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
3397	Campbell (John)	NEGRO:--Negromancy. Being an examination of the falsely assumed equality of men	Phila.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3398	Horsmanden (D.)	NEGRO:--History of the negro plot in New York 1741-42	N. Y.	1810	USD -	Unknown
3399	Nelson (Lord)	NELSON:--Letters and dispatches		1845	USD -	Unknown
3400		NELSON:--Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Admirable Lord Nelson. From his lordship's manuscripts		1809	USD -	Unknown
3401		NELSON:--Parson's Nelsonian Reminiscences	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3401a		NELSON:--NELL GWYNNE and other tales			USD -	Unknown
3402	NETTLETON (A.)	NELSON:--Village hymns	N. Y.	1828	USD -	Unknown
3403		NEW ENGLAND:--Hubbard's New England...	Lond.	1677	USD -	Unknown
3404	Mather's (Cotton)	NEW ENGLAND:--Magnalia Christi Americana, or the ecclesiastical history of New England	Hartford		USD -	Unknown
3405	Smith (J. Toulmin)	NEW ENGLAND:--Northmen in New England, or America in the tenth century		1839	USD -	Unknown
3406	Wise (J.)	NEW ENGLAND:--Vindication of the government of New England churches	Bost.	1772	USD -	Unknown
3407	NEWFOUNDLAND, Jukes (J. B.)	NEW ENGLAND:--Excursions in	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3408		NEW GRANADA and Costa Rica. The boundary question	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
3409	Whiton (J. M.)	NEW HAMPSHIRE:--History of New Hampshire from its settlement in 1623 to 1833	Concord	1834	USD -	Unknown
3410	Willery (B. G.)	NEW HAMPSHIRE:--Incidents in White Mountain history	Bost.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3411		NEW JERSEY:--Historical Society collections		1847	USD -	Unknown
3412	Gordon (T. A.)	NEW JERSEY:--History of New Jersey	Trenton	1836	USD -	Unknown
3413		NEW JERSEY:--LAWS OF NEW JERSEY. Acts of the general assembly of the province of New Jersey, from the surrender of the government to 1752	Tren.	1784	USD -	Unknown
3414	Mulford (Isaac S. M. D.)	NEW JERSEY:--A civil and political history of New Jersey, from its early discovery, &c.	Phila.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3415		NEW JERSEY:--Southard's Arguments in the case of Stacey Decow and Joseph Hendrickson vs. Thos. L. Shotwell	Phila.	1834	USD -	Unknown
3416		NEW JERSEY:--NEW MEXICO and Texas, Reconnoissances in		1850	USD -	Unknown
3417		NEW JERSEY:--NEWSPAPERS, Various			USD -	Unknown
3418	Barber (J. W.)	NEW YORK:--Historical collection of the State of New York	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3419	Beardsley (Levi)	NEW YORK:--Reminiscences relative to the early settlement of Otsego County, &c. &c.	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3420		NEW YORK:--Belden's New York	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3421	Child (L. M.)	NEW YORK:--Letters from New York	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
3422	Eastman (F. S.)	NEW YORK:--History of the State of New York	N. Y.	1828	USD -	Unknown
3423	Francis (Dr.)	NEW YORK:--New York during the last half century	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3424	Hardie (J.)	NEW YORK:--Account of the yellow fever in New York in 1822	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
3425		NEW YORK:--Harper's New York and Erie Railroad guide	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
3426		NEW YORK:--Hooker's Plan of New York	N. Y.	1823	USD -	Unknown
3427	Hotchkin (T. H.)	NEW YORK:--History of the purchase and settlement of Western New York	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3428		NEW YORK:--Irving's Knickerbocker's New York illustrated	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3429	Macauley's (James)	NEW YORK:--History of the State of New York, natural, statistic, and. civil	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
3430		NEW YORK:--Manual for the legislature of New York	Albany	1850	USD -	Unknown
3431	Miller (Rev. J.)	NEW YORK:--Description of the province and city of New York previous to 1695	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3432		NEW YORK:--Municipal Gazetteer	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3433		NEW YORK:--New York Bank reports, &c.		1838	USD -	Unknown
3434	Dr. Horsmanden	NEW YORK:--Conspiracy. A history of the negro plot	N. Y.	1810	USD -	Unknown
3435		NEW YORK:--Corporation forms	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3436		NEW YORK:--Crystal Palace illustrated; or, the world of science, art, and industry	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
3437		NEW YORK:--Crystal Palace Mirror	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
3438	O'Callaghan (E. B.)	NEW YORK:--History of New Netherlands; or, New York under the Dutch	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
3439		NEW YORK:--Perils of Pearl street	N. Y.	1834	USD -	Unknown
3440	Reese (D. M.)	NEW YORK:--Humbugs of New York	Bost.	1833	USD -	Unknown
3441		NEW YORK:--Sketch of the resources of the city of New York	N. Y.	1827	USD -	Unknown
3442	Smith (Wm.)	NEW YORK:--The history of the province of New York from the first discovery	Lond.	1757	USD -	Unknown
3443	Smith (Wm.)	NEW YORK:--History of the province of New York	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
3444		NEW YORK:--Speeches of the governors of New York, from Clinton to the present time	Albany	1823	USD -	Unknown
3444		NEW YORK:--New York, The Natural history of the State of with a profusion of plates	Albany	1842	USD -	Unknown
