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
2507	Trumbull (H.)	History of the Indian wars	Bost.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2508	Worsley's (T.)	View of the American Indians, their character, customs, language, festivals, religious rites, and traditions	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
2509		INFLUENCE of the Evil Genius	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2510		Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca, being the substance of his examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna	Philad.	1799	USD -	Unknown
2511		INQUISITION:--Le Maistre on the Spanish Inquisition	Bost.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2512	Van Halen (D. J.)	INQUISITION:--Narrative of his imprisonment by the Inquisition at Madrid, journey to Russia, &c.	N. Y.	1838	USD -	Unknown
2513		INSANITY:--Broussais on irritation and insanity	Columbia, S. C.	1831	USD -	Unknown
2514	Burnett (C. M.)	Insanity tested by science	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2515	Conolly (Dr. J.)	INSANITY:--Inquiry concerning the indications of insanity	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2516	Grimes (G., a lunatic)	INSANITY:--Treatise on insanity	Nashville	1846	USD -	Unknown
2517	Spurzheim (Dr. J. G.)	INSANITY:--On insanity	Bost.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2518	Stansbury (G. A.)	INTEREST:--Tables of interest at 7 per cent	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2519		INVENTIONS:--New history of inventions	Dub.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2520	Williams (J. F. Lake)	INVENTIONS:--History of inventions and discoveries	Lond.	1820	USD -	Unknown
2522	Barrington (Sir Jonah)	IRELAND:--Historic memoirs of Ireland	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2523	Barrington (Sir Jonah)	IRELAND:--Rise and fall of the Irish nation	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2524	Castlereagh (Viscount)	IRELAND:--Castlereagh (Viscount), Memoirs and correspondence of	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2525		IRELAND:--Curran (J. P.), Life of	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2526		IRELAND:--Essays on the repeal of the union	Dub.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2526a		IRELAND:--Grattan, Adventures of the Connaught Rangers from 1808 to 1814	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
2527	Hays (E.)	IRELAND:--History of the insurrection of the county of Wexford	Dub.	1803	USD -	Unknown
2528		IRELAND:--Ireland as a kingdom and a colony	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2529		IRELAND:--Ireland, A collection of tracts relating to		1782	USD -	Unknown
2530		IRELAND:--Irish pursuits of literature	Dub.	1799	USD -	Unknown
2531		IRELAND:--Leland, History of Ireland from the invasion of Henry VII	Lond.	1773	USD -	Unknown
2532		IRELAND:--Lover's Legends and stories of Ireland	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2533		IRELAND:--Macgeoghegan (Abbe), History of Ireland	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
2534	Mcgee (Thos.)	IRELAND:--O'Connell and his times	Bost.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2535	Moore (Thos.)	IRELAND:--Life and death of Lord Ed. Fitzgerald	N. Y.	1831	USD -	Unknown
2536		IRELAND:--Madden, Connection between the kingdom of Ireland and the crown of England	Dub.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2537		IRELAND:--Maxwell, History of the Irish rebellion of 1798		1852	USD -	Unknown
2538		IRELAND:--Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland, and one of the judges of Charles I., with portrait	Switzerland	1698	USD -	Unknown
2539	O'Connell (John)	IRELAND:--Recollections and experiences during a parliamentary career, with sketches of eminent politicians	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2540		IRELAND:--O'Connell, Trial of, and other Irish state trials			USD -	Unknown
2541	Thomas Carte	IRELAND:--Ormonde (Duke of), Life of, and account of the most remarkable affairs of his time, particularly of Ireland under his government	Oxford	1851	USD -	Unknown
2542		IRELAND:--Pamphlets, principally on Ireland, &c.	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
2543		IRELAND:--Report on the public works of Ireland, with maps and plans		1833	USD -	Unknown
2544		IRELAND:--Rogers, Appeal for the Irish peasantry	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
2545	Skinner (Thomas)	IRELAND:--Life of General Monk, late Duke of Albemarle	Lond.	1723	USD -	Unknown
2546	Stafford (Thos.)	IRELAND:--Pacata Hibernia: Ireland appeased and reduced, or a history of the wars of Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth	Lond.	1821	USD -	Unknown
2547	Tone (W. T. Wolfe)	IRELAND:--Tone (W. T. Wolfe), Memoirs of		1837	USD -	Unknown
2548	IRVING (W.)	IRELAND:--IRVING (W.), Works of	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2549		IRELAND:--Bracebridge Hall	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2550		IRELAND:--IRYING vignettes, comprising 28 plates on steel, with a sketch of his life and works	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2551	Edward Copping	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Alfieri and Goldoni, their lives and adventures	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2552		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Ariosto, Orlando Furioso	Avignon	1816	USD -	Unknown
2553	Beaumont (Albanis)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Travels from France to Italy; the Lepontine Alps, or an itinerary of the road from Lyons to Turin	Lond.	1800	USD -	Unknown
2554		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Dante, Le divina commedia	Panji	1844	USD -	Unknown
2555		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Dante's lyrical poems, including the poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2556	Dennistoun's (J.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630	Longmans	1851	USD -	Unknown
2557		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Dictionnaire Italien et Francaise	Paris and Leone	1813	USD -	Unknown
2558		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Guarino, Faithful shepherd	Lond.	1633	USD -	Unknown
2559		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Guicciardini's Historie of the warres of Italie		1599	USD -	Unknown
