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
294	Ure (Dr.)	ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Dictionary of the arts, manufactures, and mines, &c.		1854	USD -	Unknown
295		ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PATENTS, &C.:--Wells and Bliss's annual of scientific discovery, or year book of facts in science and art	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
296	Von Hammer (J.)	ASSASSINS:--History of the assassins	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
297		ASSASSINS:--ASMODEUS and other works			USD -	Unknown
298		ASSASSINS:--Ashmole and Lilly, lives of	London	1717	USD -	Unknown
299	Zadkiel	ASSASSINS:--Lilly's introduction to astrology	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
300	Lilly (Mrs.)	ASSASSINS:--Merlin revived: hieroglyphics, prophecies, &c.	London	1683	USD -	Unknown
301	Ashmole (J. M.)	ASSASSINS:--Occult science.--Ptolemy's tetrabiblos, or quadripartite, on the influence of the stars, with appendix, almagest, and centiloquy of Ptolemy, &c.		1822	USD -	Unknown
302		ASSASSINS:--Cabala speculum Artis et naturas in Alchymia a Stephan Michelspacher		1654	USD -	Unknown
303		ASSASSINS:--Raphael's prophetic messengers, from 1834 to 1848			USD -	Unknown
304		ASSASSINS:--Raphael's familiar astrologer: an easy guide to fate, destiny, and foreknowledge	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
305		ASSASSINS:--Roback's mysteries of astrology	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
305a	Shemaya (Ebn.)	ASSASSINS:--The star: a complete system of astrology	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
306	Vanni (Ebn.)	ASSASSINS:--Chorus philosophorum, with singular plates of magic circles, the sybils, &c.		1665	USD -	Unknown
307		ASSASSINS:--Wilson's dictionary of astrology	London		USD -	Unknown
308		ASSASSINS:--Zadiel's horoscope: a miscellany of the celestial science of astrology	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
309		ASTRONOMY:--Arago on comets	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
310		ASTRONOMY:--Astronomical diagrams, a collection of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
311	Blake (Dr.)	ASTRONOMY:--First book of astronomy	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
312		ASTRONOMY:--Blunt's beauties of the heavens: a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
313	Bouvier (H. M.)	ASTRONOMY:--Familiar astronomy, or an introduction to the study of the heavens	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
314		ASTRONOMY:--Burritt's (E. H.), celestial atlas		1836	USD -	Unknown
315		ASTRONOMY:--Dick's practical astronomer	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
316		ASTRONOMY:--Dick's siderial heavens, &c.	N. Y.	1840	USD -	Unknown
317		ASTRONOMY:--Fontenelle's plurality of worlds	Glasgow	1749	USD -	Unknown
318		ASTRONOMY:--Guy and Keith's astronomy	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	Unknown
319	Herschell (Sir John)	ASTRONOMY:--Treatise on astronomy	Philadelphia	1834	USD -	Unknown
320	Herschell (Sir John)	ASTRONOMY:--Outlines of astronomy	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	Unknown
321	Hills (John, M. D.)	ASTRONOMY:--Urania, or a complete view of the heavens	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
322	Jeans (G.)	ASTRONOMY:--Practical astronomy for the unlearned	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
323	Loomis (E.)	ASTRONOMY:--Recent progress of astronomy	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
323a	Mason (E. P.)	ASTRONOMY:--Introduction to practical astronomy	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
324		ASTRONOMY:--Mattison's Hasking's astronomy	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
325		ASTRONOMY:--Maury's (Lieut.) astronomical observations at Washington in 1845	Washington	1845	USD -	Unknown
326	Milne (D.)	ASTRONOMY:--Prize essay on comets	Edinburgh	1828	USD -	Unknown
327	Mitchell (O. M.)	ASTRONOMY:--Planetary and stellar worlds	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
328		ASTRONOMY:--Mitchell and Arago's lectures on astronomy		1848	USD -	Unknown
329		ASTRONOMY:--Moon hoax: Herschel's great astronomical discoveries	New York		USD -	Unknown
330	Mosely (Rev. H.)	ASTRONOMY:--Lectures on astronomy	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
331	Nichol (J. P.)	ASTRONOMY:--System of the world	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
332		ASTRONOMY:--Nichol (J. P.), on the solar system	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
333		ASTRONOMY:--Nichol's contemplations of the solar system	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
334		ASTRONOMY:--Nichol's stellar universe	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
335	Nichol (Dr. J. P.)	ASTRONOMY:--Views of the architecture of the heavens, in a series of letters to a lady		1842	USD -	Unknown
336	Nichol (Dr. J. P.)	ASTRONOMY:--Letters on astronomy	Boston	1841	USD -	Unknown
337	Oliver (A.)	ASTRONOMY:--Essay on comets	Boston	1811	USD -	Unknown
338		ASTRONOMY:--Ostrander's planetarium	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
339		ASTRONOMY:--Placidus de Titus, Astronomy and elementary philosophy	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
340		ASTRONOMY:--Prophetic messenger for 1832	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
