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
1808		FINE ARTS--World of art and industry		1854	USD -	Unknown
1809		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Appleton's Cyclopaedia of drawing as a text-book for the mechanic, architect	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
1810		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Art of flower painting in water colors	Phila.	1835	USD -	Unknown
1812	Fielding (T. H.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--The knowledge and restoration of old paintings	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
1813		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Harding's Lessons on art			USD -	Unknown
1814		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Harding's Guide and companion to Lessons on art			USD -	Unknown
1815		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Lessons on trees			USD -	Unknown
1816		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Lectures on painting	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
1817	Merrifield (Mrs.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Original treatises on the arts of painting in oil, miniature, mosaic, on glass, gilding, &c.		1849	USD -	Unknown
1819		THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Oram's Precepts and observations on the art of coloring in landscape painting	Lond.	1810	USD -	Unknown
1820	Priestley (Joseph)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--History and present state of discoveries relating to vision, light, and colors	Lond.	1772	USD -	Unknown
1821	Pye (J.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Patronage of British art; an historical sketch, &c.	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
1822	Smith (J. B.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Lights and shadows of artist life and character	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
1823	Smith (B. S.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Manual of linear perspective	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
1824	Spooner (S.)	THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL:--Appeal to the people of the United States in behalf of art, artists, and the public weal	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
1825		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Albion Gallery, a selection of engravings	N.Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
1826		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Art Union prize annual	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1827	Ashley (A.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--The art of etching on copper plates	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1828	Brulliot (F.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Dictionnaire de monogrames, chiffres, lettres centrales et marques figurees, etc.	Munich	1817	USD -	Unknown
1829	Cabinet de M.	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Paignon Dijonval, etat detaille et raisonne des dessins et estampes dont il est compose		1810	USD -	Unknown
1830		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Calcographimania; or, the portrait collector and printseller's chronicle	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
1832		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Cunningham's Gallery of engravings			USD -	Unknown
1833		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Engravings. Byron's dream			USD -	Unknown
1834		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Engravings. Constable's rainbow			USD -	Unknown
1835		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Engravings. Momentous question			USD -	Unknown
1836		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Engravings. Prince George's favorite			USD -	Unknown
1837		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Gems of beauty, displayed in a series of 12 highly finished engravings of the passions	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
1838	Orme (Ed.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general	Lond.	1807	USD -	Unknown
1839	Ottley (W. Y.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--A collection of 129 fac-similes of scarce and curious prints by the early masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish schools	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
1840		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Salvator Bosa; a series of etchings			USD -	Unknown
1841	Buchanan (W.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Memoirs of painting, and history of the importation of pictures into England	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
1842		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Chamberlain's Engravings from the original designs of Annibale, Agostino, and Ludovico Caracci, in his majesty's collection, and engraved by Bartolozzi			USD -	Unknown
1844	Constable's (J.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Constable's (J.) Graphic works		1855	USD -	Unknown
1845	Elmes (J.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Arts and artists; or, anecdotes and relics of the schools of painting, sculpture, and architecture	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
1846		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Flaxman's Acts of mercy	Lond.	1831	USD -	Unknown
1847		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Flaxman's Compositions from Dante--hell, purgatory, and paradise			USD -	Unknown
1848	Forster (Ed.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--British gallery of engravings and pictures of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and English schools	Lond.	1807	USD -	Unknown
1849		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Galerie du Duc d'Orleans	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1850		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Galerie Pitti, gravee sur cuivre par les meilleurs artistes Italiens	Florence	1842	USD -	Unknown
1851		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Gallery of European art; a choice collection of 66 fine engravings			USD -	Unknown
1852		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Gems of European art; the best pictures of the best schools		1846	USD -	Unknown
1853	Haydon (Benj. R.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Haydon (Benj. R.), Taylor's life of	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
1854		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Hogarth's works...			USD -	Unknown
1856		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Hogarth's Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and explanatory descriptions of the plates	Lond.	1803	USD -	Unknown
1857		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Hogarth's His life and works	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
1858	Inskipp (Jas.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Studies of heads, a series of ten	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
1859		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Kugler, Schools of painting in Italy	Lond.	1821	USD -	Unknown
1860	Lester (C. E.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Artists of America; a series of biographical essays of American artists	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
