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Leavitt & Co.: The Library and Art Collection of Henry de pene du Bois, of New york, Author of--"An Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding," American Correspondent of "Le Livre" (Octave Uzanne, Editor), etc., etc. NEW YORK: GEORGE A. LEAVITT AND , 18870613,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 13, 1887 - June 13, 1887

Page Size: 2524 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
296	RUBENS (Peter Paul)	POMPA INTROITUS FERDINANDI AUSTRIACI, Hispaniar. Infantis, etc.	Antwerp	1641 [1642]	USD -	11.00
297	RUBENS	LA GALLERIE DV PALAIS DV LUXEMBOURG, peinte par RUBENS	Paris	1710	USD -	10.00
298	RUSKIN (John)	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	London	1849	USD -	26.00
299	RUSKIN	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	Kent	1880	USD -	10.00
300	SAINT ARROMAN (Raoul de)	La Gravure a l'Eau-Forte, Essai Historique; also--Comment Je Deviens Graveur a l'Eau-Forte, par le COMTE LEPIC	Paris	1876	USD -	2.00
301		SAINTE BIBLE (La), Traduite par LEMAISTRE DE SACY	Paris	1841-45	USD -	5.30
302	SAINTE BIBLE (La)	Ancien et Nouveau Testament, Recit et Commentaire par L'ABBE F. R. SALMON	Paris	1878	USD -	1.90
303	SAINT PIERRE (BERNARDIN DE)	PAUL. ET VIR-GINIE, PRECEDE D'UNE PREFACE PAR JULES JANIN	Paris	1869	USD -	9.50
304	M. L'ABBE DASSANCE	SAINTS EVANGILES (Les). Traduits de la Vulgate	Paris	1836	USD -	5.25
305		SALON DE PARIS ILLUSTRE--1885	Paris	1885	USD -	10.00
306	SALVARDI (Natale)	Collezione Scelta dei Monumenti Sepolcrali del Comune Cimitero di Bologna	Bologna	1825	USD -	5.25
307	SAUVAN (M.)	Picturesque Tour of the Seine from Paris to the Sea	London	1821	USD -	6.00
308	SCHEVCHZER (J. J.)	KUPFER BIBEL in welcher die Physica Sacra, Beheiligte Natur Wissenschafft	Augsburg	1731-35	USD -	15.00
309	SCHMOLZE (Carl Heinrich)	An Artist's Poems	Phila.	1864	USD -	0.25
310	SCHREIBER (Alois)	Teutschland und die Teutschen	Carlsruhe	1823	USD -	0.25
311		SCORE OF ETCHINGS (A), WITH TEXT BY ROGER RIORDAN	N. Y.	n. d.	USD -	2.50
312	SCOTT (Sir Walter)	THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, the SPLENDID ABBOTSFORD EDITION	Edinburgh	1842-47	USD -	204.00
313	SHAKESPEARE	TWELVE SUPERB PHOTOGRAVURES OF SCENES IN "ROMEO AND JULIET"	Paris	n. d.	USD -	11.00
314	SMITH (John Thomas, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum)	THE CRIES OF LONDON, Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Ancient and Modern Times	London	1839	USD -	2.25
315	SOLON (L. M.)	ART OF THE OLD ENGLISH POTTER [an account of the Progress of the Craft in England]	London	1883	USD -	10.50
316	SOTHEBY (S. Leigh)	PRINCIPIA TYPOGRAPHICA: the BLOCK-BOOKS	London	1858	USD -	20.25
317		SPORT WITH GUN AND ROD in American Woods and Waters	N. Y.	1883	USD -	5.50
318	STIMMER	Neue Kunstliche Figuren Biblischer Historien	Basle	1576	USD -	2.25
319	[STORER (James)]	ANTIQUARIAN ITINERARY, comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated and Domestic	London	1815-18	USD -	7.88
