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
4413		TRACTS:--Observations on the commerce of the American States with Europe and the West Indies...			USD -	Unknown
4414		TRACTS:--Tracts. 3 by Sir William Jones on the mode of suppressing riots...			USD -	Unknown
4415		TRACTS:--Tracts. 1. Bartham's radical reform bill...			USD -	Unknown
4416		TRACTS:--Tracts. 8vo. boards uncut: Sampson against the Philistines...			USD -	Unknown
4417		TRACTS:--Tracts. 8vo. half calf, v. d.: Mackintosh's French revolution...			USD -	Unknown
4418		TRACTS:--Tracts. Duane's collection, comprising a large number of scarce State papers, &c. &c.			USD -	Unknown
4420	Field's (G.)	TRACTS:--AEsthetics on the analogy of the sensible sciences indicated (scarce.) Political and other pamphlets		1820	USD -	Unknown
4421	Davies (S.)	TRACTS:--The curse of cowardice, a sermon preached before the Virginia militia at Hanover	Lond.	1758	USD -	Unknown
4422		TRACTS:--Tracts. 1. A letter on the subject of economical retrenchment and Parliamentary reform...			USD -	Unknown
4423		TRACTS.--TRANSACTIONS of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge	Phila.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4424	Cobbett (W.)	TREES:--Treatise on the woodlands	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
4424a		TREES:--English forests and forest trees		1853	USD -	Unknown
4425		TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--A general collection of treaties	Lond.	1713	USD -	Unknown
4426		TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--Dumont et Rousset, corps diplomatique...		1725	USD -	Unknown
4427	Martens (Geo. F. de)	TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--Recueil de traites d'alliance...		1817	USD -	Unknown
4428		TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--Rapin's Acta regia, or an account of treaties	Lond.	1726	USD -	Unknown
4429	Sparks (Jared)	TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--Diplomatic correspondence of the United States of America, from the, signing of the definite treaty of peace, 1783, to 1789, being the letters of the Presidents, of Congress, Secretaries, Ministers, &c.	Wash.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4430	Sparks (Jared)	TREATIES AND DIPLOMACY:--Diplomatic correspondence of the American revolution, being the letters of B. Franklin, S. Deans, J. Adams, J. Jay, &c. &c.	Bost.	1829	USD -	Unknown
4431		TRIALS:--Amos's Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset for the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury in the Tower of London, and various matters connected therewith, from contemporary MSS		1846	USD -	Unknown
4432		TRIALS:--Celebrated trials of all countries	Phil.	1835	USD -	Unknown
4433	Chandler (P. W.)	TRIALS:--American criminal trials	Bost.		USD -	Unknown
4434	Chase (S.)	TRIALS:--Trial of, before the Senate, reported by Smith and Lloyd	Wash.	1805	USD -	Unknown
4435		TRIALS:--Collection of remarkable and interesting state trials	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
4437		TRIALS:--Craik's English causes celebres	Lond.	1844	USD -	Unknown
4438		TRIALS:--Fuerbach's Remarkable criminal trials	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
4439		TRIALS:--Hargrave's Complete collection of state trials, for high treason, crimes, and misdemeanors, from Richard II. to the reign of George III	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4440		TRIALS:--Irish state trials: report of the case of the Queen against O'Connell and others			USD -	Unknown
4441		TRIALS:--TRIPPINGS of Tom Pepper		1847	USD -	Unknown
4442	Aya Sofia	TURKEY:--Constantinople	Lond.	1852	USD -	Unknown
4443		TURKEY:--Alhacen's Life of Tamerlane the Great	Lond.	1753	USD -	Unknown
4444	Baltimore (Lord)	TURKEY:--Tour in 1763-1764	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
4445		TURKEY:--Barker's Turkish and English grammar, reading, &c.		1854	USD -	Unknown
4446	Cantemir (D.)	TURKEY:--History of the growth and decay of the Ottoman empire from the reign of Ottoman, the founder, to the reign of Mahomet IV., from the year 1300 to the siege of Vienna in 1683	Lond.	1734	USD -	Unknown
