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
4995		M'FINGAL: a modern epic poem, in four cantos	Hartford		USD -	Unknown
4996		POEM on divine revelation: being an exercise delivered at the commencement at Nassau Hall, Sept 28, 1774	Philad.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4997		POOR man's advice to his poor neighbors: a ballad to the tune of Chevy Chase	N. Y.	1774	USD -	Unknown
4999	Philip Freneau	VOYAGE to Boston: a poem	Philad.	1775	USD -	Unknown
5000		THE Patriots of North America: a sketch	N. Y.	1775	USD -	Unknown
5000a		WINTER displayed: a poem, describing the season in all its stages and vicissitudes, &c.	N. Y.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5001	MARKOE (Peter)	The Times: a poem	Philad.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5002		THE triumph of infidelity: a poem. Printed in the world		1788	USD -	Unknown
5003	FRANCIS (Benjamin)	The conflagration: a poem on the last day	N. Y.	1789	USD -	Unknown
5003		DEFENCE of the Rockingham party in their late coalition with Lord North	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5004	BRUNET	Manuel du libraire, et de l'Amateur de livres	Paris	1843	USD -	Unknown
5005		NINTH report of commissioners of London and Holyhead road		1833	USD -	Unknown
5006	TYRRELL (Henry)	History of the war with Russia	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
5007		FREDERIC II., Roi de Prusse...	Lond.	1755	USD -	Unknown
5008	COBDEN (Edward)	Persuasive to chastity: a sermon	Lond.	1748	USD -	Unknown
5009	CICERO	Preface to Olivet's edition	Par.	1740	USD -	Unknown
5010		LIBELS. Warrants issued by the Secretaries of State, from 1662 to 1763	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
5011	WEBB (Philip Carteret)	Account of a copper table containing two inscriptions in the Greek and Latin tongues, discovered 1732, near Heraclea, in the Bay of Tarentum	Lond.	1760	USD -	Unknown
5012	CHAWORTH (Mr., and Lord Byron)	Circumstantial account of a late unhappy affair which happened at the Star and Garter Tavern Hotel, Pall-Mall, Jan. 26, 1765	Lond.	1765	USD -	Unknown
5013		ANALYSIS of a general map of the middle British colonies, the country of the confederate Indians	Philad.	1755	USD -	Unknown
5014		PYNSENT'S ghost (a parody on the celebrated ballad of William and Margaret)	Lond.	1766	USD -	Unknown
5015	SALMON (Thomas, rector of Mepsal, in Co. Bedford)	Proposal to perform music in perfect and mathematical proportions, &c.	Lond.	1688	USD -	Unknown
5016	WEBB (P. C.)	Short account of Danegeld	Lond.	1756	USD -	Unknown
5018	MASSIE (J.)	Representation concerning the knowledge of commerce as a national concern	Lond.	1760	USD -	Unknown
5019	MASSIE (J.)	Further observations concerning the foundling hospital, &c.	Lond.	1759	USD -	Unknown
5020		SUGAR. The art of making sugar, art of fermenting molasses and scums, &c., for rum	Lond.	1757	USD -	Unknown
5021		INCHIQUIN, The Jesuit's letters during a late residence in the United States of America, &c.	N. Y.	1810	USD -	Unknown
5022	LAFFAN (Jas.)	Political arithmetic of the population, commerce, and manufactures of Ireland	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5023		SHORT view of the proposals made for the final adjustment of the commercial system of Great Britain and Ireland		1785	USD -	Unknown
5024	STAIR (John, Earl of)	Comparative state of public revenues	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5025		DEFENCE of opposition with respect to their conduct of Irish affairs	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5026		ARRANGEMENT with Ireland considered	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5027	O'BRIEN (Sir Lucius)	Letters concerning the trade and manufactures in Ireland	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5028		RESOLUTIONS of England and Ireland relative to a commercial intercourse between the two kingdoms	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5029		PRESENT politics of Ireland: Hutchinson's letter, Parliamentary discussions, Laffan's observations, &c.	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5030		COPY of the judgment of Judge Mansfield in the king against William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5031	M. Dawes	DEFORMITY of the doctrine of libels, with a view to the case of the dean of St. Asaph	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5032		PROCEEDINGS at Castlebar trial of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq.	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5033		DEFENCE of Warren Hastings	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5034		QUEBEC. Observations and. reflections on an act passed 1774	Lond.	1781	USD -	Unknown
5035	PAINE (Thomas, M. A.)	Thoughts on the Peace, and the probable advantages thereof to the United States of America	Philad.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5036	DAWES (M.)	Nature and extent of Supreme Power	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5037		CIRCULAR letter from George Washington to William Greene, Esq.	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5038	HODGSON (William)	The commonwealth of reason	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5039	BISHOP (Abraham)	Connecticut Republicanism: an oration on the extent and power of political delusion, delivered at New Haven		1800	USD -	Unknown
5040	GALLATIN (Albert)	Views of the public debt, receipts, &c.	N. Y.	1800	USD -	Unknown
5041		BRIEF statement of opinions given in the board of commissioners, &c.	Philad.	1806	USD -	Unknown
5042		DESULTORY reflections on the new political aspects of public affairs in the United States of America since the commencement of the war, 1799	N. Y.	1800	USD -	Unknown
5043		A LETTER to General Hamilton, occasioned by his letter to President Adams	No place		USD -	Unknown
5044		ANSWER to a clandestine address to the electors of New York	No place		USD -	Unknown
5046		THE Carrier of the Political Index to his patrons, with the compliments of the season (in verse)	Newb.	1814	USD -	Unknown
5047		ADDRESS to the electors of the State of New York, by the Republican members of the legislature	Alb.	1814	USD -	Unknown
5048		A CANDID estimate of the ministers'abilities	Lond.	1782	USD -	Unknown
