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
1		ABDICATION, Debate between the H. of Lords and H. of Commons in 1688	London	1695	USD -	Unknown
2	ABERNETHY (Dr. Macilwain G.)	ABERNETHY (Dr. Macilwain G.), Memoirs of	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
3	ABOUT (Edmond)	Tolla, a tale of modern Rome	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
4	Lobo (Father)	ABYSSINIA:--Voyages to Abyssinia	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
5		ABYSSINIA:--Bussell's history of Nubia and Abyssinia	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
6	Salt (H.)	ABYSSINIA:--Abyssinia	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
7	Rivers (H. W.)	ACCIDENTS:--Directions for treating accidents	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
8	Fuller	ACCIDENTS:--ADAMS, View of all religions	Lond.	1805	USD -	Unknown
9	ADAMS, (S.)	ACCIDENTS:--Oration in Philadelphia, 1776	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
10		ACCIDENTS:--ADAMS, Suppressed history of Adams's administration	Philadelphia	1846	USD -	Unknown
11		ACCIDENTS:--ADAMS, and Jefferson, A selection of eulogies pronounced in the different States in honor of those illustrious patriots and statesmen	Hartford	1826	USD -	Unknown
12		ACCIDENTS:--ADDISON'S miscellaneous works in prose and verse		1726	USD -	Unknown
13	Dr. Hurd	ACCIDENTS:--ADDISON'S works	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
14		AFRICA:--African continent	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
15	Cumming (R. G.)	AFRICA:--Five years of a hunter's life in the far interior of South Africa	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
16		AFRICA:--Denham and Clapperton's travels in Africa	Boston	1826	USD -	Unknown
17	Duncan (J.)	AFRICA:--Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
18	Hawthorne (N.)	AFRICA:--Journal of an African cruiser	New York		USD -	Unknown
19		AFRICA:--Landers's discovery and termination of the Niger	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
20	Ludolphus (J.)	AFRICA:--History of Ethiopia	London	1682	USD -	Unknown
21	Morell (T. R.)	AFRICA:--Algeria: the topography and history, political, social, and natural, of French Africa	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
22	Poole (Dr.)	AFRICA:--Life, scenery, and customs in Sierra Leone and Gambia			USD -	Unknown
23	Richardson (J.)	AFRICA:--Travels in the great Desert of Sahara in 1845 and 1846	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
24	Richardson (J.)	AFRICA:--Mission to Central Africa	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
25		AFRICA:--Scenery of Africa			USD -	Unknown
26		AFRICA:--Shaler's sketches of Algiers, political, historical, and civil	Boston	1836	USD -	Unknown
27	Steadman (A.)	AFRICA:--Wanderings and adventures in the interior of South Africa	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
28		AFRICA:--Testament in the original language	Cuttack	1845	USD -	Unknown
28a		AFRICA:--Vaillant's travels into the interior part of Africa	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
29		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Agricultural reports of the Patent Office		1851	USD -	Unknown
30		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Adams's town and country	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
31	Andrews (G. H.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Modern husbandry, a practical and scientific treatise on agriculture	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
32	Clarke (John)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Thorough draining on a dead level	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
33		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Clarke (John), on the mulberry tree and silkworm	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	Unknown
34	Colton (J. H.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Western farmer and emigrant's guide	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
35		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Complete grazier, and farmer's and cattle-breeder's assistant	London	1830	USD -	Unknown
36		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Country house, containing the poultry-yard, the piggery, the ox, and the dairy	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
37	Cruikshank (Thos.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--The practical planter	Edinburgh	1830	USD -	Unknown
38	Flint (C.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Treatise on grasses and forage plants	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
39	Gisbornes (T.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Essays on agriculture	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
40		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Guenon on milch-cows	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
41	Johnson (J. F. W.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Farmer's encyclopedia and dictionary of rural affairs			USD -	Unknown
42	Loudon (J. C.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--The villa gardener	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
43	Loudon (J.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--A treatise on farming, improving and managing country residences	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
44	Kerr	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Dixon (E. S.), On ornamental and domestic poultry	Philadelphia	1851	USD -	Unknown
45		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Doyle's rural economy	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
46	Dates, Youatt, Skinner, and Mills	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Farmer's barn book	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
47		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Farmers' library, viz., Stephen's book of the farm, Petz-holdt's lectures on agricultural chemistry, and Thaer's principles of agriculture	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
48	Fessenden (Thos.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Complete farmer and gardener	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