4447		TURKEY:--De Sara ceniset Turcis Chronicon Wolfgangi Drechsleri	Strasburg, France	1550	USD -	Unknown
4448		TURKEY:--Danubian Principalities, the frontier lands of the Christian and the Turk		1854	USD -	Unknown
4449	Eton's (W.)	TURKEY:--Survey of the Turkish empire, its government, finances, &c.	Lond.	1809	USD -	Unknown
4450		TURKEY:--Fisher's Views of Constantinople and its environs, splendidly engraved on steel			USD -	Unknown
4451		TURKEY:--Gaultier's Constantinople of today			USD -	Unknown
4452	Grelor's (W. J.)	TURKEY:--Voyage to Constantinople	Lond.	1683	USD -	Unknown
4453	Hill (A.)	TURKEY:--Full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman empire			USD -	Unknown
4454	Knolles (Richard)	TURKEY:--Turkish history	Lond.	1687	USD -	Unknown
4455		TURKEY:--Letters writ by a Turkish spy		1702	USD -	Unknown
4456	Ockley (Simon)	TURKEY:--History of the Saracens	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
4457	Taylor (B.)	TURKEY:--Lands of the Saracen	N. Y.	1855	USD -	Unknown
4458	Pignotti (L.)	TUSCANY:--History of Tuscany from the earliest era		1826	USD -	Unknown
4459	TUTHILL (Mrs.)	TUSCANY:--Success in life	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4460		TUSCANY:--TUPPER'S Crock of gold, &c.	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4461		TUSCANY:--TWELVE Stars of the republic	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4462		TUSCANY:--Two Dianas, and other novels			USD -	Unknown
4463	Ravage (Wm.)	TYPOGRAPHY:--Dictionary of the art of printing	Lond.	1841	USD -	Unknown
4464	SOTHEBY'S (S. L.)	TYPOGRAPHY:--PRINCIPIA TYPOGRAPHICA: THE BLOCK BOOKS, OR XYLOGRAPHIC DELINEATIONS OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY	Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown
4465	Barton (C. A.)	UNITARIANISM:--Discourses on the Christian spirit and life	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4466	Channing	UNITARIANISM:--Channing's Works	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4466a	Channing	UNITARIANISM:--Channing's Memoirs	Bost.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4467	Dewey (O.)	UNITARIANISM:--Discourses on various subjects	N. Y.	1838	USD -	Unknown
4468	Follen (Mrs.)	UNITARIANISM:--Follen (Mrs.), Works of			USD -	Unknown
4469		UNITARIANISM:--Isaac, Doctrine of universal restoration refuted	N. Y.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4470	Lindsay's (Theoph.)	UNITARIANISM:--View of the Unitarian doctrine and worship	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4471	Belsham	UNITARIANISM:--Lindsay's (Theoph.) Memoirs	Lond.	1812	USD -	Unknown
4472	Adams (J.)	UNITED STATES:--Defence of the constitution and government of the United States of America	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4473		UNITED STATES:--Bancroft's History of the United States	Bost.	1850	USD -	Unknown
4474	Bartlett's (W. H.)	UNITED STATES:--History of the United States of America	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4475	Brother's (Thos.)	UNITED STATES:--United States of North America as they are, not as they are generally described	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
4476	Butler's (F.)	UNITED STATES:--Complete history of the United States' from the discovery of North America to 1850	Elizabethtown	1822	USD -	Unknown
4477		UNITED STATES:--Colles' Survey of the roads of the United States of America	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
4478	Cox's (Tench)	UNITED STATES:--View of the United States between the years 1787 and 1794	Phila.	1794	USD -	Unknown
4479		UNITED STATES:--De Reaujour's Sketches of the United States at the commencement of the 19th century, from 1800 to 1810	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
4480	De Roos (Lieut.)	UNITED STATES:--The Hon. Fred. Fitzgerald. Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
4481	De Bow's (J. D. B.)	UNITED STATES:--Statistical view of the United States	Wash.	1854	USD -	Unknown
4482	Finch (J.)	UNITED STATES:--Travels in the United States and Canada	Lond.	1833	USD -	Unknown