320	STOTHERT (James)	French and Spanish Painters	Phila. (London)	n. d.	USD -	1.13
321	STURT (J.)	The Orthodox Communicant	London	1721	USD -	7.00
322	THACKERAY (William Makepeace)	The Mahogany Tree	Boston	1887	USD -	3.25
323	THACKERAY	Character Sketches from, in six illustrations by FREDERICK BARNARD, ARTIST'S SIGNED PROOFS ON JAPAN PAPER	London	n, d.	USD -	6.00
324		THAMES (The)	London	1822	USD -	2.50
325	THOMSON (Stephen)	Masterpieces of Antique Art	London	1878	USD -	1.00
326	THORNBURY (Walter)	Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs	London	1876	USD -	1.00
327	TIFFIN (W. F.)	Gossip about Portraits, principally Engraved Portraits	London	1866	USD -	0.30
328		TOMBLESON'S Rheinansichten			USD -	0.11
329	TOPFFER (R.)	Premiers Voyages en Zigzag ou Excursions d'un Pensionnat en Vacances dans les Cantons Suisses et sur le Revers Italien des Alpes	Paris	1870-74	USD -	4.25
330	TOPFFER	Reflexions et Menus--Propos d'un Peintre Genevois, ou Essai sur le Beau dans les Arts	Paris	1848	USD -	1.20
331		TURENNE: sa Vie, les Institutions, Militaires de son temps par JULES ROY	Paris	1884	USD -	5.25
332	TURNER (J. M. W.)	ANNUAL TOUR: Wanderings by the Loire	London	1833	USD -	1.00
333		UHRSPRUNG DER EUROPAEISCHEN REICHE	Augsburg	[1705]	USD -	1.10
334		UNIVERS ILLUSTRE. Journal Hebdomadaire	Paris	1858-68	USD -	8.25
335	VACHON (Marius)	L'Ancien Hotel de Ville de Paris, 1533-1871	Paris	1882	USD -	2.50
336	VAN DYCK (Antoine)	Sa Vie et son CEuvre par JULES GUIFFREY	Paris	1882	USD -	8.50
337	VASARI (Giorgio)	Trattato della Pittvre	Florence	1619	USD -	2.25
338	VECELLIO (Cesare)	Costumes Anciens et Modernes--Habiti Antichi et Moderni di tutto il Mondo	Paris	1860	USD -	5.00
339		VENICE.--UN MOIS A VENISE ou Recueil de Vues Pittoresques, avec un Texte Historique et Explicatif	Paris	1825	USD -	2.00
340	VERNON (A. Gosmond de)	Les Campagnes de Louis XV., le Bien Aime, Representees par des Figures Allegoriques, avec une Explication Historique	Paris	1751	USD -	3.00
341		VERSAILLES GALLERY			USD -	6.00
342		VIES DES FAMEUX ARCHITECTES ET SCULP-TEURS	Paris	1787	USD -	5.00
343	VILLARS (P.)	L'Angleterre, l'Ecosse et l'Irlande	Paris	n. d.	USD -	4.00
344		VITRUVIUS.--ELEMENTA ARCHITECTURE CIVILIS AD VITRUVII Veterumque Disciplinam et Recentiorum Praesertim a PALLADII Exempla Probatoria Concinnata auctore HENRICO ALDRICH S. T. P. AEdis CHRISTI olim Decano	Oxford	1789	USD -	0.25
345	WALKER (George)	Descriptive Catalogue of Choice Original Pictures by the Most Esteemed Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch and British Schools	Edinburgh	1807	USD -	0.60
346	WALLON (H., Secretaire de PAcademie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)	JEANNE D'ARC	Paris	1876	USD -	6.75
347	WALPOLE (Horatio, Earl of Orford)	WALPOLE (Horatio, Earl of Orford). Works	London	1798	USD -	4.13
348	WESTALL (William) and OWEN (Samuel)	Picturesque Tour of the River Thames	London	1828	USD -	2.13