1861		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Musee Francais...		1803-9	USD -	Unknown
1862		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--MUSEE ROYALE; CONTAINING UPWARDS OF THREE THOUSAND OF THE FINEST LINE ENGRAVINGS EVER EXECUTED			USD -	Unknown
1863		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Musee Napoleon; Galerie complet de la Musee central de France, par une societe d'amateurs et d'artistes, publiee par Filhol et Lavallee...		1804	USD -	Unknown
1864	Resta (Father)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Historical and chronological series of the most eminent painters, their age, masters, excellencies, and principal works	Lond.	1739	USD -	Unknown
1865	Reynolds' (Sir Joshua)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Reynolds' (Sir Joshua) Literary works	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
1866		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Discourses. Burnet's illustrated edition	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
1867		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Rio's Poetry of Christian art	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
1868	Romney (George)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Romney (George), Life of	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
1868a	Stanfield (Clarkson)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--A collection of the works of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1869	Stanley's (G.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Dutch and Flemish painters	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
1870		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Stothard, Memoirs of	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
1871	Summerly (F.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Handbook for the national gallery	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
1872	S. C. Hall, editor	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Vernon Gallery of British art		1850	USD -	Unknown
1873	West (Benj.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--A gallery of pictures painted by	Lond.	1811	USD -	Unknown
1874		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Wilkie Gallery (the)	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1875	Wornum (R. N.)	ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--History of painting, ancient and modern	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
1876		ENGRAVERS AND ENGRAVING:--Descriptive and historical catalogue of the pictures in the national gallery	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
1877	Balzac (H.)	ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Les Femmes de	Paris		USD -	Unknown
1878		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Beauties of the court and times of Queen Victoria			USD -	Unknown
1879	Mr. T. Gray	ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Bentley's (Rich.), Designs for six poems		1753	USD -	Unknown
1880	Bible (Holy)	ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Bowyer's fine edition	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
1881		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Book of Gems, or the poets and artists of Great Britain			USD -	Unknown
1882		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Cabinet of Genius; contains frontispieces and characters adapted to the most popular poems at large	Lond.	1787	USD -	Unknown
1883		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Dante, Alighieri, La divina commedia	Firenze	1817	USD -	Unknown
1884		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Darley's illustrations of Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow		1847	USD -	Unknown
1885		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Dusseldorf artists' album of fine lithographs		1853	USD -	Unknown
1886		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Engravings from the paintings of modern artists			USD -	Unknown
1887		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Finden's Beauties of Moore		1846	USD -	Unknown
1888		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Finden's Royal gallery of British art	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
1889		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Finden's Gallery of the Graces	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
1890		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Finden's Gallery of beauty, or court of Queen Victoria		1850	USD -	Unknown
1891		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Poets' gallery of beauty, a series of portraits of the principal female characters of the British poets	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
1892		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Floral souvenir, a series of twelve beautifully colored plates			USD -	Unknown
1893		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Flowers of loveliness		1852	USD -	Unknown
1894		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--France--La beautes de la France, vues des principales villes, monuments, chateaux, cathedrales, et sites pittoresques de la France	Paris	1853	USD -	Unknown
1895		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Gems of British art			USD -	Unknown
1896		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Holiday book of Christmas and the New Year, pictures, music, poetry, games, tales			USD -	Unknown
1897		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Holy Gospels			USD -	Unknown
1897a		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Ireland illustrated	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
1898		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Knight's Gallery of useful and fine arts		1850	USD -	Unknown
1899		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Lays of the western world	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
1900		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Maclises illustrated edition of Leonora; a ballad from the German of Burger			USD -	Unknown
1901		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Palmer & Crowquill, wanderings of a pen and pencil	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
1902		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Parables of our Lord	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1903		ILLUSTRATED WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS, SERIES OF PLATES, &c.:--Pearls of the East or beauties from Lalla Rookh			USD -	Unknown
1904		PORTRAITS:--Gallery of English and foreign portraits	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
1905		PORTRAITS:--Lodge's portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain		1840	USD -	Unknown
1906		LANDSCAPE SCENERY, SHIPPING, &C.:--Old England's worthies			USD -	Unknown
1907a		LANDSCAPE SCENERY, SHIPPING, &C.:--Bartlett's Canadian scenery			USD -	Unknown
1907		LANDSCAPE SCENERY, SHIPPING, &C.:--Bartlett's American scenery	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
1908		LANDSCAPE SCENERY, SHIPPING, &C.:--Baronial halls and picturesque edifices of England	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
1909		LANDSCAPE SCENERY, SHIPPING, &C.:--Cooke's shipping and craft	Lond.	1851	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.