Leavitt & Co.: Varia Literaria: A CAREFULLY SELECTED, CONSIGNMENT FROM EUROPE OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, COMPRISING, EDITTONS-DE-LUXE; ART; AMERICANA; ARCHITECTURE; EARLY PRINTED BOOKS; COSTUME; HERALDRY; FRENCH, IRISH AND SCOTCH LITERATURE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; ARCTIC VOYAG, 18861124,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 24, 1886 - November 24, 1886

Page Size: 860 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
199	DAVENANT (Sir Win.)	DAVENANT'S (Sir Win.) DRAMATIC WORKS	Edinburgh	1872	USD -	Unknown
200		DODSLEY'S SELECT COLLECTION of Old English Plays	London	1780	USD -	Unknown
201		DODSLEY'S COLLECTION of Old English Plays	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
202	DRYDEN	DRYDEN'S DRAMATIC WORKS	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
203		FITZGERALD'S (Percy) NEW HISTORY of the English Stage	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
204	INCHBALD (Mrs)	THE BRITISH THEATRE: A Collection of Plays	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
205	LILLY (John)	LILLY'S (John) DRAMATIC WORKS	London	1858	USD -	Unknown
206	MARSTON (Westland)	MARSTON (Westland) DRAMATIC and Poetical Works of	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
207		MACKLIN'S LOVE A LA MODE, a Farce; Hartson's The Countess of Salisbury, a Tragedy	London	1768-1870	USD -	Unknown
208		DONALDSON'S SELECT COLLECTION of English Plays	Edinburgh	1760	USD -	Unknown
209		THEATRE (The): a Monthly Review, from August 1878 to December 1885	London	1878-85	USD -	Unknown
210		COCHRANE'S THE THEATRE FRANCAIS in the Reign of Louis XV	London	1865-79	USD -	Unknown
211	DRYDEN	DRYDEN'S POETICAL WORKS	Edinburgh	1868-69	USD -	Unknown
212	DUNCAN (Major)	HISTORY of the Royal Artillery	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
213	DAVIE (Sir John)	DAVIE'S (Sir John) COMPLETE POEMS	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
214	HERRICK (Robert)	HERRICK'S (Robert) COMPLETE POEMS	London	1876	USD -	Unknown
215	SIDNEY (Sir Philip)	SIDNEY'S (Sir Philip) COMPLETE POEMS	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
216		EARLY TEUTONIC, Italian, and French Masters	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
217		EARLY DRAWINGS and Illuminations: an Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts	London	1876-79	USD -	Unknown
218		EASTLAKE'S (Lady) Five Great Painters--Da Vinci, Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Durer	London	1883	USD -	Unknown
219		ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY of the Second and Third Centuries	Cambridge	1826	USD -	Unknown
220		EDINBURGH REVIEW, from the commencement in 1802 to 1840	Edinburgh	1802-40	USD -	Unknown
221		EDINBURGH--BITS OF OLD EDINBURGH	Edinburgh	1885	USD -	Unknown
222		EDWARDS' HISTORY, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, maps and fine frontispiece by Bartolozzi	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
223	ELDON (Lord Chancellor)	ELDON (Lord Chancellor), Public and Private Life of	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
224	ELIOT (George)	ROMOLA, Edition de Luxe	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
225	ELLIOT (Admiral Sir George)	TREATISE on Future Naval Battles, and How to Fight Them	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
226		ELLIS' SPECIMENS of Early English Metrical Romances	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
227		ENGLISH VERSE: embracing Ballads and Romances, Chaucer to Burns, Dramatic Scenes and Characters	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
228		EPITAPHS AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS in Greyfriars' Churchyard	Edinburgh	1867	USD -	Unknown
229		ERASMUS' COLLOQUIES	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
230	Archdeacon Jortin	ERASMUS' LIFE	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
231		EUROPEAN TRAVELS--Frederika Bremer's Greece and the Greeks	London	1833-63	USD -	Unknown
232		EUROPEAN TRAVELS--Lyall's Travels in Russia	London	1824-36	USD -	Unknown
233		EUROPEAN TRAVELS--Stark's Letters from Italy...		1780-1826	USD -	Unknown
234	EVELYN (John)	EVELYN'S (John) MEMOIRS	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
235	EVELYN (John)	New Edition	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
236		EWALD'S REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
237		EWALD'S LIFE OF CHRIST	Cambridge	1865-69	USD -	Unknown
238		EWACETIAE--Jocorum atque Seriorum, turn Novorum, turn Selectorum atque Memorabilium, etc.	Norimbergae	1643	USD -	Unknown
239		FACETIAE--Jokeby, a Burlesque on Rokeby	London	1807-13	USD -	Unknown
240		FACSIMILES--An Interesting Collection of Facsimiles of Ancient MSS...			USD -	Unknown
241		FAIRBAIRN'S CRESTS of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland	Edinburgh	N.D.	USD -	Unknown
242	FALKNER (George)	A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
243		FARRAR'S LIFE OF CHRIST, Cassell's large type edition	London	N.D.	USD -	Unknown
244		FAUBLAS--THE AMOURS of the Chevalier de Faublas	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
245		FINLAY'S (Dr) HISTORICAL WORKS--History of the Byzantine Empire, A.D. 706 to 1037		1856-57	USD -	Unknown
246	FITZGERALD (Percy)	The Royal Dukes and Princesses of the Family of George III., 1760-1830	London	1882	USD -	Unknown
