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
591	Kidd	BUCCANEERS, PIRATES, HIGHWAYMEN,&c. A full account of the proceedings in relation to Capt. Kidd	London	1701	USD -	Unknown
592		BUCCANEERS, PIRATES, HIGHWAYMEN,&c. Lives of early voyagers and buccaniers	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
593	BUCKINGHAM (J. S.)	BUCCANEERS, PIRATES, HIGHWAYMEN,&c. Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America	London		USD -	Unknown
593a	BUCKINGHAM (J. S.)	BUCCANEERS, PIRATES, HIGHWAYMEN,&c. America--historical, statistic, and descriptive	London		USD -	Unknown
594	Andrews (Captain)	BUENOS AYRES:--Journey from Buenos Ayres through Cordova, Tucuman, and Salta, to Potosi, thence to Arica, Chili, &c.	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
595	Helm's (A. Z.)	BUENOS AYRES:--Travels from Buenos Ayres to Potosi	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
596	Vidal (E. E.)	BUENOS AYRES:--Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Montevideo	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
597		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Asmodeus at large	Philadelphia	1830	USD -	Unknown
598		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--King Arthur, a poem	Philadelphia	1851	USD -	Unknown
599		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Leila, or the siege of Granada	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
600		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Night and morning	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
601		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--The pilgrims of the Rhine	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
602		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Idem	New York	1845	USD -	Unknown
603		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Idem		1854	USD -	Unknown
604		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Zanoni, &c.			USD -	Unknown
605		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Novels, various			USD -	Unknown
606	BULWER (Lady)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Novels, &c.			USD -	Unknown
607	BURDETT (O.)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Elliott family	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
608	BURKE'S (Edmund)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURKE'S (Edmund) Works	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
609	BURKE'S (Edmund)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Correspondence with many eminent persons between 1744 and 1797			USD -	Unknown
610	BURKE'S (Edmund)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Public and domestic life of			USD -	Unknown
611	BURKE'S (Edmund)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Life of By J. Prior	Bond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
612	BURKE'S (Bernard)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Peerage and baronetage of England. A complete family and personal history of all the ennobled personages of England			USD -	Unknown
613	BURN (Major-Gen. of the royal marines)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURN (Major-Gen. of the royal marines), Memoirs of	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
614	BURNET'S (Bishop)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--History of the reformation			USD -	Unknown
615	BURNET'S (Thomas)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Sacred theory of the earth		1726	USD -	Unknown
616	A. Cunningham	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURNS, Complete works of	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
617	R. H. Cronick	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURNS, Poetical works	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
618	Dr. Currie	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURNS, Entire works			USD -	Unknown
619	BURNEY (Miss)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Evelina	New York, London	1832	USD -	Unknown
620	M. L. Davis	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURR (Aaron), Memoirs of	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
621	BURR (Aaron)	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--Robertson's report of the trial of	Philad.	1808	USD -	Unknown
622	S. L. Knapp	BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURR (Aaron), Life of	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
623		BULWER (Sir E. B. L.):--BURTON: or, the sieges	New York	1832	USD -	Unknown
624	Freedley (E. T.)	BUSINESS:--Practical treatise on business; or, how to get, save, spend, give, lend, and bequeath money	Philadelphia	1857	USD -	Unknown
625		BUSINESS:--How to do business	New York	1857	USD -	Unknown
626		BUSINESS:--BURTON'S anatomy of melancholy	London	1651	USD -	Unknown
627	BUSK (H.)	BUSINESS:--The Vestriad, a poem	London	1820	USD -	Unknown
628		BUSINESS:--BUTLER'S Hudibras	London	1847	USD -	Unknown
629		BUSINESS:--BUTLER'S Hudibras	Troy	1806	USD -	Unknown
630	BUTLER	BUSINESS:--BUTLER'S Poetical works	London (Bell)		USD -	Unknown
631		BUSINESS:--BUTLER'S Genuine remains in verse and prose	London	1759	USD -	Unknown
632		BUSINESS:--BUTLER'S Geographia classica	Philad.	1835	USD -	Unknown
633	BUTLER (Mrs. F. A.)	BUSINESS:--Journal	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	Unknown
634		BYNG:--Trial of the Hon. Admiral Byng at a court-martial on board His Majesty's ship St. George, 1756	London	1758	USD -	Unknown
635		BYNG:--BYRDSALL'S history of the Loco-Foco party	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
636	BYRNE (H.)	BYNG:--Twelve years' wanderings in the British colonies	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
637	Byron (Lord)	BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Byron (Lord), Works of	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
638		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Murray's diamond edition			USD -	Unknown
639	Byron	BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Byron's select works	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
640	Byron (Lord)	BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--English bards and Scotch reviewers	London	1810	USD -	Unknown
