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
4191	Depon (F.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Travels in South America, 1801-4	N. Y.	1806	USD -	Unknown
4192		SOUTH AMERICA:--Dolores, a historical novel of South America			USD -	Unknown
4193	Empson (Charles)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Narratives of South America	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
4194	Gilliss (J. M.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--United States astronomical expedition to the Southern hemisphere, 1849, '50, '51, and '52			USD -	Unknown
4195	Hawkshaw's (J.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Reminiscences of South America	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
4196		SOUTH AMERICA:--Herndon and Gibbons, Account of the explorations of the river Amazon			USD -	Unknown
4197		SOUTH AMERICA:--Holstein's memoirs of Simon Bolivar	Lond.	1830	USD -	Unknown
4198		SOUTH AMERICA:--Juan and Ulloa's voyage to South America	Lond.	1752	USD -	Unknown
4199	Keith (Sir G. M.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Voyage to South America and the Cape of Good Hope	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4200	Pazos (Don V.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Letters on the United Provinces of South America, translated by Crosby	N. Y.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4201	Stevenson (W. B.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Historical and descriptive narrative of 20 years' residence in South America	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4202		SOUTH AMERICA:--Voyages and discoveries in South America by d'Acvgna, Acarete, Grillet, and Bechamel	Lond.	1690	USD -	Unknown
4203	Wood (Wm. M.)	SOUTH AMERICA:--Wandering sketches of South America, Polynesia, California, &c.	Phila.	1849	USD -	Unknown
4204	Ford (T.)	SOUTH CAROLINA:--Address to the literary and philosophical society of South Carolina	Charleston	1848	USD -	Unknown
4205	Hewitt (Alex.)	SOUTH CAROLINA:--South Carolina and Georgia, Historical account of the rise and progress of	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4206	Ramsay (Dr.)	SOUTH CAROLINA:--History of the revolution of South Carolina	Tren.	1785	USD -	Unknown
4207	Ramsay (Dr.)	SOUTH CAROLINA:--The history of South Carolina, from its first settlement in 1670 to the year 1808	Charleston	1809	USD -	Unknown
4208		SOUTH CAROLINA:--South Carolina Historical Society collections	Charleston	1857	USD -	Unknown
4209	Moll (H.)	SOUTH SEA (see also Pacific):--View of the coast countries and islands of the South Sea Company	Lond.	1711	USD -	Unknown
4210	Stewart (C. S.)	SOUTH SEA (see also Pacific):--Visit to the South Seas in the U. S. Ship Vincennes, and scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, &c.	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4212	Stewart (C. S.)	SOUTH SEA (see also Pacific):--Idem	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4213	Bartram (Wm., the Botanist)	SOUTHERN STATES (see under their respective names):--Travels in the Southern States	Lond.	1792	USD -	Unknown
4214		SOUTHERN Literary Messenger		1853	USD -	Unknown
4215	SOUTHEY (R.)	SOUTHERN STATES (see under their respective names):--SOUTHEY (R.), Poetical works	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4216	J. W. Warter, editor	SOUTHERN STATES (see under their respective names):--SOUTHEY'S Common-place book	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
4216a	SOUTHWORTH'S (S.)	SOUTHERN STATES (see under their respective names):--The mother-in-law	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
4217	SOUVESTRE (E.)	SOUTHERN STATES (see under their respective names):--An attic philosopher in Paris	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4218	Bradford (Rev. W.)	SPAIN:--Sketches of the country, character, and costume in Portugal and Spain, during the campaign of the British army in 1808 and 1809	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4219		SPAIN:--Carleton, Memoirs of Capt. G. Carleton, an English officer	Oxf.	1826	USD -	Unknown
4220		SPAIN:--Catechisme politique de la Constitution Espagnole	Par.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4221	Dillon (J. T.)	SPAIN:--Travels through Spain, in a series of letters	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
4222	Fischer (C. A.)	SPAIN:--Picture of Madrid	Lond.	1808	USD -	Unknown
4223	Ford (R.)	SPAIN:--The Spaniards and their country	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4224	Moore (James)	SPAIN:--Narrative of the campaign in Spain	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
4225		SPAIN:--Murphy's Arabian antiquities of Spain...	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4226		SPAIN:--Poco MAS, Scenes and adventures in Spain, from 1835 to 1840	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4227	Southey's (R.)	SPAIN:--Chronicle of the Cid. From the Spanish	Lowell	1840	USD -	Unknown
4228		SPAIN:--Spanish tracts			USD -	Unknown
4229	Watson's (Dr. Robert)	SPAIN:--History of the reigns of Philip II. and Philip III., Kings of Spain		1778	USD -	Unknown
4230	Bonnycastle (R. H.)	SPAIN:--Spanish America, descriptive, historical, and geographical	Phila.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4231	R. Rylance	SPANISH COLONIES:--Sketches of the causes and consequences of the late emigration to the Brazils	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4232	Walton (W.)	SPANISH COLONIES:--Present state of the Spanish colonies	Lond.	1810	USD -	Unknown
4233		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, &c.	Bost.	1852	USD -	Unknown
4234		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Neuman Pocket dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages	phila.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4235		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Nunez Diccionario Frances-Espanol y Espanol-Frances	par.	1820	USD -	Unknown
4236		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Ollendorf, Spanish grammar	N.Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4237		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Urcullu, Gramatica Inglesa	Phila.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4238		SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Urcullu, Spanish grammar	Phila.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4239	SPARKS (Jared)	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Library of American biography	Bost.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4240	SPARKS (Jared)	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Life of Governeur Morris	Bost.	1832	USD -	Unknown
4241	SPARKS (Jared)	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Life of Ledyard, the American traveller	Camb.	1828	USD -	Unknown
4242	Alexander Chalmers	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--SPECTATOR (The). With prefaces, historical and biographical	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
