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
3496	Cox (Ross)	OREGON:--Adventures on the Columbia during a residence on the Rocky Mountains		1832	USD -	Unknown
3497	Farnham (T. J.)	OREGON:--Travels in the Great Western Prairies, Rocky Mountains, &c.	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3498		OREGON:--Fremont's Exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and California	Wash.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3499		OREGON:--Fremont and Emory's California	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
3500	Greenhow (R.)	OREGON:--History of Oregon and California	Bost.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3501		OREGON:--Lee and Frost's Ten years in Oregon	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
3502		OREGON:--ORIENTAL tales: Sadi's Gulistan, or flower garden of Shaikh Sadi Shiraz		1846	USD -	Unknown
3503	Ritchie's (Leitch)	ORIENTAL NATIONS:--History of Oriental Nations, chiefly possessions of Great Britain, comprising India, China, Australia, South Africa, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3504		ORIENTAL NATIONS:--Gumilla. Histoire, naturelle, civile et geographique, de l'Orinoque	Avignon	1758	USD -	Unknown
3505		ORIENTAL NATIONS:--OSSIAN'S Poems	Birmingham	1817	USD -	Unknown
3506		ORIENTAL NATIONS:--OSSIAN'S Poems	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
3507	OVID	ORIENTAL NATIONS:--Metamorphoses	Lond.	1707	USD -	Unknown
3508	OVID	ORIENTAL NATIONS:--Metamorphoses		1812	USD -	Unknown
3509	OVID	ORIENTAL NATIONS:--Metamorphoses	Lond.	1625	USD -	Unknown
3510		ORIENTAL NATIONS:--OWEN'S Spirit of the Holly	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3511	Chalmers (Alex.)	OXFORD:--History of the colleges, halls, and public buildings attached to the University of Oxford	Oxford	1810	USD -	Unknown
3512		OXFORD:--Oxford delineated, or a sketch of the history and antiquities, and a general topographical description, of that celebrated university and city	Oxford	1831	USD -	Unknown
3513		OXFORD:--Oxford (The) Tables of universal history	Oxford	1839	USD -	Unknown
3514		OXFORD:--Skelton's Pietas Oxoniensis, or records of Oxford founders	Oxford	1821	USD -	Unknown
3515		PACIFIC OCEAN:--Ballantyne's Coral Island, a tale of the Pacific Ocean	Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown
3516	Erskine (J. E.)	PACIFIC OCEAN:--Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3517	Porter (Capt. D.)	PACIFIC OCEAN:--Journal of a cruise made to the Pacific Ocean, in the United States frigate Essex, in 1812-14	N. Y.	1822	USD -	Unknown
3518	Walpole (Lieut. F.)	PACIFIC OCEAN:--Four years in the Pacific, in her majesty's ship Collingwood	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
3519	Heap (G. H.)	PACIFIC RAILROAD:--Central route to the Pacific, from the valley of the Mississippi to California	Philad.	1854	USD -	Unknown
3520		PACIFIC RAILROAD:--REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICAL AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN	Wash.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3521	Paine's (Thomas)	PAINE:--Crisis and Age of reason	Philad.	1854	USD -	Unknown
3522	Paine's (Thomas)	PAINE:--Rights of man, being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution	Lond.	1791	USD -	Unknown
3523	Cheetham (Jas.)	PAINE:--Life of Thomas Paine	N. Y.	1809	USD -	Unknown
3524	PALEY (William, D. D.)	PAINE:--PALEY (William, D. D.), Works of	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
3525		PAINE:--PALEY, Natural theology	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
3526	PALISSOT (Charles)	PAINE:--OEuvres de	Liege	1777	USD -	Unknown
3527	PALMER'S (R.)	PAINE:--Closet hours, or aids to spiritual improvement	Albany	1851	USD -	Unknown
3528		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Gallatin on free trade, Battle of poachers, Education Topsy-turvy, or anecdotes of leading French characters, Narratives, &c.	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3529		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--On slavery, intemperance, poetry, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3530		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--On savings banks, poor law, &c.	Edinb.	1815	USD -	Unknown
3531		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Speeches by Daniel Webster, Everett, Story, &c. &c.			USD -	Unknown
3532		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Various, including Trial of Tom Paine, &c.	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3533		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Political and other tracts	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3534		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Various, a large collection			USD -	Unknown
3535		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Select tracts published by the Peace Society	Lond.	1835	USD -	Unknown
3536		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--On Indians, slavery in America, &c, &c.	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3537		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--The Committee of Secrecy, Official correspondence on peace, Harper's Observations on the dispute with France, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3538		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--A collection of; principally on East India	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3539		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--American, including addresses, trials, &c. &c.		1832	USD -	Unknown
3540		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Miscellaneous pamphlets, various			USD -	Unknown
3541		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--A remarkable collection of 14 in 1 vol.	Lond.	1791	USD -	Unknown
