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
1308		ARMY AND NAVY:--Nicholas's (Sir H.), history of the royal navy from the earliest period		1847	USD -	Unknown
1309		ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Claggett's manual of reading, &c.		1846	USD -	Unknown
1310		ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--English prose; being copious extracts from the works of the best English prose writers, from the age of Edward IV. to the present time			USD -	Unknown
1311	Fowler (W. C.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--The English language in its elements and forms	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
1312	Gourand (F. F.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Phreno-mnemotechnic dictionary	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
1313	Harrison (Rev.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Rise, progress, and present structure of the English language	Philadelphia	1850	USD -	Unknown
1314	Johnson (Edward)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Nuces philosophies; or, the philosophy of things as developed from the study of the philosophy of words	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
1315	Johnson (S.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Dictionary of the English language	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
1316	Johnson (S.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Idem	London		USD -	Unknown
1317	Knowles (Q.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Improved pronouncing dictionary	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1318	Latham (R. G.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Handbook of the English language	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
1319		ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Mcelligott's young analyzer	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
1320		ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Parker's aids to English composition	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
1321	Perry (W.)	ENGLISH LANGUAGE:--Synonymous etymological dictionary	London	1805	USD -	Unknown
1322		PRONUNCIATION:--Five hundred mistakes of daily occurrence in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English language, corrected	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
1323		PRONUNCIATION:--Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
1324	Tooke (J. H.)	PRONUNCIATION:--Diversions of Purley. Revised and corrected, with numerous additions	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
1325	Walker (J.)	PRONUNCIATION:--Pronouncing dictionary	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
1326	Williams (H. W.)	PRONUNCIATION:--Treatise on English composition	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
1328	Angus (W.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Views of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Great Britain and Wales	London	1787	USD -	Unknown
1329	A. B. Granville, M. D.	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Bathing-places: Spas of England, and principal sea-bathing places	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
1330		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Boydell's history of the river Thames	London	1794	USD -	Unknown
1331		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Camden's Britannia epitomized and continued	London		USD -	Unknown
1332		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Churton's railroad book of England, historical, topographical, and picturesque, descriptive of the towns, countryseats, and other subjects of local interest	London		USD -	Unknown
1333		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Gruden's history of Gravesend and the port of London		1844	USD -	Unknown
1334	Dugdales (L.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Curiosities of Great Britain; England and Wales delineated	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1335	Gilpin (W.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland	London	1788	USD -	Unknown
1336	Gilpin (W.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Observations on several parts of England, the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland in 1772	Lond.	1808	USD -	Unknown
1337		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Hargrave's history of Knaresborough and Harrogate		1798	USD -	Unknown
1338	Howitt (Wm.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Visits to remarkable places	Philadelphia	1842	USD -	Unknown
1339		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Knight's excursion companion from London	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1340	C. Knight	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Knight's Land we live in; a pictorial and literary sketchbook of the British empire		1856	USD -	Unknown
1341	Middernan (S.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Select views in Great Britain	London		USD -	Unknown
1342	Ogilby (John)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Britannia, or illustration of the kingdom of England, geographical and historical description, and representation of the roads thereof, &c.	London	1675	USD -	Unknown
1343	Sears (R.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Pictorial description of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the British Islands	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
1344	Seyer (Rev. S.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Charters and letters patent granted by the kings and queens of England to the town and city of Bristol	Bristol	1812	USD -	Unknown
1345	Sherburne (I. H.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Tourist's guide, or pencillings in England	Philadelphia	1847	USD -	Unknown
1346		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Stockdale (F. W. L.), excursions in the county of Cornwall	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
1347	Tomkin's (C.)	ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--Tour to the Isle of Wight	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
1348		ENGLAND--ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, EXCURSIONS, LOCAL HISTORIES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &C.:--ENTERTAINING and marvellous repository	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