349	WESTMACOTT (C. M.)	British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture, Comprising a General, Historical and Critical Catalogue with Separate Notices of Every Work of Fine Art in the Principal Collections	London	1824	USD -	0.25
350		WILSON GALLERY. Prix d'Adjudication des Tableaux de Premier Ordre Anciens et Modernes qui Composaient la Galerie de M. JOHN W. WILSON	[Paris]	1881	USD -	7.00
351	WOLTMANN (Alfred) and WOERMANN (Karl)	History of Ancient, Early Christian Mediaeval Painting	N. Y.	1880-85	USD -	12.00
352	YOUNG (John, Engraver in Mezzotinto and Keeper of the British Institution)	Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists, in the Possession of SIR JOHN FLEMING LEICESTER, Bart	London	1821	USD -	2.50
353		MISSALE ROMANUM." A FOURTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF EARLY ANGLO-NORMAN EXECUTION AND WRITTEN IN LATIN AND IN BLACK AND RED GOTHIC SCRIPT, ON 90 LEAVES OR 180 PAGES OF VELLUM		STEC. XIV.	USD -	75.00
354		MS.--PASSIO S. KATHARINE VIRGINIS and SERMONES AUGUSTINI DE PASSIONE DOMINI		SAEC. XIV.	USD -	6.00
355		MS.--LATIN PRAYER BOOK, TO WHICH IS ADDED--"ALTARIS CUM ORATIONIBUS POST MISSAM DICENDIS		SAEC. XV.	USD -	8.00
356		MS.--"THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON"		STEC. XV.	USD -	8.00
357		MS.--ORIGINAL SEVENTEENTH CENTURY RE LIGIOUS PAINTING ON VELLUM		SAEC. XVII.	USD -	16.00
358		MS.--"EXPOSITIO CANONIS MISSAE"		SAEC. XV.	USD -	1.00
359		MS.--"LEGENDA SANCTORUM"		SAEC. XIV.	USD -	1,160.00
360		MS.--LE TESTAMENT DE MAISTRE JEHAN DE MEUNG		SAEC. XIV.	USD -	80.00
361		MS.--"HEURES DE LA SAINTE VIERGE"		SAEC. XV.	USD -	575.00
362		MS.--"HORAE BEATAE MARINE VIRGINIS, CUM CALENDARIO"		SAEC. XV.	USD -	150.00
363		MS.--"GETYDENBOEK, MET KALENDER"		SAEC. XV.	USD -	58.00
364		MS.--"HEURES DE LA SAINTE VIERGE"		SAEC. XV.	USD -	105.00
365		MS.--"PRAEPARATIO AD CELEBRATIONEM MISSAE," ETC.		SAEC. XVI.	USD -	2.00
366		Illuminated Black Letter.--"HEURES A LUSAIGE DE ROME TOUT AU LONG SAS. RIENS REQUERIR AUEC LES FIGURES DE LAPOCALIPSE"	PARIS	SAEC. XV. [1499]	USD -	170.00
367		Illuminated Black Letter.--"HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS SECUNDUM USUM ROMANUM TOTALITER AD LONGU. SINE REQUIRE, CUM MULTIS SUFFRAGIIS ET ORATIONIBUS DE NOUO ADDITIS"		SAEC. XVI.	USD -	22.80
368		MS.--SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HERALDIC AND MONASTIC MSS		SAEC. XVII.	USD -	7.00
369		MS.--SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DIPLOMA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA		SAEC. XVII.	USD -	6.00
370		MS.---"LES PRESOMPTIONS DES FEMMES." AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH MANUSCRIPT ON EIGHT LEAVES OR SIXTEEN PAGES OF VELLUM--WITH CURIOUS DRAWING ON TITLE		SAEC. XVIII.	USD -	11.00
371		MS.--HISTOIRE DE BELLE-ISLE-EN-MER PAR LE R. P. FRANCOIS MARIE DE BELLE-ISLE, CAPUCIN, AUTREMENT LE R. P. LE GALLEN, 1754"		SAEC. XVIII.-XIX.	USD -	15.00
372		MS.---"FESTA PROPRIA O. S. B. IN MONASTERIO AD SANCTA MAFFRAM 1776"		SAEC. XVIII.	USD -	16.00
