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
2706	LARDNER (Dr.)	LANDSCAPE GARDENING:--Lectures on science and art, delivered in the principal cities and towns of the United States	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2707	Morell	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Ainsworth's Dictionary	Philad.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2708	Alvari (E.)	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Latinae grammatics	Antwerp.	1665	USD -	Unknown
2709		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Andrews and Stoddart's Latin grammar	Bost.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2710		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Arnold's First and second Latin book, &c.	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2711		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Brownlow's Latine redidivus	Lond.	1693	USD -	Unknown
2712	Fabri (Basilie)	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Thesaurus eruditionis scholastics, post Buchneri, Cellarii, Gracerii, &c., cura M. Gesnero	Lipsic	1726	USD -	Unknown
2713		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Facciolati, Universal Latin Lexicon of Facciolatus and Forcellinus		1828	USD -	Unknown
2714		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Gardner's Latin dictionary	Bost.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2715		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Leverett's Latin tutor	Bost.	1842	USD -	Unknown
2716		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Muszurg and Zumpt's Latin and German grammar	Berlin	1854	USD -	Unknown
2717	Riddle's (Rev. J. E.)	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Copious and critical Latin-English lexicon, founded on the German-Latin dictionaries of Dr. William Freund	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
2718	Scheller's (J. J. G.)	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Latin grammar	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
2719	Stepham (R.)	LATIN LANGUAGE:--Thesaurus lingue Latine	Basilea	1740	USD -	Unknown
2720		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Valpy's Analecta Latina majora	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2721		LATIN LANGUAGE:--Zumpt's Latin grammar	N. Y.	1831	USD -	Unknown
2722		LATIUM--A description of Latium, or La Campagna di Roma		1805	USD -	Unknown
2723		LAW:--Beawes, Lex Mercatoria rediviva, or The merchant's directory	Dub.	1754	USD -	Unknown
2724	Blackstone's (Sir W.)	LAW:--Commentaries on the laws of England	Oxford	1765	USD -	Unknown
2725		LAW:--Conductor Generalis, or the office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace	N. Y.	1749	USD -	Unknown
2726		LAW:--Crokes (A.), Answer to Schlegel's work upon the visitation of neutral vessels under convoy	Lond.	1810	USD -	Unknown
2727		LAW:--Catechism of American law	Philad.	1839	USD -	Unknown
2728	Mackintosh (Sir Jas.)	LAW:--On the study of the law of nations, &c.	Bost.	1843	USD -	Unknown
2729		LAW:--Montesquieu's Spirit of laws	Lond.	1758	USD -	Unknown
2730		LAW:--Commentary and review of Montesquieu's Spirit of the laws	Philad.	1811	USD -	Unknown
2731		LAW:--Lord St. Leonard's Handy book of real property	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
2732		LAW:--Reports of Sir E. Coke, Kt., in verse; the name of each case and the principal points are contained in two lines	Lond.	1742	USD -	Unknown
2733	LAWSON (John)	LAW:--New voyage to Carolina	Lond.	1709	USD -	Unknown
2734	LE SAGE	LAW:--Asmodeus, or the Devil on two sticks	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2735		LAW:--Devil upon two sticks	Bost.	1827	USD -	Unknown
2736	LEDYARD (Jno.)	LAW:--Travels and adventures, comprising his voyage with Capt. Cook's third and last expedition		1831	USD -	Unknown
2737	LEE (Gen.)	LAW:--LEE (Gen.), Life and memoirs of	N. Y.	1813	USD -	Unknown
2738		LAW:--LEGENDS and traditionary stories	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2739	LEE (R. H.)	LAW:--Life of Dr. Arthur Lee	Bost.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2740	LEGARE (H. S.)	LAW:--LEGARE (H. S.), Life and writings of	Charleston	1846	USD -	Unknown
2741	LEGGETT (W.)	LAW:--LEGGETT (W.), Political writings of	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2743	LESTER (C. E.)	LAW:--Artist, merchant, and statesman	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2744	LESTER (C. E.)	LAW:--Glory and shame of England	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2745	LESTER (C. E.)	LAW:--Condition and fate of England	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
2746		LAW:--LETTERS of the late Lord Lyttleton, only son of George, Lord Lyttleton	N. Y.	1807	USD -	Unknown
2747		LAW:--LETTRES Inedites de Marc Aurele et de Fronton	Par.	1830	USD -	Unknown
2748	Tournefort (M.)	LEVANT:--Voyage into the Levant, &c.	Lond.	1741	USD -	Unknown
2749	Turner (Wm.)	LEVANT:--Journal of a tour in the Levant	Lond.	1820	USD -	Unknown
2750	LEVER (C.)	LEVANT:--Confessions of Harry Lorrequer	Dub.	1839	USD -	Unknown
2751	LEVER (C.)	LEVANT:--LEVER (C.), Works of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2752	LEVER (C.)	LEVANT:--Roland Cashel, Daltons, and Dodd family			USD -	Unknown
2753	LEVER (C.)	LEVANT:--Con Cregan, &c.		1850	USD -	Unknown
2754	LEVER (C.)	LEVANT:--Tom Burke	Phila.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2757		LEVANT:--LETTERS of royal and illustrious ladies of Great Britain, from the twelfth century		1846	USD -	Unknown
2758		LEVANT:--LEWIS Arundel and other novels			USD -	Unknown
2759	LEVIGNE (Capt.)	LEVANT:--Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of Transatlantic life	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2760	LEWIS (Merewether)	LEVANT:--Travels of Captains Lewis and Clarke from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, from the original communications	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
2761		LIBERTY:--Collection of letters and essays in favor of public liberty	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
2762		LIBERTY:--Eliot's History of liberty. Part I. The ancient Romans; part II. The early Christians	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2763		LIBERTY:--Jackson's Defence of human liberty		1730	USD -	Unknown
2764		LIBERTY:--Price (Dr.), Additional observations on the nature and value of civil liberty and the war with America	Dub.	1777	USD -	Unknown
2765		LIBERTY:--Warner (H. W.), On the liberties of America	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2766	Wortman's (T.)	LIBERTY:--Treatise concerning a political inquiry and the liberty of the press	N. Y.	1800	USD -	Unknown
