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
3791 Addington's (J. F.) QUOTATIONS:--Poetical quotations Philad.

1829

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3792 QUOTATIONS:--Dictionary of select and popular quotations Philad.

1854

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3793 QUOTATIONS:--Collection of familiar quotations Camb.

1856

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3794 QUOTATIONS:--RABY Rattler and his man Floss, fortunes and adventures of Lond.

1846

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3795 RADCLIFFE (Mrs.) QUOTATIONS:--Mysteries of Udolpho Lond.

1844

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3796 QUOTATIONS:--RADCLIFFES Italian, or the confessional of the black penitents Lond.

1797

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3797 RAFFLES (Thos.) QUOTATIONS:--Life of Spencer, Sturm, &c.

1832

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3798 RAILROADS:--Becker. Der Straszen-und Eisenbahnbau in seinem ganzen Umfange Stuttgart

1855

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3799 Borden (S.) RAILROADS:--System of useful formulae adapted to the practical operations of locating and constructing railroads Bost.

1850

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3800 Lardner's (Dr.) RAILROADS:--Railway economy: a treatise on the new art of transport, its management, prospects, and relations, commercial, &c. N. Y.

1850

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3801 Mifflin (S.) RAILROADS:--Method of locating, describing, and adjusting railway curves and tangents Philad.

1854

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3802 RAILROADS:--Railway library Lond.

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3803 RAILROADS:--Railways, Parliamentary report on Lond.

1849

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3804 RAILROADS:--Railroad and sewerage accidents, Parliamentary report on Lond.

1846

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3805 RAILROADS:--Scrivener's Railways of the united kingdom, statistically considered, in relation to their extent, capital, amalgamations, debentures, &c. Lond.

1749

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3806 Wood (N.) RAILROADS:--Practical treatise on railroads Lond.

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3807 Raleigh (Sir Walter) RALEIGH:--The history of the world Lond.

1618

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3808 RALEIGH:--Oldys, Life of Sir Walter Raleigh

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3809 Cayley (A.) RALEIGH:--Life of Sir Walter Raleigh Lond.

1806

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3810 RALEIGH:--Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh Philad.

1846

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3811 RALEIGH:--Van Henvel's El Dorado in South America, and defence of Sir Walter Raleigh N. Y.

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3812 RALEIGH:--Extract of a memorial presented to Queen Elizabeth by Sir Walter Raleigh

1752

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3813 Lelandi (Joan) RARE TRACTS:--Cygnea Cantio Par.

1621

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3814 RARE TRACTS:--RECOLLECTIONS of a Chaperon N. Y.

1833

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3815 RARE TRACTS:--RECOLLECTIONS of a French marchioness Lond.

1846

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3816 RARE TRACTS:--RED RIVER. Selkirk's (Earl) Settlement on the, North America, its destruction, and the massacre of Gov. Simple and his party Lond.

1817

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3817 REED (W. B.) RARE TRACTS:--Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed Phila.

1847

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3818 REED (H.) RARE TRACTS:--Lectures on the British poets Phila.

1857

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3819 REESE (D. M.) RARE TRACTS:--Humbugs of New York

1838

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3820 REID (Capt. Mayne) RARE TRACTS:--Young voyageurs Lond.

1854

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3821 RARE TRACTS:--REPORTS and realities

1855

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3822 RARE TRACTS:--REPROOF of Brutus Lond.

1830

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3823 Montagu's (E. W.) RARE TRACTS:--REPUBLICS. Reflections on the rise and fall of the ancient republics Lond.

1769

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3824 RARE TRACTS:--REVIEWS, Various

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3825 REVOLUTION:--Impartial history of the war in America between Great Britain and her colonies Lond.

1780

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3826 REVOLUTION:--Revolutionary Plutarch Lond.

1804

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3827 REVOLUTION:--History of the America Revolution Lond.

1830

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3828 Lossing (B. J.) REVOLUTION:--Pictorial field-book of the Revolution N. Y.

1851

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3829 Thacher (Dr. J.) REVOLUTION:--Military journal during the American revolutionary war, from 1775 to 1783 Hart.

1854

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3830 REVOLUTION:--REYNARD, the fox, rafter the German version of David Vedder Lond.

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3831 REYNOLDS (G. W. M.) REVOLUTION:--REYNOLDS (G. W. M.), Novels N. Y.

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3832 REYNOLDS (G. W. M.) REVOLUTION:--Robert Macaire in England Lond.

1845

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3833 REYNOLDS (J. N.) REVOLUTION:--South Sea exploring expedition N. Y.

1841

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3834 RHIND (W. G.) REVOLUTION:--The Creation illustrated Lond.

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3835 Gernung (Baron J. J. Van) RHINE:--Picturesque tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne Lond.

1824

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3836 RHINE:--Rhine, The. Its picturesque scenery and historical associations Lond.

1855

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3836a RHINE:--Rhine, Lower Lond.

1855

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3837 Holland (Lord) RHINE:--Rhine, Autumn near the, or, sketches of court society, scenery, &c. Lond.