4243	Mrs. Barbauld	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--Selections from the Spectator, Tattler, Guardian, and Freeholder	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
4244	John Swan	SPANISH LANGUAGE:--SPECULUM Mundi; or, a glass representing the face of the world	Camb.	1643	USD -	Unknown
4245		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Adams and Jefferson, a Collection of eulogies in honor of	Hart.	1826	USD -	Unknown
4246		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Almon's Anecdotes and speeches of the Earl of Chatham		1794	USD -	Unknown
4247		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Beauties of the British senate, from debates in the lords and commons	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4248	Brougham's (Lord)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Social and political speeches	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
4249	Browne (Dr.), British Cicero	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Selections of most admired speeches in the English language	Lond.	1808	USD -	Unknown
4250	Campbell (Lord)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Campbell (Lord), Speeches of, at the bar and in the House of Commons	Edin.	1842	USD -	Unknown
4251	Walsh, editor	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Canning, Select speeches	Phila.	1835	USD -	Unknown
4252	Carlyle (T.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4253	Carpenter (S. C.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Select American speeches, forensic and parliamentary	Phila.	1815	USD -	Unknown
4254	Chapman (N.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Chapman (N.), Select speeches, forensic and parliamentary	Phila.	1808	USD -	Unknown
4255	Clay (H.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Clay (H.), Life and speeches	N. Y.	1843	USD -	Unknown
4256	Curran (J. P.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Curran (J. P.), Speeches of	Dub.	1811	USD -	Unknown
4257	Everett's (E.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Orations and speeches	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4258	Godman (J. D.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Addresses delivered on various public occasions	Phila.	1829	USD -	Unknown
4259	Grattan (H.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Grattan (H.), Speeches of, in the Irish and imperial parliaments	Lond.	1822	USD -	Unknown
4260		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Magoon's Eloquence of the revolution		1847	USD -	Unknown
4261		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Maxey's American eloquence, consisting of orations, addresses, and sermons	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4262		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Parliamentary debates, Collections of, from 1668 to 1742		1741	USD -	Unknown
4263	Sedley's (Sir Chas.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Sedley's (Sir Chas.) Poetical works and speeches, &c.	Lond.	1710	USD -	Unknown
4264		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Senator (The), or Clarendon's Parliamentary Chronicle	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4265	Sheridan (R. B.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Sheridan (R. B.), Speeches, and his life	Lond.	1842	USD -	Unknown
4266	Sheridan (R. B.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Sheridan (R. B.) Speech of	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4267	Sheil (R. L.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Sheil (R. L.), Speeches of	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4268	Williston (E. B.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Eloquence of the United States		1827	USD -	Unknown
4269	Windham (W.) and Huskisson (W.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Windham (W.) and Huskisson (W.), Select speeches	Philad.	1837	USD -	Unknown
4270	SPENCER (Rev. Thos.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--Twenty-one sermons	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4271	SPENSER	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--SPENSER'S Poetical works	Lond.	1805	USD -	Unknown
4272	SPENSER (Edmund)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--SPENSER (Edmund), Poetical works of			USD -	Unknown
4273	SPINDLER (C.)	SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--The Invalides, or pictures of the French revolution	Lond.	1045	USD -	Unknown
4273a		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--SPIRIT of despotism	Philad.	1795	USD -	Unknown
4274		SPEECHES AND ORATIONS:--SPIRIT of the public journals, or beauties of the American newspapers for 1805	Balt.	1806	USD -	Unknown
4275	Davis (A. J.)	SPIRITUALISM:--Great Harmonia	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4276		SPIRITUALISM:--Dod's Spirit manifestations examined and explained	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4277	Apperley (C. J.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Nimrod abroad	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
4278		SPORTS AND GAMES:--D'Ewee's Sporting in both hemispheres	Lond.	1857	USD -	Unknown
4279	Frost (J.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Art of swimming	N. Y.	1818	USD -	Unknown
4280		SPORTS AND GAMES:--Gelert's Guide to the fox-hounds and stag-hounds of England, to which are added the otter-hounds and harriers	Lond.	1849	USD -	Unknown
4281	Gerard (J.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Lion-hunting and sporting-life in Algeria	Lond.	1854	USD -	Unknown
4282	Gerstaecker (Fred.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Wild sports of the Far West		1854	USD -	Unknown
4283	Hammond (S. H.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Hunting adventures in the northern wilds, or a tramp in the Chateauguay woods	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
4284	Harris (Capt. W. C.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Wild sports of Southern Africa, being a narrative of field-sports of the Cape	Lond.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4285		SPORTS AND GAMES:--Johnson's Hunting directory	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown
4286	H. M. Klapp, editor	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Krider's Sporting anecdotes	Philad.	1853	USD -	Unknown
4287	Lawrence (R.)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Complete farmer and British sportsman	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4288	Mills (John)	SPORTS AND GAMES:--Life of a fox-hound	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4289		SPORTS AND GAMES:--Nimrod's Northern tour, descriptive of the principal hunts in Scotland and the North of England	Lond.	1838	USD -	Unknown

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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.

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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.

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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.