1350	Hope (Rev.)	ENTOMOLOGY:--Coleopterist's manual	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
1351		ENTOMOLOGY:--Kirby and Spence's introduction to entomology, or elements of the natural history of insects	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1352		EPITAPHS:--Southey's chapters on churchyards	N. Y.	1842	USD -	Unknown
1353	Pettigrew (T. J.)	EPITAPHS:--Chronicles of the tombs, a select collection of epitaphs, &c.	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1354		EPITAPHS:--ERPINGHAM. Some account of Charles, Earl of Erpingham	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
1355	Ferguson, editor	EPITAPHS:--ESSAYISTS (British)	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1356		ETUN:--Creasy's Memoirs of Etonians, with notices of the early history of Eton College		1850	USD -	Unknown
1357		ETUN:--EURIPIDES, Gr. et Lat. cum scholiis et notis, cura Musgravii	Oxon	1778	USD -	Unknown
1358		ETUN:--EURIPIDES	N. York	1834	USD -	Unknown
1359	Alison (Archibald)	EUROPE:--History of Europe, from the commencement of the French revolution, in 1789	Paris	1836	USD -	Unknown
1360	Baxter (W. E.)	EUROPE:--The Tagus and the Tiber	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
1361	Bell (R.)	EUROPE:--Way-side pictures through France, Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
1362	Brown (Dr. E.)	EUROPE:--Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Corinthia, Carmolia, &c.	London	1673	USD -	Unknown
1363	Coxe (W.)	EUROPE:--Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark	London	1784	USD -	Unknown
1364	Cushing (Caleb)	EUROPE:--Review of the late revolutions in Europe	Boston	1833	USD -	Unknown
1365	Eddy (D. C.)	EUROPE:--European scenes and society, in England, France, Italy, and Switzerland	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
1366	Gentz (F.)	EUROPE:--State of Europe before and after the French revolution	London	1802	USD -	Unknown
1367	Heeren (A. H. L.)	EUROPE:--History of the political systems of Europe and its colonies	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
1368		EUROPE:--Illustrated Record of important events in the annals of Europe from 1811 to 1816		1815	USD -	Unknown
1369		EUROPE:--Letters from Europe in 1828	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
1370		EUROPE:--Noah's travels in Europe	New York	1810	USD -	Unknown
1371	Prime (S. J.)	EUROPE:--Travels in Europe and the East	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
1372	Raffles (Thos.)	EUROPE:--Letters during a tour in Europe	London	1822	USD -	Unknown
1373		EUROPE:--Russell (W.) and Jones's history of modern Europe			USD -	Unknown
1374	Starke (Mariam)	EUROPE:--Travels in Europe, for the use of travellers on the continent, and an account of the remains of ancient Italy	Paris	1839	USD -	Unknown
1375	Stewart (R.)	EUROPE:--History of modern Europe	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
1376	Taylor (B.)	EUROPE:--Views on foot, or Europe seen with knapsack and staff	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
1377		EUROPE:--EVANS'Sparnassean garland			USD -	Unknown
1378	EVELYN'S (John)	EUROPE:--History of religion	London	1856	USD -	Unknown
1379		EUROPE:--EVENINGS at sea	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
1380		FABLES:--Clarke's inquiry into the cause and origin of evil	London	1720	USD -	Unknown
1380a		FABLES:--AESOP'S fables	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
1381	Bernard (Peter)	FABLES:--Examples of the ancient sages	London	1761	USD -	Unknown
1382		FABLES:--Fables et oeuvres diverses de J. La Fontaine	Paris	1846	USD -	Unknown
1383		FABLES:--Fables de La Fontaine	Paris	1813	USD -	Unknown
1384		FABLES:--Fontaine's Fables	Paris	1828	USD -	Unknown
1385	Duncombe, Gray, Mason, Whitehead, and Churchhill	FABLES:--Fables for gentlemen, or a fable for every day in the week, with other poems	London	1766	USD -	Unknown
1386	Dryden	FABLES:--Fables from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer	London	1735	USD -	Unknown
1387	Gay's (J.)	FABLES:--Gay's (J.) Fables	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
1388	Gay's (J.)	FABLES:--Gay's (J.) Fables	London	1745	USD -	Unknown
1389	Hyginus	FABLES:--Fabulorum liber		1535	USD -	Unknown
1390		FABLES:--Yriarte, Literary fables of	Boston	1855	USD -	Unknown
1391		FABLES:--Northcote's one hundred fables		1825	USD -	Unknown
1391a		FABLES:--Northcote's Fables, original and selected	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
1392		FABLES:--Phoedrifabulaeveteres, ex recensione F. H. Boethe. edente J. A. Amar	Paris	1821	USD -	Unknown
1393		FACETIAE:--Abelard and Heloise			USD -	Unknown
1394	Berington (Rev. J.)	FACETIAE:--History of the lives of Abelard and Heloise	Philadelphia	1819	USD -	Unknown
1395		FACETIAE:--Adventures of an atom, Sterne's journey, Fielding's Jonathan Wild, and Journey to the next world	London	1786	USD -	Unknown
1396		FACETIAE:--Adventures of Charles Villiers, an unfortunate court dependant	London	1716	USD -	Unknown
1397	Agrippa (H. C.)	FACETIAE:--Vanity of arts and sciences	London	1684	USD -	Unknown
1398		FACETIAE:--Alciphron's Epistles, in which are described the domestic manners of the courtezans and parasites of Greece	London	1791	USD -	Unknown
1399		FACETIAE:--Aleman's Spanish rogue, or life of Guzman d'Alfarache		1823	USD -	Unknown
1400	Amory's (John)	FACETIAE:--Life of John Buncle		1766	USD -	Unknown
1401		FACETIAE:--Amours (les) des dieux, de Cupidon et Psiche, du Soleil et Clytie, de Jupiter et Danae, de Jupiter et Io, de Jupiter et Celisto, etc.	Paris	1629	USD -	Unknown
1402		FACETIAE:--Anacreontiscarmina	Paris	1813	USD -	Unknown
1403		FACETIAE:--Anacreon, Gilpin's odes of			USD -	Unknown
1404	Moore (T.)	FACETIAE:--Odes of Anacreon	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
1405		FACETIAE:--Anecdotes of a convent	Dublin	1771	USD -	Unknown
1406		FACETIAE:--Annals of love; contains select histories of the amours of divers princes' courts, pleasantly related	London	1672	USD -	Unknown
1407		FACETIAE:--Antidote to the miseries of human life in the history of Widow Placid	London	1812	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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