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
4698		DISCOURSE on the English constitution, extracted from a late eminent writer, and applicable to the present times	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4699		RIGHT of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America, being an answer to the declaration of the General Congress, &c.		1776	USD -	Unknown
4700	Bentham	DE TUMULTIBUS AMERICANIS deque eorum concilatoribus meditatio senilis	Oxon	1776	USD -	Unknown
4701		INQUIRY whether the guilt of the present civil war ought to be imputed to Great Britain or America		1776	USD -	Unknown
4702	SMITH (W.)	An oration in memory of General Montgomery and of the officers and soldiers who fell with him, December 31, 1775	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4703	ADAMS (Samuel)	Oration delivered at the State-house in Philadelphia, August 1, 1776	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4704	Gen. Hutchinson	STRICTURES upon the declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4705	Mr. Lind	ANSWER to the declaration of the American Congress	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4706	Pulteney, Earl of Bath	FACTION detected by the evidence of facts	Lond.	1743	USD -	Unknown
4707		REVIEW of the whole political conduct of a late eminent patriot and his friends	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
4708		LETTER concerning libels, warrants, the seizure of papers, &c.		1765	USD -	Unknown
4709		TRIAL of John Peter Zenger, of New York, printer	Lond.	1765	USD -	Unknown
4710		OBSERVATIONS on a late state of the nation	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4711		AMERICAN independence the interest and glory of Great Britain	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
4712		LETTER to Edmund Burke, Esq.		1775	USD -	Unknown
4713		COMMON SENSE, addressed to the inhabitants of America	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4714		PLAIN truths addressed to the inhabitants of America	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4715		THE true interest of America impartially stated in certain strictures on a pamphlet entitled "Common sense." Title 1, dedic		1776	USD -	Unknown
4716		ADDITIONS to "Common sense," addressed to the inhabitants of America		1776	USD -	Unknown
4717		LETTERS on the Americans	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4718		MINUTES of the trial and examination of certain persons in the province of New York, &c.	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4719		CASE of James Christie, jun	No place	1775	USD -	Unknown
4720	SOMERS (John Lord)	Judgment of kingdoms and nations concerning the rights, power, and prerogative of kings, and the rights, &c., of the people	Lond.	1771	USD -	Unknown
4721		MISCELLANEOUS thoughts on the present posture both of our foreign and domestic affairs		1742	USD -	Unknown
4722		A LETTER to His G (rac) e the D (uk) e of B (edfor) d		1757	USD -	Unknown
4723	Dr. Samuel Johnson	FALSE alarm		1770	USD -	Unknown
4724		ADDRESS to Protestant dissenters of all denominations, &c.	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4725	PRICE (Richard)	Additional observations on the nature of civil liberty and the war with America	Lond.	1777	USD -	Unknown
4726	BURKE (Edmund)	Letter from, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs.		1777	USD -	Unknown
4727		PLAN to reconcile Great Britain and her Colonies, and preserve the dependency of America		1774	USD -	Unknown
4728		LETTER to Doctor Tucker on his proposal of a separation between Great Britain and her American Colonies		1774	USD -	Unknown
4729		LETTER to Mr. Powyer on the independency of America		1778	USD -	Unknown
4730		A CONCILIATION with America adapted to the constitutional rights of the colonies and the supremacy of Great Britain		1778	USD -	Unknown
4731	Junius	SERIOUS letter to the public on a late transaction between Lord North and the Duke of Gordon		1778	USD -	Unknown
4732		LETTER to Dr. Wilson and Rev. Mr. Horne on their political conduct		1770	USD -	Unknown
4733		SEASONABLE and affecting observations on the mutiny bill, articles of Avar, and use and abuse of a standing army		1750	USD -	Unknown
4734		POLITICAL analysis of the war: the principles of the present political parties examined	Lond.	1762	USD -	Unknown
4735		DEFENCE of the minority in the House of Commons on the question relating to general warrants	Lond.	1764	USD -	Unknown
4736		DEFENCE of the majority in the House of Commons in answer to the last	Lond.	1764	USD -	Unknown
4737		PRINCIPLES of the late charges impartially examined	Lond.	1764	USD -	Unknown
4738		SOME thoughts on serious subjects addressed to the Earl of S(andwic)h	Lond.	1765	USD -	Unknown
4739		NECESSITY of repealing the American stamp act	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
4740		ABSOLUTE necessity of laying open the trade to the East Indies	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
4741		LETTER to G(eorge) G(renville). "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong"	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
4742		APPLICATION of some general political rules to the present state of Great Britain, Ireland, and America	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
4743		THE political balance in which the principles and conduct of the two parties are weighed	Lond.	1765	USD -	Unknown
4744		THE constitutional right of the legislature of Great Britain to tax the British colonies in America	Lond.	1768	USD -	Unknown
4745	OTIS (James, of Boston)	Vindication of the British colonies	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4746		INQUIRY into the nature and causes of the disputes between the British colonies in America and their mother-country	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4747		LETTER to the Earl of Hilsborough on the present situation of affairs in America	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4748		THE DEBATE in the House of Commons, Feb. 27, 1771	Lond.	1771	USD -	Unknown
4749		LETTER to the jurors of Great Britain occasioned by Lord Mansfield's opinion in the case of King and Woodfall	Lond.	1771	USD -	Unknown
4750		RIGHT of the British legislature to tax the American colonies vindicated	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4751	MORRISON (John)	Advantages of an alliance with the Great Mogul, &c.	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4753	KENRICK (W.)	Address to the artists and manufacturers of Great Britain, &c., for the further encouragement of new discoveries and inventions, &c.	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4754		SPEECH intended to have been delivered in the House of Commons in support of the petitions from the General Congress at Philadelphia	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