1818

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3838 RHINE:--Victor Hugo, The Rhine N. Y.

1845

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3839 RHINE:--Prout's Illustrations of the Rhine Lond.

1855

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3840 RHINE:--RHYMES and Roundelays in praise of a country life Lond.

1855

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3841 Johnson (Capt. C.) RHODE ISLAND:--History of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in Providence to the present time Lond.

1724

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3842 RHODE ISLAND:--Rhode Island historical society collections Prov.

1838

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3843 RHODE ISLAND:--Rhode Island newspapers

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3844 RICHARD (G.) RHODE ISLAND:--RICHARD (G.), Poems Oxford

1804

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3845 RICHARDSON'S (Samuel) RHODE ISLAND:--RICHARDSON'S (Samuel) Works Lond.

1811

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3846 RHODE ISLAND:--Pamela, or, virtue rewarded Berwick

1810

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3847 RTCHARSON (Wm. C.) RHODE ISLAND:--Memoirs of Louisa, Queen of Prussia Lond.

1848

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3848 RICHWOULD (Mrs.) RHODE ISLAND:--South Sea fortune, or, memoirs of a Gloucestershire family Lond.

1758

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3849 De Cerceau RHODE ISLAND:--RIENZI, Life and times of Phila.

1836

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3850 RILEY (J.) RHODE ISLAND:--Authentic narrative of the loss of the brig Commerce on the coast of Africa Hart.

1833

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3851 RILEY (James) RHODE ISLAND:--A narrative of his travels, adventures, &c. N. Y.

1818

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3852 RITCHIE (Leitch) RHODE ISLAND:--The magician

1836

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3853 ROADS:--Roads and railroads, vehicles and modes of travelling Lond.

1839

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3854 Gillespie (W. M.) ROADS:--Manual of the principles and practice of road making N. Y.

1853

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3855 Hughes (Th.) ROADS:--On the making and preparing of roads Lond.

1838

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3855a ROADS:--Idem Lond.

1838

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3856 McAdam (J. L.) ROADS:--Remarks on road making Lond.

1820

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3857 ROBERTS'S (David) ROADS:--Views in the Holy Land, Syria, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, &c.

1847

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3858 ROBERTSON (W.) ROADS:--ROBERTSON (W.), Complete works of Lond.

1851

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3859 ROADS:--ROBERTSON'S America

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3860 ROADS:--ROBERTSON'S Historical works

1787

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3861 ROBIN HOOD ROADS:--A collection of all the poems, songs, and ballads relating to this celebrated yeoman Lond.

1850

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3862 ROBINSON (Solon) ROADS:--Hot corn N. Y.

1851

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3863 ROADS:--ROCHESTER, Otway, Phillips, Cheek, Dennis, and Brown, Letters of Lond.

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3864 ROCKWELL (C.) ROADS:--Sketches of foreign travel and life at sea Bost.

1842

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3865 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Altowan; or Incidents of life and adventures in the Rocky Mountains N. Y.

1846

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3866 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Dragoon campaigns to the Rocky Mountains N. Y.

1856

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3867 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Far West; or a Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains N. Y.

1838

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3868 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Long's Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains Phila.

1823

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3868a ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Lewis and Clarke's Expedition to the sources of the Missouri, across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Dub.

1817

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3869 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--RODWELL'S Old London bridge Lond.

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3870 ROE (A. S.) ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--James Montjoy; or, l've been thinking N. Y.

1850

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3871 ROGERS (Major Robert) ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Journals containing an account of his excursions in North America during the French war Lond.

1765

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3872 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Concise account of North America Lond.

1765

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3873 ROGERS (S.) ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Pleasures of memory N. Y.

1824

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3874 ROGERS (S.) ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--ROGERS (S.) Poems Lond.

1827

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3875 ROGERS (S.) ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--ROGERS (S.) Poems Phila.

1843

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3876 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--ROLLIN'S Ancient history of the Egyptians, Medes, Persians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Grecians, &c. &c.

1808

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3877 ROCKY MOUNTAINS:--Ancient history, Atlas of maps to

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3878 ROME:--Caesar's Commentaries Lond.

1753

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3879 ROME:--Catrou & Rouille's Roman history Lond.

1707

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3880 Chapman (Dr.) ROME:--Essay on the Roman senate Camb.

1750

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3881 ROME:--Compendio de Roma antica

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3882 Eatons (Charlotte A.) ROME:--Rome in the 19th century Lond.

1852

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3883 ROME:--Flori, Epitome rerum Romanorum. Cura Clarke. Latin and English Lond.

1763

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3884 Gell (Sir Wm.) ROME:--Topography of Rome and its vicinity Lond.

1834

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3884a Gibbon (E.) ROME:--History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire

1777

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3885 Gibbon (E.) ROME:--History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire Bost.

1854

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3886 Gibbon (E.) ROME:--Decline and fall of the Roman empire Lond.

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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
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