49		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Low's domestic animals of Great Britain			USD -	Unknown
50		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Marshall's rural economy of Yorkshire		1788	USD -	Unknown
51		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Marshall's farmers' miscellany	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
52	McMahon (B.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--American gardening	Philadelphia	1830	USD -	Unknown
52a		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Meader's modern gardener	London	1772	USD -	Unknown
53	Miller (T.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Country year-book	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
53a		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Nouvelle maison rustique ou economie generale de tonsles biens de campagne	Paris	1775	USD -	Unknown
54		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Ohio Cultivator	Columbus	1845	USD -	Unknown
55		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--The potato: an essay on its constitution			USD -	Unknown
56		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Rham's dictionary of the farm			USD -	Unknown
57	Schenck (S.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Gardeners' text-book	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
58		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Skinner's journal of agriculture	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
59		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Skinner's agriculture, &c.			USD -	Unknown
59a	Sproatle (John)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Practical agriculture	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
60	Stephens (H.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Book of the farm	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
61	Stewart (H.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--The planter's guide	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
62		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Transactions of the New York Agricultural Society, &c.		1850	USD -	Unknown
63	Cobbett	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Tull's horse-hoeing husbandry	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
64		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--United States farm book	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
65	White (J.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Compendium of cattle medicine	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
66	Williamson (Capt. Thos.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Agricultural mechanism	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
67		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Yankee farmer		1841	USD -	Unknown
68		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Youatt on cattle, their breeds, management, and diseases	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
69		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Youatt (Wm.) on the pig	Philad.	1857	USD -	Unknown
70	AGUILAR (Grace)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Woman's friendship, &c.			USD -	Unknown
71	AGUILAR (Grace)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Days of Bruce	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
72	Aitken (J. and A. L.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Miscellaneous pieces in prose	London	1770	USD -	Unknown
73	AINSWORTH (W. H.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Jack Sheppard	Phil.	1839	USD -	Unknown
74		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--AKENSIDE'S poetical works	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
75	ALCOTT (Dr.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--The young wife, mother, husband, and housekeeper		1852	USD -	Unknown
76	ALCOTT (Dr.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Library of health	Bost.	1837	USD -	Unknown
77	ALCOTT (Dr. W. A.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Health tracts	Bost.	1841	USD -	Unknown
78	ALDUS	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--Scriptores de Res Rustica. Libri de Re Rustica, Catonis, Varronis, et Columellae			USD -	Unknown
79	Williams	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALEXANDER the Great, Life of	New York	1833	USD -	Unknown
80	ALFIERI (V.)	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALFIERI (V.), Autobiography of	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
81		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALGERS, Poetry of the East	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
82		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALI Baba and the forty thieves	London		USD -	Unknown
83	H. Moore	AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALLEN (Ethan), Memoir of	Plattsburgh	1834	USD -	Unknown
84		AGRICULTURE AND PLANTING, HUSBANDRY, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, FOWLS, MACHINERY, &C.:--ALPHABET annotated	London		USD -	Unknown
85	Scheuchzer (J. J.)	ALPS:--Helveticus sive itineras Alpina	Ling. and Bat.	1723	USD -	Unknown
86	Strack (L.)	ALPS:--Incidents of social life amid the European Alps	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
87	Edwards (W. H.)	AMAZON:--Voyage up the river Amazon	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
88	Herndon (W. L.)	AMAZON:--Exploration of the valley of the Amazon	Washington	1854	USD -	Unknown
89		AMAZON:--Smyth and Lowe's narrative of a journey from Lima to Para	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
90	Warren (J. E.)	AMAZON:--Para; or, scenes and adventures on the Amazon	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
91		AMAZON:--AMERICAN Almanac for 1844, '46, and '48	Boston		USD -	Unknown
92		AMAZON:--AMERICAN Almanacs, a rare collection of old, from 1792 to 1830			USD -	Unknown
93		AMAZON:--AMERICAN Almanacs, 1760 to 1800	Boston		USD -	Unknown
94		AMAZON:--AMERICAN battles...			USD -	Unknown
95	G. Chalmers	AMAZON:--AMERICAN Colonies, History of the revolt of the	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
96		AMAZON:--AMERICAN eloquence...	New York	1845	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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