4755		ADDRESS to L(or)d M(an)sf(iel)d		1775	USD -	Unknown
4756		ESSAY in vindication of the Continental Colonies of America. From a censure of Mr. Adam Smith, in his theory of moral sentiments		1764	USD -	Unknown
4757		FRAGMENT on government. Being an examination of what is delivered on the subject of government in general, in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's commentaries	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4758		HISTORY of Prime Ministers and Favorites in England, from the conquest down to the present time, &c.		1763	USD -	Unknown
4759		FOUR Dissertations on the reciprocal advantages of a perpetual union between Great Britain and her Colonies. Written for Mr. Sargent's prize medal, &c.	Lond.	-1766	USD -	Unknown
4760		SECRET history of Colonel Hooke's negotiations in Scotland in favor of the pretender in 1707, &c.	Lond.	1760	USD -	Unknown
4761		SCHEME to pay off the National Debt by a repeal of the marriage act	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
4762	HALIFAX (S.)	Analysis of the Roman civil law compared with the laws of England, &c.	Camb.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4763	VANDERLINT (Jacob)	Money answers all things; or, an essay to make money sufficiently plentiful amongst all ranks of people	Lond.	1734	USD -	Unknown
4764		SECRET springs of the late changes in the ministry fairly explained in answer to the abuse, &c., of a pretended Son of Candor	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
4765		POLITICAL remarks on Dr. Nowell's sermon before the House of Commons, Jan. 30, 1772, in which is considered the great danger and abuse of making religion an inquiry of State	Lond.	-1772	USD -	Unknown
4766		THE Political mirror	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4767	Dean Tucker	SERIES of answers to certain popular objections against separating from the Colonies, &c.	Gloucester	1776	USD -	Unknown
4768		CONSIDERATIONS on the bill for a general naturalization, &c.	Lond.	1748	USD -	Unknown
4769		THE Jews' advocate. Containing Locke's sentiments respecting the treatment of the Jews by Christians	Lond.	1753	USD -	Unknown
4770		TRIAL of John Almon, bookseller, upon an information, &c., for selling Junius's letter to the king	Lond.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4771		THINGS as they are	Lond.	1758	USD -	Unknown
4772		SERIOUS defence of some late measures of the administration, &c.	Lond.	1756	USD -	Unknown
4773		SERIOUS and impartial observations on the blessings of liberty and peace, &c.	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4774		ANTICIPATION. Containing the substance of his majesty's speech, &c.	Lond.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4775	FIELDING (Henry)	Inquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, &c., in which the present reigning vices are impartially exposed, &c.	Lond.	1751	USD -	Unknown
4776		MEMORIAL of the present state of the British nation, wherein the character and designs of parties, &c., are set in an impartial light	Lond.	1722	USD -	Unknown
4777	Sir F. Bacon	SELECT tracts relating to the Colonies. Essay on plantations	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4778		IMPARTIAL examination of the conduct of the whigs and tories, from the revolution down to the present time	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
4779	Edmund Burke	THOUGHTS on the cause of the present discontents	Lond.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4780	Israel Mauduit	REMARKS upon Gen. Howe's account of his proceedings on Long Island in the Extraordinary Gazette of Oct. 10,1775	Lond.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4781	Israel Mauduit	OBSERVATIONS upon the conduct of S(i)r W(illia)m H(ow)e at the White Plains, as related in the Gazette of Dec. 80, 1776	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4782	Israel Mauduit	STRICTURES on the Philadelphia mischianza, or triumph upon leaving America unconquered, &c.	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4783	Israel Mauduit	THREE letters to Lord Viscount Howe, to which are added remarks on the battle of Bunker's Hill	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
4784		DEFENCE of Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart., at the court-martial lately held upon him, with the court's sentence	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4785	EDEN (William)	Four letters to the Earl of Carlisle on certain perversions of political reasonings on the nature, progress, and effect of party spirit and of parties, &c.	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4786	Charles Inglis, Rector of New York	LETTERS of Papinian, in which the conduct, present state, and prospects of the American Congress are examined	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4787		HISTORICAL anecdotes, civil and military; in a series of letters written in America, in 1777--'78, to different persons in England regarding the'revolted colonies	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4788		SPEECH of Edmund Burke on presenting a plan for the better security of independence of parliament		1780	USD -	Unknown
4789		CONSIDERATIONS upon the American inquiry. See note in Rich	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4790		INQUIRY into the remarks upon the conduct of Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
4791		ADDRESS to the inhabitants of London and Westminster	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
4792		REPLY to the observations of Sir William Howe on a pamphlet entitled Letters to a nobleman	Lond.	1781	USD -	Unknown
4793		SOME considerations on the law of forfeiture for high treason, &c., regarding the Pretender's sons	Lond.	1745	USD -	Unknown
4794	R. Pulteney	PLAN of reunion between Great Britain and her colonies	Lond.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4795	WALKER (Maynard Chamb.)	Speech delivered at the Westminster Forum, Nov. 8, 1779	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4796		SUBSTANCE of political debates on his majesty's speech, Nov. 25, 1779	Lond.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4797	DOBBS (Francis)	Letter to Lord North on his propositions in favor of Ireland	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
4798		THE statue of Truth in the garden of allegory	Lond.	-1778	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.