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
4898		CONSIDERATIONS on an Act of the legislature of Virginia	Philad.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4899		COMMERCIAL conduct of the United States of America considered, and the true interest thereof, &c.	N. Y.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4900	Philaeni	STRICTURES on the landed and commercial interest of the United States for 1786	N. Y.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4901		REFLECTIONS on the policy and necessity of encouraging the commerce of the citizens of the United States of America, &c.	N. Y.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4902		INQUIRY into the principles on which a Commercial system for the United States of America should be founded, &c.	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4903		ACT for regulating elections, together with an Act for the regulating of Town meetings	N. Y.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4904		ADDRESS to an assembly of the friends of American manufacturers	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4905	SMITH (Samuel Stanhope, D.D., V. P. of the College of New Jersey)	Essay on the causes and variety of complexion and figure in the human species	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4906		EXAMINATION into the leading principles of the Federal Constitution proposed by the late convention held at Philadelphia, &c.	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4907		OBSERVATIONS on Government	N. Y.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4908		BY-LAWS, resolutions, and orders adopted by the New York Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 18,1787	N. Y.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4909	WILSON (Jas.)	WILSON (Jas.), Speech of	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4910		CONSTITUTION of the Free and Accepted Masons in the State of New York	N. Y.	1789	USD -	Unknown
4911	POELLNITZ (F. C. H. B.)	Essay on agriculture	N.Y.	1790	USD -	Unknown
4912	BUCKNER (Samuel)	The American sailor: a treatise on practical seamanship, &c.	Newport, R. I.	1790	USD -	Unknown
4913		REPORT of the Secretary of State on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights	N. Y.	1790	USD -	Unknown
4914		ADDRESS of the people of Great Britain to the inhabitants of America	Lond.	1775	USD -	Unknown
4915	HILHOUSE (William)	Dissertation in answer to a late lecture on the political state of America, read at New Haven, Jan. 12, 1789	New Haven	1789	USD -	Unknown
4916		THE Resurrection of Laurent Ricci, or a true and exact history of the Jesuits	Philad.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4917		OBSERVATIONS on the agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of the United States, in a letter to a member of Congress	N. Y.	1789	USD -	Unknown
4918		OBSERVATIONS on the new constitution, and on the federal and State conventions	N. Y.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4919		VERMONTERS unmasked, or some of their evil conduct made manifest from facts too glaring to be denied, and many of them too criminal to be justified. June 10,1782	N. Y.	1782	USD -	Unknown
4919a		ESSAYS upon the making of saltpetre and gunpowder	N. Y.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4919b	FuLLER (Timothy, A. M., pastor of the church of Princeton)	Remarks on that part of the strictures on Mr. Thacher's pamphlet which relates to the controversy between Mr. Fuller and the people of Princeton, &c.	Bost.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4919c		STRICTURES on a pamphlet entitled "A friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions			USD -	Unknown
4920		ADDRESS to the people of the State of New York	N. Y.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4921		NOTES on farming	N. Y.	1787	USD -	Unknown
4922		PRESERVATIVE against the doctrine of fate, occasioned by reading Mr. Jonathan Edwards against free will, &c.	Bost.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4923		MACPHERSON'S Letters, &c.	Philad.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4924		(A LETTER.) London, May 25, 1770			USD -	Unknown
4925	S. Mather	AN attempt to show that America must have been known to the ancients	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4926		A MINISTERIAL catechism	Bost.	1771	USD -	Unknown
4927		A LETTER to the Rev. Andrew Croswell	Bost.	1771	USD -	Unknown
4928		APPEAL to the public in behalf of Samuel Vaughan, Esq., narrative of his negotiation with the Duke of Grafton, &c.	Lond.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4929		REFUTATION of a false aspersion first thrown out upon Samuel Vaughan, Esq., in the Public Ledger, Aug. 23, 1769	Lond.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4930		TRIAL of W. Wemms, J. Hartegan, W. McCauley, and others, soldiers in his majesty's 29th regiment of foot, for the murder of Crispus Attacks, Samuel Gray, and others	Bost.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4931		FRIENDLY address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions	N. Y.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4932		THE other side of the question, or a defence of the liberties of North America	N. Y.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4933	SCOTT,(Rev. Wm., D. D.)	O tempora! O mores! or a New Year's gift for a prime minister	Philad.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4934		VIEW of the controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies, &c.	N. Y.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4935		FULL vindication of the measures of Congress from the calumnies of their enemies	N. Y.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4936		ADDRESS to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America on slave-keeping	Philad.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4937	MAUDUIT (Israel)	Case of the dissenting ministers, addressed to the lords spiritual and temporal	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4938		VOTES and proceedings of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, in town meeting assembled, Nov. 5 and 18, 1773	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4939		THE Appendix; or some observations on the expediency of the petition of the Africans living in Boston, &c.	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4940		DISSERTATION on the rise, progress, views, strength, interests, and characters of the two parties, the Whigs and Tories	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4941	RUSH (Benjamin, M.D.)	Experiments and observations on the mineral waters of Philadelphia, Abington, and Bristol, in Pennsylvania	Philad.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4942		VOTES and proceedings of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, in town meeting assembled	Bost.	1772	USD -	Unknown