247		FITZGERALD'S (Percy) Life and Times of William IV.	London	1884	USD -	Unknown
248		FLORIANT AND FLORETE: a Metrical Romance of the Fourteenth Century		1873	USD -	Unknown
249		FLORICULTURAL CABINET (The) and Florist's Magazine	London	1833-59	USD -	Unknown
250	FONTAINE (La)	FABLES CHOISES, a choice edition	La Haye	1700	USD -	Unknown
251	FONTAINE (La)	Nouvelles de traduit de l'Allemande	Paris	1811, &c.	USD -	Unknown
252		FORSTER'S LIFE of Sir John Eliot, a Parliamentary Hero, 1592-1632	London	1862-72	USD -	Unknown
253	FOSBROKE (Rev. Thos. Dudley)	ENCYCLOPAEDIA of Antiquities and Elements of Archaeology	London	1825-28	USD -	Unknown
254	FOXE (John)	BOOK OF MARTYRS: Acts and Monuments of the Church	London	1839-41	USD -	Unknown
255	BALZAC (Honore de)	CORRESPONDENCE	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
256		BESANT'S The French Humourists from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century	London	1873-76	USD -	Unknown
257		BUSH'S MEMOIRS of the Queens of France	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
258		BUSSEY'S PICTORIAL HISTORY of France and of the French People	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
259		CALTIN'S ANNALS and Legends of Calais	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
260		CAPEFIGUE--HISTOIRE de Philippe-Auguste, 1180-1223	Paris	1842	USD -	Unknown
261	COMINES (Philip de)	COMINES (Philip de)--HISTORICAL Memoirs of	London	1786-1817	USD -	Unknown
262		CORNEILLE AND THS TIMES; and The Last Days of the Reign of Louis Philippe	London	1852-67	USD -	Unknown
263		CROKER'S ESSAYS on the Early Period of the French Revolution	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
264		DEANS' AND MARTIN'S HISTORY of France from the Earliest Times	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
265	M. L. Bellaguet	CHRONIQUE des Religieux de St Denys		1839-52	USD -	Unknown
266	M. Mignet	NEGOCIATIONS relatives a la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV		1835-42	USD -	Unknown
267		LETTERS et Pieces Diverses relatives au Regne de Francois II...			USD -	Unknown
268		LETTERS et Pieces Diverses relatives au Regne de Francois II...			USD -	Unknown
269		LETTERS et Pieces Diverses relatives au Regne de Francois II...			USD -	Unknown
270		FITZPATRICK'S THE GREAT CONDE and the Period of the Fronde	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
271		FLEISCHMANN'S MEMOIRS of Count Miot de Melito, French Ambassador 1788-1815	London	1881	USD -	Unknown
272		FRANCE AND ITS REVOLUTIONS: a Pictorial History, 1789-1848	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
273		FRENCH REVOLUTION: a Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the most distinguished British Writers on the subject of the Revolution	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
274		JERVIS' HISTORY of the Church of France to the Revolution	London	1849-72	USD -	Unknown
275		LOCKROY'S THE GREAT FRENCH REVOLUTION	London	1848-82	USD -	Unknown
276		LE BRUN--SOUVENIRS of Madame Vigee Le Brun	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
277		Louis XVII., His Life, His Suffering, His Death	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
278		MEMOIRES de Celeste Mogador	Paris	1858	USD -	Unknown
279		MUIRHEAD'S TRANSLATION of the Vaux-de-Vire of Meistre Jean Le Houx, Advocate, of Vire	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
280		RIEVE'S ROYAL and Republican France	London	1872	USD -	Unknown
281	SEGUR (Le Comte de)	SEGUR (Le Comte de)--Memoires	Paris	1825	USD -	Unknown
282		SIMON'S THE GOVERNMENT of M. Thiers from 8th February 1871 to 24th May 1873	London	1879	USD -	Unknown
283	SUCHET (Marechal)	Memoires du, sur ses Campagnes en Espagne	Paris	1829	USD -	Unknown
284		TAYLOR'S MEMOIRS of the House of Orleans	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
285		VAN LAUN'S HISTORY of the French Revolutionary Epoch	London	1878	USD -	Unknown
286		WRIGHT'S LIFE AND TIMES of Louis Philippe	London	1849-80	USD -	Unknown
287		FREEMASONRY--Oliver's The Antiquities of Free Masonry; and Signs and Symbols of Freemasonry	London	1823-26	USD -	Unknown
288	Carlile and Fellowes	FREEMASONRY, The Manual, Ritual, and the Mysteries of Freemasonry	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
289		FREMONT'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION to the Rocky Mountains in 1842	London	1846-81	USD -	Unknown
290	FROISSART (the Chronicler)	FROISSART (the Chronicler), Memoirs of the Life of			USD -	Unknown
291	FULLER (William, 1674)	Life of Fuller, declared by the House of Commons to be a Notorious Imposter, &c.	London	1692	USD -	Unknown
292		FULLARTON'S GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD	Fullarton	N.D.	USD -	Unknown
293	Knowles	FUSELI'S (Henry, the Painter), Life and Writings	London	1824-31	USD -	Unknown
294		GAELIC--SHAW'S ANALYSIS of the Gaelic Language		1778-1858	USD -	Unknown
295		GAELIC--MACINTOSH'S COLLECTION of Gaelic Proverbs; and a Choice Collection of Gaelic Poems	Edinburgh	1813-19	USD -	Unknown
296	GAJO (Barth.)	EPITOME Historico-Chronologica Gestorum omnium Patriarcharum, Ducum Judicum, Regum, et Pontificum ab Adam ad Agrippam, etc.	Romce	1751	USD -	Unknown
297		GALE'S THE COURT OF THE GENTILES			USD -	Unknown
298		GAUTIER'S NATURE AT HOME	London	1883	USD -	Unknown

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.