2767		LIBERTY:--LIBRARY of useful knowledge; a series of the literary and scientific publications of this distinguished literary association	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2768		LIBERTY:--LIGHTNING Conductors (Harris's), Parliamentary report on, with plates	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2769	LINN (J. B.)	LIBERTY:--Valerian; a narrative poem	Phila.	1805	USD -	Unknown
2770	LIPPARD (G.)	LIBERTY:--New York; its upper ten and lower million	Cincin.	1854	USD -	Unknown
2771		LIBERTY:--LITTELL'S Living age			USD -	Unknown
2772	LLOYD (E.)	LIBERTY:--Entertaining journal	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2773	Beastall (Wm.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--Useful guide to grocers, distillers, hotel keepers, and for making all kinds of liquors, &c.	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2774	French (Dr. J.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--The art of distillation and of making all sorts of liquors, &c.	Lond.	1657	USD -	Unknown
2775	Mcmullen (Thos.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--Handbook of wines	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2776	Redding (C.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--History and description of modern wines	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2777	Root (J.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--Horrors of delirium tremens	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
2778	Sutton (T.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and the gout	Lond.	1813	USD -	Unknown
2779	LISTERS (T. H.)	LIQUORS, &C.:--Life and administration of Edward, first earl of Clarendon		1838	USD -	Unknown
2780		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Athenaeum journal of literature, science, and the fine arts, for the years 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849			USD -	Unknown
2781	Beloe (W.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Sexagenarian, or the recollections of a literary life		1818	USD -	Unknown
2782		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Beloe's Anecdotes of literature and scarce books	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
2783	Berington (Bev. J.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Literary history of the middle ages, comprehending an account of the state of learning from the close of the reign of Augustus to its revival in the fifteenth century	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
2784		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Bouterwek's history of Spanish literature	Bogue	1847	USD -	Unknown
2785	Burnet (George)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Specimens of English prose writers from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches, biographical and literary	Lond.	1807	USD -	Unknown
2786		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Chamber's Cyclopedia of English literature	Bost.	1856	USD -	Unknown
2787	Cleveland (C. D.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Compendium of English literature from Sir J. Mandeville to William Cowper	Phila.	1847	USD -	Unknown
2788		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Coleridge, Biographia literaria; contains his literary life and opinions	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
2789		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--D'Israeli, Curiosities of literature. 1st and 2d series	Lond.	1807	USD -	Unknown
2790		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--D'Israeli, Curiosities of literature	Lond.	1791	USD -	Unknown
2791		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Miscellanies of literature	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
2792	Dunlop (John)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--History of fiction	Phila.	1842	USD -	Unknown
2793		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Duyckinck's Cyclopaedia of American literature	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2794	Evelyn's (C.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Table talk on books, men, and manners, From Sydney Smith and others	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
2795		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Exposition of the false mediums and barriers excluding men of genius from the public	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
2796		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Ferriar's illustrations of Sterne		1812	USD -	Unknown
2797		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Foster, Handbook of modern European literature	Phila.	1850	USD -	Unknown
2798	Gilfillan (G.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Modern literature and literary men	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
2799	Gray's (W.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Historical sketch of the origin of English prose literature, and of its progress till the reign of James I			USD -	Unknown
2800	Guild (R. A.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Librarian's manual; a treatise on bibliography	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
2801	Hutton (W., of Birmingham)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Hutton (W., of Birmingham), Life of	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
2802		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Kirk & Astie, Louis XIV. and the writers of his age	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
2803	Knapp (S. L.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Lectures on American literature	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
2804		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Knight's life of Caxton, the first English printer			USD -	Unknown
2805		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--La Sferza de Scrittori antichi et moderni, di m anonimo di vtopia	Vinegia	1550	USD -	Unknown
2806		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Mirror (The) of literature, amusement, and instruction	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
2807	Matthias (T. J.)	LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Pursuits of literature; a satirical poem, in four dialogues, with notes	Dub.	1798	USD -	Unknown
2808		LITERATURE, ITS HISTORY, &c.:--Milledulcia: a thousand pleasant things	N. Y.	1857	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.
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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
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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
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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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