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Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOSEPH J. COOKE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. PART II. THE WHOLE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, AT THE CLINTON HALL SALE ROOMS, ON Monday, October 1, 1883, and the following days. TWO SESSIONS DAILY, AT 3 O'CLOCK AND 7.30 P. M, 18831001,

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 01, 1883 - October 01, 1883

Page Size: 3295 items in 33 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
291	BRYANT JACOB	New System; or, An Analysis of Ancient Geography, wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of Fable	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
292	BRYANT JACOB	Observations and Inquiries relating to various parts of Ancient History	London	1767	USD -	Unknown
293	BRYDONE P.	A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a series of letters to William Beckford	London	1773	USD -	Unknown
294	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	The Autobiography, Times, Opinions and Contemporaries of	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
295	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	Bertram, a Poetical Tale	Kent	1814	USD -	Unknown
296	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	The Lake of Geneva, a Poem, moral and descriptive, in seven books	Geneva	1832	USD -	Unknown
297	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	Letters from the Continent	Kent	1821	USD -	Unknown
298	BRYDGES EGERTON	Letters from the Continent	Kent	1821	USD -	Unknown
299	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	Lord Brokenhurst; or, A Fragment of Winter Leaves	London	1819	USD -	Unknown
300	BRYDGES SAMUEL EGERTON	BRYDGES, SAMUEL EGERTON. Poems	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
301	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	The Sylvan Wanderer, consisting of a Series of Moral, Sentimental and Critical Essays		1813	USD -	Unknown
302	BRYDGES SIR EGERTON	CENSURA LITERARIA. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
303	BUCHANAN CLAUDIUS	Christian Researches in Asia	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
304	BUCHANAN ROBERT	The Book of Onn. A Prelude to the Epic	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
305		BUCHANAN'S Ballad Stories...			USD -	Unknown
306	BUCK GEORGE	The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third	London	1647	USD -	Unknown
307	BUCKINGHAM GEORGE DUKE OF	BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE, DUKE OF. Miscellaneous Works	London	1707	USD -	Unknown
308	BUNYAN JOHN	The Pilgrim's Progress, with a Life of John Bunyan by Robert Southey	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
309		BUNYAN'S Pilgrim's Progress	London		USD -	Unknown
310		BUNYAN. The Jerusalem Sinner Saved. Lond., 1845....			USD -	Unknown
311	BURDER WILLIAM	A History of All Religions	Philadelphia	1872	USD -	Unknown
312	BURDER GEORGE	A Complete History of the Holy Bible	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
313	BUCKINGHAM JAMES S.	National Evils and Practical Remedies	London		USD -	Unknown
314	BUFFON-LECLERC	Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, Augmentee de Notes, d'Additions considerables, et mise au courant des connoisances actuplles		1803	USD -	Unknown
315	BUFFON COUNT DE	Natural History, General and Particular	London	1812	USD -	Unknown
316		BUFFON'S Natural History, containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Minerals	London	1797	USD -	Unknown
317	BULLINGER HENRI	A Hundred Sermons upon the Apocalips		1549	USD -	Unknown
317a		BULWER'S Athens, its Rise and Fall...			USD -	Unknown
318		BURE (de). Bibliographie Instructive ou, Traite de la Connoissance des Livres, rares et singuliers	Paris	1763	USD -	Unknown
319	BURGH J.	Dignity of Human Nature; or, An Account of the certain and established means for Attaining the True End of our Existence	London	1754	USD -	Unknown
320	BURGH JAMES	Political Disquisitions; or, Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects and Abuses	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
321	BURGOYNE SIR JOHN	Life and Correspondence	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
322	BURKE JOHN	The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
323		BURKE'S Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
324	BURKE EDMUND	BURKE, EDMUND. The Works of	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
325	BURKE EDMUND	BURKE, EDMUND. The Works of	Boston	1806	USD -	Unknown
326	BURKE EDMUND	BURKE, EDMUND. The Works of	New York	1833	USD -	Unknown
327	BURNET JOHN	Practical Hints on Composition in Painting	London	1864	USD -	Unknown
328	BURNET BISHOP	History of his Own Time	London	1724	USD -	Unknown
329	BURNET GILBERT	Memoirs of the Life and Actions James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald	London	1627	USD -	Unknown
330	BURNEY CHARLES	Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
331	BURNEY CHARLES	The Present State of Music in Germany	London	1775	USD -	Unknown
332	BURNHAM GEO. P.	Memoirs of the United States Secret Service	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
333	BURNS ROBERT	BURNS, ROBERT. The Poetical Works of	Boston	1863	USD -	Unknown
334	BURNS ROBERT	Songs, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
335	BURTHOGGE RICHARD M. D.	An Essay upon Reason, and the nature of Spirits	London	1694	USD -	Unknown
336		BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy	London	1660	USD -	Unknown
337	BURTON	The Anatomy of Melancholy	Boston	1861	USD -	Unknown