373		MS.--"TRAITE DE MIGNATURE POUR APPENDRE AISEMENT A PEINTRE SANS MAITRE, AVEC LE SECRET DE FAIRE LES PLUS BELLES COULEURS, L'OR, ETC.		SAEC. XVIII.	USD -	3.50
374		MS.--"LIVRE D'EXAMEN." AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IN FRENCH CAREFULLY WRITTEN ON 134 LEAVES OR 268 PAGES, EACH BORDERED WITH LINES RULED IN RED		SAEC. XVIII.	USD -	5.00
375		MS.--"LA CHANSON FRANQAISE--RECUEIL PAR E. OUDEN, 1840," etc.		SAEC. XIX.	USD -	3.00
376		MS.--"PIECES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS by J. S. [JOSEPH SPENCER], PHILADELPHIA, MDCCCXII"		SAEC. XIX.	USD -	5.00
377		MS.--HERALDIC AND MANUSCRIPT COLLEC TION, I. E.:---I. "LIBER A. WAPEN SAMMLUNG"			USD -	56.00
378		HERALDIC ALBUMS		SACE. XVIII	USD -	11.00
379		NOUVELLES HEURES GOTHIQUES, D'APRES LES MANUSCRIPTS DES BIBLIOTHEQUES NATIONALES ET PAR-TICULIERES	Paris	n. d.	USD -	11.00
380		HEVRES ROMAINES AVEC FIGURES PAR A. QVEYROY GRAVEES PAR A. GVSMAN	Tovrs	1874	USD -	4.00
381	GIBERT DE MONTREUIL	ROMAN DE LA VIOLETTE ou DE GERARD DE NEVERS EN VERS DU XIIIE SIECLE, PUBLIE POUR LA PREMIERE FOIS D'APRES DEUX MANUSCRITS DE LA BIBLIOTHLQUE ROY ALE, PAR FRANCISQUE MICHEL	Paris	1834	USD -	42.00
382	MEISTER STEPHEN	REPRODUCTIONS AFTER, IN GOLD AND COLORS, BEING THE SERIES OF FIVE BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS AFTER THE ORIGINALS BY MEISTER STEPHEN, OF THE FAMOUS "TRIPTYCH OF COLOGNE"			USD -	14.00
383	PINTURICCHIO (Bernardino)	"ST. CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA PLEADING BEFORE HER JUDGES"			USD -	1.65
384		"MADONNA AND CHILD," SUPERB CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN GOLD AND COLORS ISSUED BY THE "ARUNDEL SOCIETY," AFTER ONE OF THE OLD MASTERS, WHO PRECEDED RAFFAELO			USD -	3.00
385	SEGHERS (Louis)	TRESOR CALIGRAPHIQUE Recueil de Lettrines Initiates, etc.	Anvers	n. d.	USD -	5.00
386	SOLEIL (Felix)	LES HEURES GOTHIQUES et la Litterature Pieuse aux XVe et XVIe Siecles	Rouen	1882	USD -	9.00
387	DENIS (Ferdinand)	Histoire de l'Ornamentation des Manuscrits	Paris	1880	USD -	2.25
388	MARCHE (A. Lecoq de la)	Les Manuscrits et la Miniature	Paris	n. d.	USD -	1.50
389	ABD-EL-KADER (Sidi-el-Hadji-Ouled-Mahiddin, the celebrated defender of the Arab Nationality)	A. L. S.		1276, i. e. 1859	USD -	4.00
390	ABOUT (Edmond, author of "La Grece Contemporaine" etc.)	A. L. S.			USD -	1.50
391	ADAM (Adolphe Charles, French composer, musical critic and author of "Souvenirs d'un Musicien")	A. L. S.			USD -	0.50
392	ADAM (Juliette Lamber, French authoress)	A. L. S.			USD -	0.50
393		AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITTERATEURS. Signatures			USD -	0.05
394		ANNE OF AUSTRIA (Queen Regent of France, mother of Louis XIV., wife of Louis XIII. and daughter of Philip II. of Spain). L. S.		Melun, le 24 Juin 1652	USD -	3.00
395	AUBER (D. F. E., the great French musical composer, author of "Fra Diavolo," etc.)	A. L. S.			USD -	1.75

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.