2560	Headley (J. T.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Letters from Italy	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2561		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--History of the campaigns in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, and 1799, in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland	Lond.	1812	USD -	Unknown
2562		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Italy in its original glory	Lond.	1660	USD -	Unknown
2563		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Lorenzi Benoni, or passages in the life of an Italian	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2564	Maceroni (Col.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Maceroni (Col.), Memoirs of the life and adventures of	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
2565	Mariotti (L.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Historical memoir of Fra Dolcino and his times	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2566	Medan (F.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--History of the rise and fall of Masaniello	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2567		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Memoirs of General Pepe, comprising the principal military and political events of modern Italy	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2568		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Metastasio Opere scelte	Parizi	1840	USD -	Unknown
2569	Morgan (Lady)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Italy	Lond.	1821	USD -	Unknown
2570	Napier (Col.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Ftorentine history, from the earliest records to the accession of Ferdinand III	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
2571		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Ollendorf's Italian grammar	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2572		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Petrarca Rime	Mil.	1826	USD -	Unknown
2573		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Proctor's history of Italy, from the fall of the Western Empire to the wars of the French revolution	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2574	Roscoe (W.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Life and Pontificate of Leo X		1846	USD -	Unknown
2575		ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Roscoe, Tourist in Italy			USD -	Unknown
2576	Trollope (Mrs.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Visit to Italy	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
2577	Tasso (Torq.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--La Gerusalemme liberata	Pange	1840	USD -	Unknown
2578	Tasso (Torq.)	ITALY AND ITALIAN' LITERATURE:--Tasso (Torq.) Translated by Fairfax	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2579	Barruel (Abbe)	JACOBITES:--Memoirs illustrating the history of Jacobinism	Lond.	1798	USD -	Unknown
2580	Thompson (Mrs.)	JACOBITES:--Memoirs of the Jacobites in 1715 and 1745	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2581	JACKSON (Gen. A.)	JACOBITES:--JACKSON (Gen. A.), Memoirs of		1845	USD -	Unknown
2582	J. H. Eaton	JACOBITES:--Thompson (Mrs.), Life of, and history of the war in the South	Phila.	1824	USD -	Unknown
2584		JAMAICA:--Marley, or the life of a Jamaica planter	Glasg.	1828	USD -	Unknown
2585	Beckford (Wm.)	JAMAICA:--Descriptive account of the Island of Jamaica	Lond.	1790	USD -	Unknown
2586		JAMAICA:--Long's history of Jamaica, or general survey of the ancient and modern state of that island, its situation, settlements, inhabitants, climate, products, commerce, laws, and government		1774	USD -	Unknown
2587	JAMES (G. P. R.)	JAMAICA:--Adnar, or the clouds of the mind	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2588	JAMES (G. P. R.)	JAMAICA:--Ticonderoga	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2589	JAMES (G. P. R.)	JAMAICA:--Novels, various	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2590	JAMES (G. P. R.)	JAMAICA:--Dark scenes of history	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2591	JAMESON (Mrs.)	JAMAICA:--JAMESON (Mrs.). Memoirs and essays	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
2592	JAMES (W.)	JAMAICA:--History of the naval occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and America	Lond.	1817	USD -	Unknown
2593	Golownin (Capt.)	JAPAN:--Japan and the Japanese, a narrative of three years' residence in Japan, and an account of the British commerce and intercourse, &c.		1824	USD -	Unknown
2594a		JAPAN:--Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to China and Japan, in the years 1852, '53, '54, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States navy	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2594	Kaempfer (E.)	JAPAN:--The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state of the government of that empire, of its temples, palaces, castles, and other buildings; of its minerals, trees, animals, birds, etc.; its chronology, religion, manners, etc	Lond.	1727	USD -	Unknown
2595		JAPAN:--Titsingh's illustrations of Japan, consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of Japan	Lond.	1822	USD -	Unknown
2596	Siebold (Ph. P.)	JAPAN:--Manners and customs of the Japanese	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2597		JAPAN:--JASPER (Lyle)	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2598		JAPAN:--JAUFRY, the knight and the fair Brunissende, a tale of the times of King Arthur		1856	USD -	Unknown
2599	Raffles (Sir. T.)	JAVA:--Memoirs of the life and public services of, particularly in the Government of Java, 1811-16, and of Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-24	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
2600	Thorn (W.)	JAVA:--Memoir of the conquest of Java	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
2601	JAY'S (William)	JAVA:--Life of John Jay, with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
2602	JEAFFERSON (J. E.)	JAVA:--Isabel, the young wife and the old love	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
2603	JEFFERSON (Thos.)	JAVA:--JEFFERSON (Thos.), Memoirs, correspondence, and private papers of	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2604	G. Tucker	JAVA:--JEFFERSON (Thos.), Life of	Phila.	1837	USD -	Unknown
2605	G. Tucker	JAVA:--Warning to, on Presbyterianism, by J. E. Moore	Phila.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2606	W. Woolrych.	JAVA:--JEFFREYS (Judge), Memoirs of the life of	Lond.	1827	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.