4483		UNITED STATES:--Grahame's History of the United States of North America, from the plantation of the British colonies till the revolt and Declaration of Independence	Phila.	1848	USD -	Unknown
4484	Hale (Hon. Salma)	UNITED STATES:--History of the United States, from their first settlement as colonies to the close of the administration of Mr. Madison, in 1817	Aberdeen		USD -	Unknown
4485	Hawk's (F. L.)	UNITED STATES:--Contributions to the ecclesiastical history of the United States of America (Maryland and Virginia)	N. Y.	1836	USD -	Unknown
4486	Hildreth (R.)	UNITED STATES:--History of the United States	N. Y.	1852	USD -	Unknown
4487		UNITED STATES:--Hinton's History and topography of the United States	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
4488	Holmes (Isaac)	UNITED STATES:--An account of the United States of America	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4489		UNITED STATES:--Journal of the Federal convention of the United States	Bost.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4490	Kendall's (Edw. A.)	UNITED STATES:--Travels through the northern parts of the United States in 1807--8	N. Y.	1809	USD -	Unknown
4491	Melish (John)	UNITED STATES:--Travels through the United States of America and Canada in the years 1806-11	Phila.	1815	USD -	Unknown
4492	Oldmixon (Capt.)	UNITED STATES:--Transatlantic wanderings; or a last look at the United States			USD -	Unknown
4493	Poussin (Guillaume Tell)	UNITED STATES:--The United States: its power and progress	Phila.	1851	USD -	Unknown
4494	Sheffield (Lord)	UNITED STATES:--Observations on the commerce of the American States, and the exports of America	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4495		UNITED STATES:--Statistics of the United States, census of 1850		1853	USD -	Unknown
4496		UNITED STATES:--Reports of the United States Coast survey		1851	USD -	Unknown
4497		UNITED STATES:--Smith's Illustrated handbook for the United States			USD -	Unknown
4498		UNITED STATES:--Tucker's History of the United States, from their colonization to the end of the 26th Congress in 1841	Phila.	1856	USD -	Unknown
4499		UNITED STATES:--United States Album. Embellished with the arms of each State	Phila.	1844	USD -	Unknown
4500	Williams (E.)	UNITED STATES:--The presidents of the United States, their memoirs and administrations	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
4501	Walsh (P.)	UNITED STATES:--Appeal from the judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States of America	Philad.	1819	USD -	Unknown
4502	Winterbotham (W.)	UNITED STATES:--Historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West Indies	N. Y.	1796	USD -	Unknown
4503		UNITED STATES:--UNIVERSAL HISTORY, from its earliest account of time to the present	Lond.	1740	USD -	Unknown
4504		UNITED STATES:--Laponneraye, Histoire universelle depuis les premiers ages du monde jusqu'a l'epoques actuelles	Par.	1845	USD -	Unknown
4505		UNITED STATES:--UNIVERSE Displayed, a survey of the wonderful works of Creation	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4506	Nugent (Thos.)	VANDALIA:--History of Vandalia, its revolutions under the Vandals, the Venedi, and the Saxons	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
4507		VASES:--Englefield's Ancient vases. Drawn and engraved by H. Moses	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4507a		VASES:--Millin, Peintures de vases antiques Etrusque	Par.	1808	USD -	Unknown
4508		VASES:--Moses' Antique vases and ornaments	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4509	VELSERI (M.)	VASES:--Opera historica et philologica, sacra et profana		1682	USD -	Unknown
4510		VENEZUELA:--Campaigns and cruises in Venezuela and New Granada, and in the Pacific Ocean, from 1817 to 1830, and sketches of the west coast of South America, from the Gulf of California to the Archipelago of Chiloe	Lond.	1831	USD -	Unknown
4511	Lavaysse (M.)	VENEZUELA:--Description of Venezuela, Trinidad, Margarita, and Tobaga	Lond.	1820	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.