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
4512 VENEZUELA:--Recollections of a service of three years, during the war of extermination in Venezuela and Colombia Lond.

1828

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4513 Fougasse's (Thos. de) VENICE:--Generall historie of the magnificent State of Venice Lond.

1612

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4514 VENICE:--Roscoe's Legends of Venice

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4515 VENICE:--Sketches from Venetian history N. Y.

1840

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4516 VERMONT:--Vermont State papers, records, and documents, from 1779 to 1786 Middlebury

1823

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4517 Hall (F.) VERMONT:--Statistical account of Middlebury, Vt. Bost.

1821

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4518 Thompson (Zadoch) VERMONT:--History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical

1842

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4519 VERPLANCK (G. C.) VERMONT:--The American scholar N. Y.

1836

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4520 VERPLANCK (G. C.) VERMONT:--Discourses and addresses N. Y.

1853

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4521 VERSAILLES:--Gavard, Galeries historiques de Versailles Par.

1838

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4522 VERSAILLES:--Krauss, Description du labirynte de Versailles

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4523 Palais, Musee, Jardins VERSAILLES:--A series of exquisite line engraving Par.

USD - Unknown
4524 VICTOR'S (Benj.) VERSAILLES:--Original letters, dramatic pieces, and poems Lond.

1776

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4525 VERSAILLES:--VIEWS in America

USD - Unknown
4525a Forrest (Wm. S.) VIRGINIA:--Historical and descriptive sketches of Norfolk and vicinity Phila.

1853

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4526 Arthur (T. S.) VIRGINIA:--History of Virginia Phila.

1852

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4526a Howe (H.) VIRGINIA:--Historical collection of Virginia N.Y.

1850

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4527 VIRGINIA:--Beverley, History of Virginia Lond.

1722

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4528 Foote (Dr.) VIRGINIA:--Sketches of Virginia Phila.

1855

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4528a VIRGINIA:--Sketch of Western Virginia, for the use of British settlers in that country Lond.

1837

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4529 VIRGINIA:--VINCENT LE BLANC, Famous voyages and travels Lond.

1660

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4530 Warton VIRGINIA:--VIRGIL in English verse Lond.

1790

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4531 Rutherford (T.) VIRTUE:--Essay on the nature and obligations of virtue Camb.

1744

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4532 Ordinaire (Abbe) VOLCANOES:--Natural history of volcanoes Lond.

1801

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4533 VOLTAIRE VOLCANOES:--VOLTAIRE'S Works Lond.

1779

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4534 VOLCANOES:--VOLTAIRE'S Treatise upon toleration Glas.

1760

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4535 VOLCANOES:--VOLTAIRE'S OEuvres completes Par.

1829

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4535a VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Astley's Collection of voyages and travels Lond.

1745

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4536 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Collection of modern and contemporary voyages and travels Lond.

1810

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4536a VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Cook's Three voyages round the world Lond.

USD - Unknown
4537 Dampier's (Capt.) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Collection of voyages, embracing his voyages round the world, Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, Captain Wood's voyage through the Straits of Magellan, &c. Lond.

1697

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4537a VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--De la Porte, Le voyageur Francois Par.

1771

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4538 Freziers (M.) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Voyage to the South Sea, and along the coast of Chili Lond.

1735

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4539 Harris (John) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Collection of voyages and travels Lond.

1744

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4539a Olearius (Sieur Adam) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Les voyages

1718

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4540 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Phillips's Collection of modern voyages and travels Lond.

1805

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4540a VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Pinkerton's General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world Lond.

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4541 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages par.

1720

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4542 Shelvocke (Capt. S.) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--Voyage round the world Lond.

1726

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4543 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS:--WACOUSTA, and other novels N. Y.

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4544 WALDENSES:--Windle's Legend of the Waldenses, and other tales Philad.

1852

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4545 Bingley's (Rev. W.) WALES:--North Wales

1804

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4546 Broughton (Rev. B.) WALES:--Picturesque views of North Wales Lond.

1798

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4547 WALES:--Pugh's Cambria Depicta: a tour through North Wales Lond.

1816

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4548 WALKER (W.S.) WALES:--Gustavus Vasa, and other poems, to which is added Hunt's (J.H.L.) Juvenilia, or a collection of poems Lond.

1813

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4549 WALES:--WALL, The orphan's isle Lond.

1838

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4550 WALLACE (H. B.) WALES:--Literary criticisms, and other papers Philad.

1856

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4551 WALLER'S (E.) WALES:--WALLER'S (E.) Works, in prose and verse Lond.

1758

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4552 WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Orford) WALES:--WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Orford), Works of Lond.

1798

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4553 WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Orford) WALES:--WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Orford), Memoir of Lond.

1820

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4554 WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Oxford) WALES:--Letters to Sir Horace Mann

1844

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4554a WALPOLE (Horace, Earl of Oxford) WALES:--Castle of Otranto Lond.

1840

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4555 Coxe's (Archdeacon) WALES:--WALPOLE (Sir Robert), Memoirs of the life and administration of

1800

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4556 WALPOLE (H. F.) WALES:--Four years in the Pacific (Chili, Peru, Mexico, &c.), in H. M. ship Collingwood, from 1844-48 Lond.