3542		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--A volume of	Lond.	1782	USD -	Unknown
3543		PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--A volume of	Lond.	1738	USD -	Unknown
3544	Mackintosh (James)	PAMPHLETS, IN VOLUMES:--Defence of the French revolution		1791	USD -	Unknown
3545	Griswold (C. D.)	PANAMA:--Isthmus of Panama	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3546	Barrow (Isaac)	PAPACY:--Supremacy of the Pope	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3547		PAPACY:--DeCormenin's History of the Popes, from St. Peter to Pius the Ninth	Phila.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3548	Milner (Rev. J.)	PAPACY:--Letters to a prebendary	Derby	1843	USD -	Unknown
3549		PAPACY:--Papal usurpation and persecution in ancient and modern times with respect to both princes and people	Lond.	1712	USD -	Unknown
3550		PAPACY:--Phillips's History of the life of Cardinal Pole	Oxford	1764	USD -	Unknown
3551	Riddle's (Rev. J. E.)	PAPACY:--History of papacy to the period of the reformation	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3552	Shoberl (Fred.)	PAPACY:--Persecutions of popery; historical narratives		1844	USD -	Unknown
3553		PARAGRAPHS:--Bible, Containing the old and new testaments	Cambridge	1834	USD -	Unknown
3554	Charlevoix (Father)	PARAGUAY:--History of Paraguay		1769	USD -	Unknown
3555	Davie (J. C.)	PARAGUAY:--Letters from Paraguay	Lond.	1805	USD -	Unknown
3556	Robertson (J. P. and W. P.)	PARAGUAY:--Francia's reign of terror; a sequel to letters on Paraguay	Phila.	1859	USD -	Unknown
3557	Pardoe (Miss)	PARAGUAY:--The river and the desert	Phila.	1838	USD -	Unknown
3558		PARAGUAY:--Reginald Lyle, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3559	Park (R.)	PARAGUAY:--Pantology of a systematic survey of human knowledge	Phila.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3560		PARIS:--Galignani's Guide to Paris			USD -	Unknown
3561		PARIS:--History of Paris, from the earliest period to the present day	Paris	1825	USD -	Unknown
3561a		PARIS:--Lavalle, Histoire de Paris depuis le temps des gaulois jusqu'en 1850	Paris	1853	USD -	Unknown
3562		PARIS:--Paris described (L. N. R.)	Lond.	1829	USD -	Unknown
3563	Pinkerton (J.)	PARIS:--Recollections of Paris	Lond.	1806	USD -	Unknown
3564	Sanderson (J.)	PARIS:--American in Paris	Phila.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3565		PARLIAMENT:--Almon's Parliamentary register, 1780 to 1789	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3566	Hall (Arthur)	PARLIAMENT:--Account of his quarrel with Mallerie		1815	USD -	Unknown
3567		PARLIAMENT:--Jefferson's Manual of parliamentary practice	Wash.	1820	USD -	Unknown
3568		PARLIAMENT:--PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES	Lond.	1742	USD -	Unknown
3569		PARLIAMENT:--PARLIAMENTARY OR CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND from the earliest times, 1066			USD -	Unknown
3570		PARLIAMENT:--Sutherland's Manual of legislative practice, &c.	Phila.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3571		PARLIAMENT:--PARNASSIAN Wreath	N. Y.	1837	USD -	Unknown
3572	Fourier's (Charles)	PASSIONS:--The passions of the human soul and their influence on society and civilization	Bailliere	1851	USD -	Unknown
3573		PASSIONS:--Historical illustrations of the origin and progress of the passions, and their influence on mankind	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
3574		PASSIONS:--Illustrations of the passion of love	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
3575		PASSIONS:--Short treatise on the passions	Lond.	1810	USD -	Unknown
3576		PATAGONIA:--Bourne's Captivity in Patagonia	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3577		PATAGONIA:--Byron's Voyage			USD -	Unknown
3577a		PATAGONIA:--Falkner, Description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America	Hereford	1774	USD -	Unknown
3578	Macdougal (J.)	PATAGONIA:--Narrative of a voyage to Patagonia and Terra del Fuego	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3579		PATAGONIA:--PATENT Office reports			USD -	Unknown
3580	PAULDING (J. K.)	PATAGONIA:--The Puritan and his daughter	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
3581	PAULDING (J. K.)	PATAGONIA:--Book of St. Nicholas	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
3582	PAULDING (J. K.)	PATAGONIA:--Konigsmarke, The Long Pinne	N. Y.	1823	USD -	Unknown
3583		PATAGONIA:--PAUL FERRALL	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3584	PECK'S (F.)	PATAGONIA:--Napoleon, or the mysteries of the hundred days	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3585		PEERAGE (See also HERALDRY):--Burke's Geneological and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3586		PEERAGE (See also HERALDRY):--Coultharts of Coulthart and Colbyn, &c.	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3587		PEERAGE (See also HERALDRY):--Hardwick's Peerage for 1855	Lond.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3588		PEERAGE (See also HERALDRY):--Sharpe's Peerage of the British empire	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3589	Keate's (George)	PEERAGE (See also HERALDRY):--Account of the Pelew Islands Composed from the journals of Capt. H. Wilson and the officers shipwrecked in the Antelope		1788	USD -	Unknown
3590	T. H. Clarkson	PENN:--Memoirs of the private and public life of Wm. Penn	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
3591	Bowen (E.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--Pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania	Phila.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3592		PENNSYLVANIA:--Chambersburg, On the colony and the revolution		1856	USD -	Unknown
3593	Chapman (J. A.)	PENNSYLVANIA:--A sketch of the history of Wyoming	Wilkesbarre, Pa.	1830	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.