSOPHY in sport made science in earnest	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3640	Fowler (O. S.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Phrenology applied to matrimony	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
3641		PHRENOLOGY:--Phrenological journal	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
3642	Roget's (Dr.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Outlines of physiology	Phila.	1839	USD -	Unknown
3643	Slades (J.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Conversations on phrenology with Dugald Stewart	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
3644	Spurzheim (J. G.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Lectures on phrenology	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
3645	Spurzheim (J. G.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Outlines of phrenology		1833	USD -	Unknown
3646	Spurzheim (J. G.)	PHRENOLOGY:--Outlines of the physiognomical system	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
3647	Buff (H.)	PHYSICS:--Physics of the earth, treating of the chief movements of the land, the water, and the air	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3648		PHYSICS:--Hunt's Elementary physics	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3649	Webster (Tho.)	PHYSICS:--Elements of physics	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
3650		PHYSIOGNOMY:--Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and love of mankind	Lond.	1789	USD -	Unknown
3651		PHYSIOGNOMY:--Idem	Lond.	1804	USD -	Unknown
3652	Dunglison (Robley)	PHYSIOLOGY:--Human physiology	Phila.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3652		PHYSIOLOGY:--PICKERING'S ALDINE EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3653		PICKERING PHYSIOLOGY:--PICKERING'S Novels			USD -	Unknown
3654		PHYSIOLOGY:--PICKWICK Jest-book			USD -	Unknown
3655		PHYSIOLOGY:--PICTORIAL Cyclopaedia of biography	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3656		PHYSIOLOGY:--PICTORIAL history of the American Revolution	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3657	PILKINGTON (Mrs.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--Celebrity, or the unfortunate choice	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
3658	PINDAR	PHYSIOLOGY:--Literally translated into English prose	Oxf.	1846	USD -	Unknown
3659	PINDAR	PHYSIOLOGY:--Translated by Bannister		1791	USD -	Unknown
3660	PINDAR (Peter)	PHYSIOLOGY:--PINDAR (Peter), The works of	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
3661		PHYSIOLOGY:--PINKERTON'S Travels	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
3662	PINKNEY (Wm.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--Some account of the life	N. Y.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3663		PHYSIOLOGY:--Pious Minstrel	Bost.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3664		PHYSIOLOGY:--PITCAIRN'S Island described	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3665	PLATON	PHYSIOLOGY:--OEuvres, traduites par Victor Cousin			USD -	Unknown
3666	PLINY	PHYSIOLOGY:--PLINY, Letters of	Lond.	1752	USD -	Unknown
3667	PLUMER (W. S.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--Argument for the indiscriminate incorporation of churches	Balt.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3668		PHYSIOLOGY:--PLUTARQUE, traduites du Grec et accompagnees de notes		1827	USD -	Unknown
3669		PHYSIOLOGY:--PLURALITY of worlds, Fontanelle on the		1767	USD -	Unknown
3670		PHYSIOLOGY:--PLOUGH, loom, and anvil	N.Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3671		PHYSIOLOGY:--PNEUMATICS of Hero of Alexandria			USD -	Unknown
3672	POES (E. A.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--POES (E. A.), Works			USD -	Unknown
3673	POE'S (E. A.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--POE'S (E. A.) Works	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
3674	POE'S (E. A.)	PHYSIOLOGY:--Tales, &c.	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3675		PHYSIOLOGY:--POEMS on several occasions	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
3676		PHYSIOLOGY:--POEMS selected from the United States Literary Gazette	Bost.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3677		PHYSIOLOGY:--POETS-LAUREATE, Lives of the English	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3678		PHYSIOLOGY:--POETRY of the fields	Phila.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3679		PHYSIOLOGY:--POETRY of the woods, elegantly illustrated with line engravings	Phila.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3680		PHYSIOLOGY:--Book of English	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3681		PHYSIOLOGY:--POETS (BRITISH); a complete edition from Chaucer to Blacklock	Lond. and Edinb.	1794	USD -	Unknown
3682	Fletcher (Jas.)	POLAND:--History of Poland	Lond.	1831	USD -	Unknown
3683	Saxton (L. C.)	POLAND:--Fall of Poland	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3684	Atkinson (W.)	POLAND:--Political economy	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3685		POLAND:--American laborer (The), devoted to protection, &c.	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3686	Brougham's (Lord)	POLAND:--Political philosophy	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
3687	Bielfield (Baron)	POLAND:--Institutiones politiques	A. La Haye	1740	USD -	Unknown
3688	Carey (H. C.)	POLAND:--Principles of social science	Phila.	1858	USD -	Unknown
3689	Carey (H. C.)	POLAND:--Past, the present, and the future	Phila.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3690	Chalmers (Dr.)	POLAND:--On political economy, &c.	Columbus	1842	USD -	Unknown
3691		POLAND:--Cobbett's Paper against gold	N. Y.	1846	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.