1849

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4557 WALTON (W.) WALES:--Alpaca, &c., its naturalization on the British Isles Lond.

1844

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4558 WALTON'S (Isaac) WALES:--Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson Lond.

1840

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4558a WALES:--WALTON and Cotton's Complete angler, or the contemplative man's recreation Lond.

1836

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4558b WALTON'S (Isaac) WALES:--Lives of Donne, Walton, Sanderson, Hooker, and Herbert Lond.

1796

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4559 S. R. Gleig WAR OF 1812:--Campaigns of the British army at Washington and New Orleans Lond.

1836

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4560 WAR OF 1812:--Davis's Authentic history of the late war between the United States and Great Britain N. Y.

1836

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4561 WAR OF 1812:--History of the late war between the United States and Great Britain

1845

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4562 WAR OF 1812:--History of the war between the United States and the British Isles, intended as a faithful history from 1812 to 1815 Rutland

1815

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4563 WAR OF 1812:--History of the late war in the western country, from the battle of Tippecanoe to that of New Orleans Lexington

1816

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4564 WAR OF 1812:--Ingersoll's Historical sketch of the second war between the United States and Great Britain Phil.

1849

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4565 Rensselaer (S. V.) WAR OF 1812:--Affair of Queenstown in the war of 1812 N. Y.

1836

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4566 WARD (C.) WAR OF 1812:--Mysterious marriage, or the will of my father Lond.

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4567 WARD (C. G.) WAR OF 1812:--Cottage on the Cliff, a seaside story Lond.

USD - Unknown
4568 WARD (Plumer) WAR OF 1812:--Pictures of the world Lond.

1843

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4569 WARNER (Miss) WAR OF 1812:--Wide, wide world N. Y.

1851

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4570 WARREN (S.) WAR OF 1812:--Diary of a late physician N. Y.

1845

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4571 WARREN (S.) WAR OF 1812:--The merchant's clerk, and other tales N. Y.

1836

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4572 WAR OF 1812:--WARREN'S Duties of attorneys and solicitors N. Y.

1849

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4573 Washington (George) WASHINGTON:--Washington (George), The writings of Bost.

1837

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4575 Washington (George) WASHINGTON:--Washington (George), The writings of Bost.

1837

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4576 Washington (George) WASHINGTON:--Official letters to the Continental American Congress Lond.

1795

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4577 Washington (George) WASHINGTON:--Revolutionary orders of N. Y.

1846

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4578 Jones (J. G.) WASHINGTON:--Oration on Washington Lond.

1798

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4579 WASHINGTON:--Paulding's Life of Washington N.Y.

1841

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4580 Sparks (Jared) WASHINGTON:--Life of George Washington, to which are added his diaries and speeches, and various miscellaneous papers relating to his habits and opinions Lond.

1839

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4581 WASHINGTON:--Upham's Life of General Washington Lond.

1852

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4582 WATSON (H. C.) WASHINGTON:--Camp-fires of the revolution Philad.

1850

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4583 WASHINGTON:--WATTS'S Lyric poems

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4584 WASHINGTON:--WATTS'S Divine and moral songs Lond.

1847

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4585 WAYLEN (Rev. E.) WASHINGTON:--Ecclesiastical reminiscences of the U. States N. Y.

1846

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4586 WEBBER (C. W.) WASHINGTON:--Gold mines of the Gila N. Y.

1849

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4587 WEBBER (C. M.) WASHINGTON:--Old Hicks the guide N. Y.

1848

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4588 WEBSTER (Daniel) WASHINGTON:--WEBSTER (Daniel), Works of, complete Bost.

1851

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4589 WEBSTER (Daniel) WASHINGTON:--WEBSTER (Daniel), Works of N. Y.

1850

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4590 WEBSTER (Daniel) WASHINGTON:--WEBSTER (Daniel), Memorial of, from the city of Boston Bost.

1853

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4591 WEBSTER (N.) WASHINGTON:--American Dictionary N. Y.

1843

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4592 WELLINGTON:--Maxwell's Life of the Duke of Wellington

1839

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4593 Sherer (Capt. M.) WELLINGTON:--Military memoirs of the Duke of Wellington Lond.

USD - Unknown
4594 Stocqueler (J. H.) WELLINGTON:--Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington Lond.

1852

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4595 WESLEY (Rev. John) WELLINGTON:--The journal of N. Y.

1837

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4596 WESLEY (Rev. John) WELLINGTON:--The potent enemies of America laid open: the baneful effects of distilled spirituous liquors and the slavery of the negroes Philad.

USD - Unknown
4597 Baird (Robt.) WEST INDIES:--Impressions and experiences of the West Indies Philad.

1850

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4598 Bajun (M.) WEST INDIES:--Menoires pour servir a Fhistoire de Cayenne et de la Guiane Francoise Par.

1798

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4599 Bruce (Peter Henry, a military officer) WEST INDIES:--Containing an account of his travels in Germany, Russia, Tartary, Turkey, the West Indies, &c. Lond.

1782

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4600 Gage (Thomas) WEST INDIES:--Travels: new survey of the West Indies Lond.

1648

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4601 Gage (Thomas) WEST INDIES:--Travels: new survey of the West Indies Lond.

1677

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    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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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.
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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.
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