3445	Valentine (D. T.)	NEW YORK:--History of the city of New York	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3446	Valentine (D. T.)	NEW YORK:--Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for 1850	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3447		NEW YORK:--Vision of Rubeta, an epic story of the island of Manhattan	Bost.	1830	USD -	Unknown
3448		NEW YORK:--Wilson's Guide to the Hudson River	N. Y.	1800	USD -	Unknown
3449		NIAGARA:--Hunter's Panoramic guide to Niagara Falls and the St. Lawrence River	Bost.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3450	Squier (E. G.)	NIAGARA:--Nicaragua, its people, scenery, and monuments	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3451	NICHOLS (Dr.)	NIAGARA:--Cyclopedia of the physical sciences, &c.	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3452	NICHOLLS (J.)	NIAGARA:--Recollections and reflections on public affairs	Philad.	1827	USD -	Unknown
3452a	Lieber (F.)	NIAGARA:--Reminiscences of an intercourse with Mr. Niebuhr, the historian	Philad.	1835	USD -	Unknown
3453		NIAGARA:--NILES'S Weekly Register	Balt.	1816	USD -	Unknown
3454		NINEVEH:--Glimpses of Nineveh B. C. 690	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3455	Vaux (W. S.)	NINEVEH:--Nineveh and Persepolis, an historical sketch of ancient Assyria and Persia	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3456	NOAH (M. M.)	NINEVEH:--Gleanings from a gathered harvest	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3457		NINEVEH:--NOBLEMAN and his steward, or manners of the Albany family	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3458	NOLTE (V.)	NINEVEH:--Fifty years in both hemispheres	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3459	NORDHOFF (C.)	NINEVEH:--Nine years of a sailor in the United States naval service, &c.	Cincin.	1857	USD -	Unknown
3460		NINEVEH:--NORMAN Leslie	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3461	Andree (Dr. Karl)	NORTH AMERICA:--Nord Amerika, in Geographischen		1851	USD -	Unknown
3462	Carver (J.)	NORTH AMERICA:--Travels through the interior parts of North America in 1766-68	Philad.	1784	USD -	Unknown
3463	Collot (Victor)	NORTH AMERICA:--Journey in North America	Par.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3464	Latrobe (C. J.)	NORTH AMERICA:--Rambles in North America	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3465		NORTH AMERICA:--Lyell's Travels in North America in 1841-42	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3466	Murray (C. A.)	NORTH AMERICA:--Travels in North America	N. Y.	1839	USD -	Unknown
3467		NORTH AMERICA:--North American scenery		1850	USD -	Unknown
3468	Snowden (R.)	NORTH AMERICA:--History of North and South America from its discovery to the death of General Washington	Philad.	1818	USD -	Unknown
3469	Weld (Isaac)	NORTH AMERICA:--Travels through the States of North America and Canada in 1795-97	Lond.	1799	USD -	Unknown
3470	Jones (J. S.)	NORTH CAROLINA:--Defence of the revolutionary history of North Carolina	Bost.	1834	USD -	Unknown
3471	Williamson (D. H.)	NORTH CAROLINA:--History of North Carolina	Philad.	1812	USD -	Unknown
3472	NOORTHOUCK (J.)	Historical and classical dictionary	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
3473	Bradford (W. J. A.)	NORTHWEST:--Notes on the Northwest and the valley of the Mississippi	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
3477	Burnet (Jacob)	NORTHWEST:--Notes on the Northwest Territory	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3478	NORTON (Mrs. C. E.)	NORTHWEST:--Dream, and other poems	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3479	M. Martin	NORTHWEST:--History of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, &c. &c.	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
3480		NORTHWEST:--NOVUM Testamentum Graecum	Glasguae	1832	USD -	Unknown
3481	Gerard Van Loon	NUMISMATICS:--Histoire metallique des XVII provinces des Pays Bas	La Haye	1732	USD -	Unknown
3482		NUMISMATICS:--NUTS for future historians to crack	Philad.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3483	Junkin (D. X.)	OATHS:--On the oath	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3485	Godwin (Wm.)	OCCULT:--Lives of the necromancers	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3486		OCCULT:--Intellectual electricity, novum organum of vision, and grand mystic secret	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3487	Ramsbotham (F. H.)	OBSTETRICS:--Principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition, &c.	Philad.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3487a	OGILBY (John)	OBSTETRICS:--America, being the latest and most accurate description of the new world	Lond.	1671	USD -	Unknown
3488	Cumming (F.)	OHIO:--Sketches of a tour to the western country, a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, &c.	Pittsb.	1810	USD -	Unknown
3489	Finley (Rev.)	OHIO:--History of the Wyandot mission at Upper Sandusky	Cincin.	1840	USD -	Unknown
3489a		OHIO:--Historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
3490		OHIO:--Ohio Coon-Catcher	Columbus	1844	USD -	Unknown
3491	Horace Walpole	OHIO:--OLD English Baron, and Castle of Otranto	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3492	OLDHAM (J.)	OHIO:--OLDHAM (J.), Poetical works of	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
3493	Jones (Dr.)	OPIUM:--Mysteries of opium	Lond.	1700	USD -	Unknown
3494	Brewster's (Sir D.)	OPTICS:--Treatise on optics	Philad.	1835	USD -	Unknown
3495	Potter's (R.)	OPTICS:--Elementary treatise on optics	Lond.	1847	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.