5049		LETTER to the independent electors of Westminster, in the interest of Lord Hood and Sir Cecil Wray		1784	USD -	Unknown
5050		FULL account of the proceedings in Westminster Hall, Feb. 14, 1784	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5051		POLITICAL letters written in March and April, 1784	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5052		LETTERS of an Englishman, in which the principles and conduct of the Rockingham party are displayed	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5054		GENUINE speeches in the H. of Commons, on address of his majesty's speech, Jan. 24, 1786	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5055		CONSIDERATIONS for the establishment of a Regency	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5056		CONSIDERATIONS Idem	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5057		DEBATE on the subject of a Regency: speeches of Pitt, Fox, and others	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5058		TRANSLATION of such parts of the Rolls of Parliament as are referred to in the schedule annexed to the report of the committee appointed to search for precedents, &c.	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5059		SOLEMN appeal to the citizens of Great Britain and Ireland upon the present emergency	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5060		MINUTES of Warren Hastings and Philip Francis, Esquires	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5061		REPORT from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, &c.	Lond.	1789	USD -	Unknown
5062		ANSWER to Mr. De Lolme's observations on the late national embarrassment. By Neptune	Lond.	1789	USD -	Unknown
5063		MAJOR SCOTT'S charge against Edmund Burke, Feb. 6,1789	Lond.	1789	USD -	Unknown
5064		LETTER to the most insolent man alive, answered	Lond.	1789	USD -	Unknown
5065		SPEECH of Henry Grattan on the reagitation of the subject of tithes, April 11, 1788	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5066		EXAMINATION of the various charges exhibited against Aaron Burr, Esq.	Philad.	1803	USD -	Unknown
5067		TRANSACTIONS of the society of Dutchess County for the promotion of agriculture, with select essays on rural economy	Poughkeepsie	1807	USD -	Unknown
5068	PAINE (Thomas)	Letter to the people of France and the French armies, on the event of the 18th fructidor and its consequences	Lond.	1798	USD -	Unknown
5069		CONCISE view of the late proceedings of the leaders of the Clintonian party in New York and Albany, for the suppression of the Merchants' Bank	N. Y.	1804	USD -	Unknown
5070		SUPPLEMENT to the Albany Register, April 20,1813: Address to the Republican citizens of New York	Albany	1813	USD -	Unknown
5071		CONGRATULATORY epistle to the redoubtable "Peter Porcupine," on his complete triumph over the once towering but fallen and despicable faction in the United States: a poem, &c.	Philad.	1796	USD -	Unknown
5072		LETTERS of Marcus and Philo Cato, addressed to De Witt Clinton, mayor of New York		1810	USD -	Unknown
5073		REPORT of the commissioners appointed by the senate and assembly of the State of New York	N. Y.	1811	USD -	Unknown
5074		NARRATIVE of the celebrated Dyde Supper	N.Y.	1811	USD -	Unknown
5075	MR. B. P.	PORTER'S speech on internal improvements		1819	USD -	Unknown
5076		HILLIARD (Isaac), The federal pye (inverse). May 1803	Danbury	1804	USD -	Unknown
5077		LETTER of the Duke of Richmond, in answer to the queries proposed by a committee of correspondence in Ireland on parliamentary reform	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5078		LETTER on parliamentary representation, in which triennial and septennial parliaments are considered	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5079		AUTHENTIC copy of the Duke of Richmond's bill on parliamentary reform	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5080		SOME thoughts on parliamentary reform, &c.	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5081		SPEECH of Sir Thomas Broughton, at the meeting held at Stafford	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5082		DEBATE on the motion of William Pitt to bring in a bill to amend the representation of the people of England, April 18, 1785	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5083		CORRECT list of those members who voted with Hon. W. Pitt, &c.	Lond.	1785	USD -	Unknown
5084		SUBSTANCE of the charge of mismanagement in his majesty's naval affairs in 1781	Lond.	1782	USD -	Unknown
5085		THE ministerialist		1783	USD -	Unknown
5086		DEFENCE of the conduct of the court of Portugal	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5087		POLITICAL memoirs, or a view of some of the first operations of the war after the French notification, as they were regarded by foreigners	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5088		DRECHSLERI (Volf.), De Saracenis et Turcis chronicon: item, de origine et progressu et fine Mahometi, et quadruplici reprobatione prophetiae ejus Joannis Galensis, Angli, liber	Argent.	1550	USD -	Unknown
5089		St. EUSTATIUS, Explanation of the case relating to the capture of	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5090		OBSERVATIONS on the last debate upon the Dehly negotiations and the impeachment of Mr. Hastings	Lond.	1786	USD -	Unknown
5091	DOBBS (Francis)	Thoughts on the present mode of taxation in Great Britain, the ruin that leads to it, and the way to avert it	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5092		Parliamentary opinions of Lord Mansfield, Sir Dudley Rider, Mr. Charles Yorke, &c.	Lond.	1788	USD -	Unknown
5093	STAIR (John, Earl of)	Argument to prove that it is the indispensable duty of the creditors of the public to insist that government do forthwith bring forward the consideration of the state of the nation	Lond.	1783	USD -	Unknown
5094		EXAMINATION of Mr. Pitt's plan for diminishing the public debts by means of a sinking fund	Lond.	1787	USD -	Unknown
5095		EIGHTH report of the commissioners appointed to examine, take, and state the public accounts of the kingdom	Lond.	1784	USD -	Unknown
5096	STAIR (John, Earl of)	State of the public debts, and annual interest, &c.	Lond.	1783	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.