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
4090	Drake (Dr. Nathan)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare and his times	Lond.	1817	USD -	Unknown
4091	Fairholt (F. W.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Stories of Shakspeare	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
4092	Fletcher (Geo.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Dramatic studies of Shakspeare	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
4093	Griffith (Mrs.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Morality of Shakspeare's drama	Dub.	1777	USD -	Unknown
4094		SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Ireland's Shakspeare papers	Lond.	1796	USD -	Unknown
4095	Jackson (Z.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare's genius justified	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4096	Knight (Charles)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Studies of Shakspeare	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4097	Knight (Charles)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare, a Biography	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4098	Miss and Charles Lamb.	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare		1850	USD -	Unknown
4099	Montagu (Mrs. Elizabeth)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Essay on the writings and genius of Shakspeare	Lond.	1777	USD -	Unknown
4100	Price (T.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Wisdom and genius of Shakspeare	Philad.	1889	USD -	Unknown
4101		SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Religious and moral sentences culled from the works of Shakspeare compared with sacred passages drawn from Holy Writ	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
4102		SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Richardson's Philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakspeare's remarkable characters	Philad.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4103	Seymour's (E. H.)	SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Remarks, critical and explanatory, upon the plays of Shakspeare, from a collection of the early copies		1805	USD -	Unknown
4104		SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare's library: a collection of the romances	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4105		SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Upton's Critical observations on Shakspeare	Lond.	1746	USD -	Unknown
4106	Blacklock (A.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--On sheep	N. Y.	1841	USD -	Unknown
4107	Morell (L. A.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--The American shepherd	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
4108		SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Randall's Sheep husbandry	Philad.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4109	Spooner (W. C.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--On diseases of sheep, &c.	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4110	SHELLEY'S (P. B.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Poetical works, essays, and letters	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4111	SHELLEY'S (P. B.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Poems	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
4112	SHELLEY'S (P. B.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Essays, letters, &c.	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4112a		SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY, Genius of	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4113	SHELLEY (Mrs.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Falkner, a novel	N.Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
4114	SHELLEY (Mrs.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Lodore	Brussels	1835	USD -	Unknown
4115	SHENSTONE (W.)	SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHENSTONE (W.), Works in verse and prose	Lond.	1765	USD -	Unknown
4117		SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHEPPARD LEE, a novel	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
4118	Lefanu (A.)	SHERIDAN:--Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, her mother, and also of Rt. Hon. Richard B. Sheridan	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
4119	Moore (Thos.)	SHERIDAN:--Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4120	SHERWOOD (Mrs.)	SHERIDAN:--SHERWOOD (Mrs.), Works of	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
4121	SHERWOOD (Mrs.)	SHERIDAN:--SHERWOOD (Mrs.), Life of	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4122	SHERWOOD (Mrs.)	SHERIDAN:--The De Cliffords	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
4123	Henry Watson	SHIP-BUILDING:--Euler's (L.) Complete theory of the construction of vessels, with conclusions for the management of ships	Lond.	1790	USD -	Unknown
4124	Moat (T.)	SHORT-HAND:--Short-hand standard	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4125		SHORT-HAND:--SHOEMAKERS, Lives of distinguished		1849	USD -	Unknown
4126		SIAM:--Neal's residence in Siam	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4127	Atkinson (T. W.)	SIBERIA:--Oriental and Western Siberia	N. Y.	1858	USD -	Unknown
4128	Bartlett (W. H.)	SICILY:--Pictures from Sicily	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4129	Smyth (W. H.)	SICILY:--Memoir descriptive of the resources	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
4130	SIDNEY'S (Sir Philip)	SICILY:--Works: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia	Lond.	1674	USD -	Unknown
4131	Dandolo (Count)	SILKWORMS:--Art of rearing silkworms	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4132	Vernon (W. H.)	SILKWORMS:--On the mulberry-tree and silkworms	Bost.	1828	USD -	Unknown
4133		SILKWORMS:--SIEGFRIED, The dragon-slayer	Lond.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4134	SILLIMAN (Benj.)	SILKWORMS:--Remarks made on a tour between Hartford and Quebec in the autumn of 1819	New Haven	1820	USD -	Unknown
4135	SILLIMAN (Aug.)	SILKWORMS:--A gallop among American scenery, or sketches of scenes and adventures	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4136	SIMMS (W. G.)	SILKWORMS:--Richard Hurdis	Phil.	1838	USD -	Unknown
4137	SIMMS (W. G.)	SILKWORMS:--Calavar, or the knight of the conquest	Philad.	1834	USD -	Unknown
4138	SIMMS (W. G.)	SILKWORMS:--SIMMS (W. G.), Novels, various	N. Y.	1853	USD -	Unknown