641		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Byron's Childe Harold	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
642		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Byron and Blessington, Journal of the conversations of			USD -	Unknown
643		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Dallas's recollections of the life of Lord Byron from 1808 to 1814	Philadelphia	1825	USD -	Unknown
644		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Galt's life of Byron	New York	1833	USD -	Unknown
645		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Hobhouse's historical illustrations of Byron's Childe Harold	New York	1818	USD -	Unknown
646	Hunt (Leigh)	BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries	Philadelphia	1828	USD -	Unknown
647		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Medwin's journal of Lord Byron's conversations...			USD -	Unknown
648	Moore (Thos.)	BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Letters and journals of Lord Byron	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
649		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--Byron beauties--gallery of 40 exquisite plates	London		USD -	Unknown
650		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--CABINET of curiosities--natural, artificial, and historical	Hartford	1822	USD -	Unknown
651		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--CABINET of curiosities--annual register, and historical, political, biographical, and miscellaneous chronicle	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
652		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--CAESAR Borgia	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
653		BYRON AND BYRONIANA:--CALABRIA, during a military residence of three years	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
654	Bryant (W. C.)	CALIFORNIA:--What I saw in California	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
656		CALIFORNIA:--Buffinn's six months in the gold regions	Philadelphia	1850	USD -	Unknown
657		CALIFORNIA:--Colton's three years in California	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
658		CALIFORNIA:--Congressional reports on		1851	USD -	Unknown
659	Cutts (J. M.)	CALIFORNIA:--Conquest of California and New Mexico	Philadelphia	1847	USD -	Unknown
660	D'Auteroche (M.)	CALIFORNIA:--Voyage en Californie (1769) et Mexico	Paris	1772	USD -	Unknown
661	D'Auteroche (M.)	CALIFORNIA:--Voyage to California	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
662	Forbes (Alex.)	CALIFORNIA:--History of Upper and Lower California, with an account of the climate, soil, &c. &c.	London	1839	USD -	Unknown
663	Foster (G. G.)	CALIFORNIA:--Gold mines of California	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
664		CALIFORNIA:--Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie	Paris	1767	USD -	Unknown
665	Johnson (P. P.)	CALIFORNIA:--Sights in the gold regions, and scenes by the way	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
666		CALIFORNIA:--Life in California, during a residence of several years in that territory	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
667	Marryatt (F.)	CALIFORNIA:--Mountains and mole-hills, or recollections of a burnt journal in California	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
668		CALIFORNIA:--Report on the geology, topography, &c., of		1850	USD -	Unknown
669	Ringgold (Cad.)	CALIFORNIA:--Series of charts and sailing directions for California		1852	USD -	Unknown
700	Ryan (W. R.)	CALIFORNIA:--Personal adventures in Upper and Lower California	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
701	Parkman (F.)	CALIFORNIA:--California and Oregon trail	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
702	Taylor (B.)	CALIFORNIA:--El Dorado	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
703	Venegas (M.)	CALIFORNIA:--Natural and civil history of California	London	1759	USD -	Unknown
703a		CALIFORNIA:--CALVINI, Opera omnia	Amst.	1667	USD -	Unknown
704	Cralle, editor	CALIFORNIA:--CALHOUN'S works			USD -	Unknown
704a	CAMPBELL	CALIFORNIA:--CAMPBELL'S poetical works	Boston	1832	USD -	Unknown
705		CALIFORNIA:--CAMPBELL'S Theodric and other poems	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
706		CALIFORNIA:--CAMPBELL'S (Mary) poems and tales	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
707	CAMPBELL (W. W.)	CALIFORNIA:--Historical sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
708	Gunning (H.)	CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND:--Reminiscences of the university, town, and county of Cambridge, from the year 1780	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
708a		CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND:--Wilson, Memorabilia Cantabrigia, or account of the colleges at Cambridge	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
709	CAMOENS (Luis de)	CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND:--Lusiad, an epic poem		1778	USD -	Unknown
710	Hogan (J. Sheridan)	CANADA:--Prize essay on Canada	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
711	Bouchette (J.)	CANADA:--Topographical description of Lower Canada, and remarks on Upper Canada, with views, plans, &c.	London	1815	USD -	Unknown
712		CANADA:--Buckingham's Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and other British provinces in North America	London		USD -	Unknown
713		CANADA:--Heriot's (G.) travels through the Canadas, to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
714	Bigsby (Dr. J.)	CANADA:--Shoe and canoe, or pictures of travel in the Canadas	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
715		CANADA:--Report of canal communications in Canada		1832	USD -	Unknown
716	Richardson (M.)	CANADA:--Bight years in Canada	Montreal	1847	USD -	Unknown
717	Smyth (C.)	CANADA:--Sketches in the Canadas			USD -	Unknown

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.

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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.
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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