4943		REPRESENTATIONS of Governor Hutchinson and others	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4944		ESSAY on the slavery and commerce of the human species	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
4945	ROBIN (Abbe)	New travels through North America	Philad.	1783	USD -	Unknown
4946		NEW system of philosophy, or the Newtonian hypothesis examined by an American	Poughkeepsie	1783	USD -	Unknown
4947	HUTCHINSON (Thos.)	Historical narrative and Topographical description of Louisiana and West Florida, &c.	Philad.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4948	F. Viator	REPLY to remarks on a late pamphlet, entitled "A vindication of Governor Parr and his council	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4949		A LETTER from Phocion to the considerate citizens of New York on the politics of the day	N. Y.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4950		SECOND letter from Phocion to the considerate citizens of New York	N. Y.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4951		NOTES on the establishment of a money unit and of a coinage for the United States		1784	USD -	Unknown
4952		ARGUMENTS and judgment in the Mayor's Court of the city of New York in a cause between Elizabeth Rutgers and Joshua Washington	N. Y.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4954	DEANE (Silas)	An address to the free and independent citizens of the United States of North America	Hartford	1784	USD -	Unknown
4955		CIRCULAR Letter, addressed to the State Societies of the Cincinnati by the general meetings at	Philadelphia	1784	USD -	Unknown
4956		EUROPEAN traveller in America, contained in three letters to his friend in London	Hartford	1785	USD -	Unknown
4957		OPINIONS on interesting subjects of public law and commercial policy arising from American independence		1785	USD -	Unknown
4958		SEASONABLE address of a Militia man to those of his fraternity on a prospect of peace	Lond.	1761	USD -	Unknown
4959		REMARKS on scurrility and oppression	Phila.	1769	USD -	Unknown
4960	Thomas Hutchinson	CONSIDERATIONS for lowering the value of gold coin within the province of Massachusetts Bay	Bost.	1761	USD -	Unknown
4961		MEMORIAL containing a summary view of Facts with their authorities in answer to the observations sent by the English ministry to the courts of Europe	N. Y.	1757	USD -	Unknown
4962		LETTER relating to a medium of trade in the province of Massachusetts Bay	Bost.	1740	USD -	Unknown
4963		INQUIRY into the state of the Bills of Credit of the province of Massachusetts Bay, New England	Bost.	1743	USD -	Unknown
4964	HERBERT (Noah)	Second address to the members of the Episcopal separation in New England	Bost.	1751	USD -	Unknown
4965	SMITH (William)	General idea of the College of Mirania	N.Y.	1753	USD -	Unknown
4966		REVIEW of the military operations in North America from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, 1753	N. Y.	1770	USD -	Unknown
4967		ANOTHER high road to Hell	Bost.	1768	USD -	Unknown
4968		VINDICATION of the Bp. of Landaff's sermon, &c.	N. Y.	1767	USD -	Unknown
4969	TILLARY (James)	Anniversary Oration before the society of Blackfriars	N. Y.	1789	USD -	Unknown
4970	Mr. Lind	ANSWER to the declaration of the American congress	Lond.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4971		TRUE interest of America impartially stated in certain strictures on a pamphlet entitled	Phila.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4972	SHARPE (Granville)	Declaration of the people's natural right to a share in the legislature		1774	USD -	Unknown
4973		Two Congresses cut up; or, a few remarks and resolutions of the continental congress at Philadelphia, September, and Cambridge, 1774	Bost.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4974	DAVENPORT (John)	Discourse about civil government in a new plantation			USD -	Unknown
4975	HANCOCK (John)	An oration at Boston, Mar. 5, 1774, commemorative of the bloody tragedy of Mar. 5, 1770	Bost.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4976	BERNARD (Governor)	Select letters on the trade and government in America, and the principles of law and polity applied to the American colonies in 1763, '64, '65, '66, '67, and '68	Lond.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4977		ANSWER to the inquiry, why are you a dissenter from the Church of England, &c.	Bost.	1773	USD -	Unknown
4978	A. W., farmer	THE congress canvassed, or an examination into the conduct of the delegates at their grand convention held in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1774	Bost.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4979		DIALOGUE between a Southern Delegate and his spouse		1774	USD -	Unknown
4980		COMPLETE and accurate account of the very important debate on the motion made by D. Parker Coke, M. P. for Nottingham	Lond.	1782	USD -	Unknown
4980a		ANSWER to that part of the narrative of Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Clinton which relates to the conduct of Lieut.-Gen. Cornwallis during the campaign in North America	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
4981		CASE of Peter du Calvert, of Montreal, in the Province of Quebeck: account of his long imprisonment, &c.	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
4982		OBSERVATIONS on the articles of confederation of the thirteen United States of America	N.Y.	1781	USD -	Unknown
4983		OBSERVATIONS on the American revolution. Published according to a resolution of Congress	Philad.	1779	USD -	Unknown
4984		REPORT of commissioners for settling a cartel for the exchange of prisoners		1779	USD -	Unknown
4985		A TOPOGRAPHICAL description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, comprehending the rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Scioto, Cherokee, &c.	Lond.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4986		(SPEECH.) TO the supporters of American freedom and independence in the State of New York	N. Y.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4987		AFFECTIONATE Address to the inhabitants of the British colonies in America	N. Y.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4988		COLLECTION of papers that have been published at different times relating to the proceedings of his majesty's commissioners	N. Y.	1778	USD -	Unknown
4989		MILITIA act passed by the Assembly of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, &c.		1776	USD -	Unknown
4990		WHAT think ye of the Congress now? or an inquiry how far the Americans are bound to abide by and execute the decisions of the late Congress	N. Y.	1776	USD -	Unknown
4991		CORRESPONDENCE between his Excellency Sir H. Clinton and Lieut.-Gen. Earl Cornwallis	N. Y.	1781	USD -	Unknown
4992		REPLY to the observations of Sir William Howe on a pamphlet entitled "Letters to a nobleman," &c.	Lond.	1780	USD -	Unknown
4993	SLENDER (Robert, stocking weaver)	Journey from Philadelphia to New York	Philad.	1788	USD -	Unknown
4994	DEXTER (Samuel)	DEXTER (Samuel), Poems	N. Y.	1790	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.