338	BURTON RICHARD	F. Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, six months on sick leave	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
339	BURTON JOHN HILL	Lives of Simon, Lord Lovat, and Duncan Forbes, of Culloden	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
340	BUSH RICHARD J.	Reindeer, Dogs and Snow Shoes: A Journal of Siberian Travel	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
341	BUTLER	Florilegio di vite d' Santi scritte in Inglese dall' abate Albano Butler con note istoriche e critiche e recate in Italiano sulla libera version Francese	Monza	1834	USD -	Unknown
342	BUTLER JOSEPH	Fifteen Sermons preached at the Rott's Chapel	Glasgow	1769	USD -	Unknown
343	BUTLER SAMUEL	BUTLER, SAMUEL. The Pictorial Works of	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
344	BUTLER SAMUEL	Hudibras, with variorum notes, selected principally from Grey and Nash	London	1871	USD -	Unknown
345	BUTLER CHARLES	The Life of Hugo Grotius	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
346	BUTLER F. T.	Apollyon and the reaction of the Slavonians	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
347	BUTLER	The Works of the Right Rev. Father in God, Joseph Butler, late Lord Bishop of Durham	Oxford	1820	USD -	Unknown
348	BUXTON THOMAS F.	The African Slave Trade and its Remedy	London	1840	USD -	Unknown
349	BYRON LORD	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, and other poems	London	1875	USD -	Unknown
350	BYRON LORD	The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
351	BYRON	BYRON. Poems	London		USD -	Unknown
352		CABALA. Mysteries of State and Government in Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State in the Reigns of King Henry VIII	London	1663	USD -	Unknown
353	CABINET ROMAIN	Recueil d'Antiquitez Romaines, qui consistent en Bas Reliefs, Statues des Dieux et des Hommes, Instruments Sacerdotaux, Lampes & que l'on trouve a Rome	Amsterdam	1706	USD -	Unknown
354	CALAMY EDMUND	Thirteen Sermons concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity	London	1722	USD -	Unknown
355	CALAMY BENJAMIN AND WM.	SHERLOCK. Sermons, preach'd upon Several Occasions	London	1730	USD -	Unknown
356	CALFHILL JAMES	An Answer to John Martiall's Treatise of the Cross	Cambridge	1846	USD -	Unknown
357	CALVERT GEORGE H.	Goethe; His Life and Works	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
358		CALVERT'S Schiller and Goethe...			USD -	Unknown
359	CALVIN JOHN	Treatise on Relics	Edinburgh	1854	USD -	Unknown
360	CALVIN JOHN	The Institution of Christian Religion	London	1611	USD -	Unknown
361	CALVIN JOHN	Institutio Christianae religionis	Geneva	1553	USD -	Unknown
362	CAMBRAY ARCHBISHOP OF	Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General; and particularly, that Kind which is fit for the Pulpit	London	1722	USD -	Unknown
362a		CAMDEN SOCIETY. The Publications of the Camden Society			USD -	Unknown
363	CAMDEN, WILLIAM	Remaines concerning Britaine	London	1636	USD -	Unknown
364		CAMERIA. An Appeal to the Public on behalf of Cameria, a Young Lady	Cincinnati	1868	USD -	Unknown
365	CAMDEN, WILLIAM	Britannia, newly translated into English	London	1695	USD -	Unknown
366		CAMPAGNE de l'Armee Francaise en Portugal...			USD -	Unknown
367		CAMPANELLA, THOMAS, de Monarchia Hispanica	Amsterdam	1653	USD -	Unknown
368	CAMPBELL ARCHIBALD	An Enquiry into the Original of Moral Virtue	London	1734	USD -	Unknown
369	CAMPBELL ARCHIBALD	The Necessity of Revelation, or an Enquiry into the Extent of Human Powers with Respect to Matters of Religion	London	1739	USD -	Unknown
370	CAMPBELL DUNCAN	The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
371	CAMPBELL DUNCAN	The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb	London	1732	USD -	Unknown
371a	CAMPBELL GEORGE	The four Gospels, translated from the Greek	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
372	CAMPBELL JOHN	Travels in South Africa	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
373	CAMPBELL THOMAS	Annals of Great Britain	Edinburgh	1807	USD -	Unknown
374	CANOVA ANTONIO	CANOVA, ANTONIO. The Works of	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
375	CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL	CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. Descriptive Account of	Canterbury	1840	USD -	Unknown
376		CANTICUM Canticorum, reproduced in Fac-Simile from the Scriverius copy in the British Museum	London	1860	USD -	Unknown
377	CARACCIOLO HENRIETTA	The Mysteries of the Neapolitan Convents	Chicago	1868	USD -	Unknown
378	CAREY H. C.	The Past, the Present, and Future	Philadelphia	1848	USD -	Unknown
379	CARY ROBERT	Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Mont-mouth	Edinburgh	1808	USD -	Unknown
380	CARET WILLIAM	CARET, WILLIAM. Memoir of	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
381	CARLETON GEORGE	CARLETON, GEORGE. Memoirs of	Edinburgh	1809	USD -	Unknown
382	CARLETON CAPT. GEORGE	CARLETON, CAPT. GEORGE. Memoirs of	Edinburgh	1809	USD -	Unknown
383	CARLYLE ALEXANDER	CARLYLE, ALEXANDER. Autobiography	Boston	1861	USD -	Unknown
384	CARLYLE THOMAS	History of Frederick the Great	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
385	CARLYLE THOMAS	Critical and Miscellaneous Essays	Boston	1838	USD -	Unknown
386		CARLYLE'S Latter-Day Pamphlets, Translation of...			USD -	Unknown
387	CARPENTER WILLIAM B.	Zoology; being A Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the Principal Families of the Animal Kingdom	London	1866	USD -	Unknown

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.
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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