4139	SIMMS (W. G.)	SILKWORMS:--Views and reviews, &c.			USD -	Unknown
4140		SLAVERY:--Pro-slavery argument, containing essays by Chancellor Harper, Gov. Hammond, and Professor Den	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
4141		SLAVERY:--Substance of the report delivered by the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company in 1794	Philad.	1795	USD -	Unknown
4142	Thompson (Geo.)	SLAVERY:--Reception of, in Great Britain	Bost.	1836	USD -	Unknown
4143	Thompson (G.)	SLAVERY:--Lectures on slavery	Bost.	1836	USD -	Unknown
4143a	Binns (E.)	SLEEP:--Anatomy of sleep	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4144	Philip (Dr. Wilson)	SLEEP:--Inquiry into the nature of sleep and death	Lond.	1834	USD -	Unknown
4145		SLEEP:--SMALL books on great subjects		1840	USD -	Unknown
4146	SMART'S (C.)	SLEEP:--SMART'S (C.) Poems	Reading	1791	USD -	Unknown
4147	SMITH'S (Charlotte)	SLEEP:--Elegiac sonnets and other poems	Lond.	1792	USD -	Unknown
4148	SMITH (C.)	SLEEP:--Emeline, the orphan of the castle	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4149	SMITH (C.)	SLEEP:--Idem	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4150	SMITH (Horace)	SLEEP:--Zillah, a tale of the Holy Land	Lond.	1839	USD -	Unknown
4151	SMITH (Horace and James)	SLEEP:--Memoirs, letters, and comic miscellanies, prose and verse	Philad.	1841	USD -	Unknown
4152	SMITH (Lady)	SLEEP:--Memoir and correspondence of the late Sir Jas. Ed. Smith	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
4153		SLEEP:--SMITH'S Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology, and antiquities			USD -	Unknown
4154	SMITH (C. J.)	SLEEP:--Historical and literary curiosities	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
4155		SLEEP:--SMITHSONIAN Institution, Reports of			USD -	Unknown
4156		SLEEP:--SMOLLETT'S works: Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker, Peregrine Pickle, Launcelot Greaves, Count Fathom, Adventures of an atom, Travels, Plays, &c.		1845	USD -	Unknown
4157		SLEEP:--SMOLLETT'S works: Humphrey Clinker	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4158	SMYTH (W.)	SLEEP:--Lectures on modern history	Bost.	1855	USD -	Unknown
4159	SOMERS'S (Lord)	SLEEP:--Collection of scarce and valuable tracts on the most interesting subjects		1748	USD -	Unknown
4160	SOMERVILLE (Mrs.)	SLEEP:--Connection of the physical sciences	Lond.	1837	USD -	Unknown
4161		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Book of British ballads	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
4162		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Boyd's book of German ballads (in English verse)	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
4163	Coxe (A. C.)	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Christian ballads	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4164	Cunningham's (Allan)	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Songs of Scotland, ancient and modern	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4165		SONGS AND BALLADS:--English Songs: book of	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4166	P. P. Cooke	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Froissart, Ballads of, and poems	Phila.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4167		SONGS AND BALLADS:--German songs, book of	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4168		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Horne's Ballad romances	Lond.	1846	USD -	Unknown
4169		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Lockart's Ancient Spanish ballads	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4170		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Mulchinock's Ballads and songs	N.Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4172		SONGS AND BALLADS:--National song books	Phila.	1842	USD -	Unknown
4173		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry	Phila.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4174		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Pictorial book of ballads, traditional and romantic	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4176	John Payne Collier, editor	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Roxburghe ballads	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4177	Richards (A.)	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Minstrelsy of war	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
4178		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Skylark, The; being an elegant collection of the best and newest songs in the English language	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4179	Watts (J.)	SONGS AND BALLADS:--Divine and moral songs, for the use of children	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4180		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Clarke on the immortality of the soul		1778	USD -	Unknown
4181		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Controversy concerning the intermediate state and separate existence of the soul		1765	USD -	Unknown
4182		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Second thoughts concerning the human soul	Lond.	1702	USD -	Unknown
4183		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Two treatises on bodies and the discovery of the immortality of the soul	Lond.	1665	USD -	Unknown
4184		SONGS AND BALLADS:--Vindicie mentis	Lond.	1712	USD -	Unknown
4185	Bordone (Benedetto)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Libro di nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'Isole del mondo	Vinegia	1528	USD -	Unknown
4186	Brown's (C.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Narrative of the expedition to South America in 1817	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4187		SOUTH AMERICA:--Caldcleugh, Travels in South America		1825	USD -	Unknown
4188	Coatinho (Bp. of Pernambuco)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Essay on the commerce and products of the Portuguese colonies in South America	Lond.	1808	USD -	Unknown
4189	Cockburn (John)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Distresses and adventures of	Lond.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4190	Coulter's (Dr. J.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Adventures on the Western Coast of South America and interior of California	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.