341	Robinson (H. H.)	ASTRONOMY:--Treatise on astronomy, descriptive, physical, and practical, designed for schools	Albany	1850	USD -	Unknown
342		ASTRONOMY:--Rosse's (Lord) monster telescope described		1844	USD -	Unknown
343	Sauer (M.)	ASTRONOMY:--Account of the geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia, stretching to the American coast	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
344		ASTRONOMY:--Wharton's (George) works on astronomy	London	1683	USD -	Unknown
345	Wilbur (H.)	ASTRONOMY:--Elements of Astronomy		1834	USD -	Unknown
346	Wilkins (Bp.)	ASTRONOMY:--New world in the moon	London	1684	USD -	Unknown
347		ASTRONOMY:--Wilkins's elements of astronomy	Boston	1840	USD -	Unknown
348		ASTRONOMY:--Winthrop and Oliver on comets	Boston	1811	USD -	Unknown
349	Williams (F. S.)	ASTRONOMY:--Wonders of the heavens	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
350	Wilkins (W.)	ATHENS:--Atheniensia, or remarks on the topography and buildings of Athens	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
351	ATWOOD (A.)	ATHENS:--Young man's way to intelligence, respectability, honor, and usefulness		1857	USD -	Unknown
352		ATHENS:--ATLANTIC souvenir	Boston	1833	USD -	Unknown
353		ATHENS:--American atlas according to the plan of Le Sage's atlas, and intended as a companion to Lavoisne, and an improvement of that celebrated work	Philadelphia	1823	USD -	Unknown
354		ATHENS:--Atlas historique, ou nouvelle introduction & l'histoire, a la chronologique, et & la geographie ancienne et moderne; maps and plates, &c.	Amst.	1713	USD -	Unknown
355		ATHENS:--Atlas of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge			USD -	Unknown
356	Phillips	ATHENS:--Atlas, classical, historical, and scriptural			USD -	Unknown
357		ATHENS:--Black's general atlas	Edinburgh	1850	USD -	Unknown
358	Bradford (T. G.)	ATHENS:--Illustrated atlas of the United States and adjacent countries	Philadelphia		USD -	Unknown
359	Butler (Dr.)	ATHENS:--Atlas of ancient geography	Philadelphia	1844	USD -	Unknown
360		ATHENS:--Edinburgh school atlas	Edinburgh		USD -	Unknown
361	Holgate (J. B.)	ATHENS:--Atlas of American history		1842	USD -	Unknown
362	Johnston (A. K.)	ATHENS:--School atlas of general and descriptive geography	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
363		ATHENS:--Physical atlas of natural phenomena	Philadelphia	1850	USD -	Unknown
364		ATHENS:--Macpherson's geographiae contiguiae, ancient atlas	London		USD -	Unknown
365	Delille, D'An ville, and Berache	ATHENS:--Maps.--A collection of 122 fine colored maps			USD -	Unknown
366	Martin (R. M.)	ATHENS:--Illustrated atlas and modern history of the world	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
367		ATHENS:--Petit atlas moderne	Paris		USD -	Unknown
368		ATHENS:--Quin's atlas of universal history	Glasgow	1856	USD -	Unknown
369		ATHENS:--Russell's atlas of ancient geography	London		USD -	Unknown
370		AUSTRALIA:--Account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
371	Browne (W.)	AUSTRALIA:--New Zealand and its aborigines	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
372	Gray (Geo.)	AUSTRALIA:--Journals of two expeditions in northwest and western Australia in 1837-39	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
373	Howitt (Mary)	AUSTRALIA:--Land, labor, and gold	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
374		AUSTRALIA:--Hunter's (J., Esq.) historical journal of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
375		AUSTRALIA:--Land of promise, or my impressions of Australia	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
376	Lang (Dr.)	AUSTRALIA:--New South Wales	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
377	Mudie (Robert)	AUSTRALIA:--Felonry of New South Wales, being a picture of real romance of life in Botany Bay	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
378	Pollok (Robert)	AUSTRALIA:--Manners and customs of the New Zealanders	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
379	Stoney (Capt. H. B.)	AUSTRALIA:--Residence in Tasmania	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
380	Sturt (Capt. Chris.)	AUSTRALIA:--Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia in 1828-31	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
381	Sydney (S.)	AUSTRALIA:--Three colonies of Australia	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
382	Townsend (J. F.)	AUSTRALIA:--rambles in New South Wales	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
383	Styles (W. H.)	AUSTRIA:--Austria in 1848 and 1849	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
384		AUSTRIA:--AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a working man	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
385	Warner (H. W.)	AUSTRIA:--AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Dr. Caldwell	Philadelphia	1858	USD -	Unknown
386		AZORES:--Boid's (Capt.) description of the Azores or Western Islands	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
387		AZORES:--BACHELOR Butterfly's adventures	New York		USD -	Unknown
388	BACON	AZORES:--BACON'S works	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
389		AZORES:--BAKEWELL'S philosophical conversations	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
390	Wise (John)	BALLOONING:--System of AEronautics	Phila.	1850	USD -	Unknown
391		BALLOONING:--BALBOA, adventures of	Baltimore		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.