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
718		CANADA:--Warburton's conquest of Canada	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
719	Wilson (F. A.)	CANADA:--Britain redeemed and Canada preserved	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
720		CANADA:--Canadian scenery			USD -	Unknown
721	CANNING (George)	CANADA:--Memoirs of the life of	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
722	Bell's (R.)	CANADA:--CANNING (George), life of	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
723		CANADA:--CAREY'S (M.) olive branch	Phil.	1815	USD -	Unknown
724		CARICATURES:--Gilray's caricatures			USD -	Unknown
725	Thos. Wright, Esq., and R. H. Evans, Esq.	CARICATURES:--Gilray's A volume of letter-press description, comprising a very amusing political history of the reign of George the Third		1851	USD -	Unknown
726		CARICATURES:--Gilray's A volume of suppressed plates			USD -	Unknown
727		CARICATURES:--A collection of plain and colored			USD -	Unknown
728	CARLETON (R.)	CARICATURES:--Something for everybody	New York	1846	USD -	Unknown
729	CARLETON (Wm.)	CARICATURES:--Valentine McClutchy, The Irish agent	Dublin	1848	USD -	Unknown
730	CARLYLE (Thos.)	CARICATURES:--Heroes and hero worship	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
730a	CARNE (John)	CARICATURES:--Lives of eminent missionaries	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
730b	CARTWRIGHT (Ed.)	CARICATURES:--Letters and sonnets on moral and other interesting subjects	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
730c	CARAY	CARICATURES:--CARAY'S poems			USD -	Unknown
730d		CARICATURES:--CARTER'S ancient architecture of England. Revised and improved by Britton	London		USD -	Unknown
731		CASPAR HAUSER:--An account of a person kept in a dungeon from early childhood to about the age of 17	Bost.	1832	USD -	Unknown
732	Stanhope (Earl)	CASPAR HAUSER:--Facts relating to Caspar Hauser	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
733		CASPAR HAUSER:--CATO'S letters, or essays on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
734		CASPAR HAUSER:--CEBA'S citizen of the republic	N. Y.	1845	USD -	Unknown
735		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Central America, Tigre Island, &c.		1850	USD -	Unknown
736	Barnard (J. G.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with a resume of the geology, climate, &c.	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
737		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Byam's wild life in the interior of Central America	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
738	Byam (G.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Wanderings in some of the western republics of America, and remarks on ship canal through the isthmus	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
739		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Catherwood's (F.) views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan			USD -	Unknown
740	Condamine (Mdlle.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Relation d'un voyage fait dans l'intdrieur de l'Amerique meridionale descendant la riviere des Amazones	Paris	1745	USD -	Unknown
741	Fabens (J. W.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Life on the Isthmus	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
742	Humboldt (Alex. de) and Bonpland (Aime)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the new continent	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
743		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Rockwell's report on the railroad and canal routes between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	Washington	1853	USD -	Unknown
744		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Squier, Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, &c.	New York	1853	USD -	Unknown
745	Stephens (J. L.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
746		CENTRAL AMERICA:--Strangeway's sketch of the Mosquito Shore	Edinb.	1822	USD -	Unknown
747		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CERVANTES'S Persiles and Sigismunda, a northern story	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
748		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CERVANTES'S Don Quixote	Paris	1838	USD -	Unknown
749		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CERVANTES'S Don Quixote de la Manche	London	1725	USD -	Unknown
750		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHAMBERS'S Edinburgh journal	Edinburgh		USD -	Unknown
751		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHAMBERS'S Home book	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
752		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHAMBERS'S Information for the people	Edinburgh	1842	USD -	Unknown
753		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHAMBERS'S Papers for the people	Philadelphia	1855	USD -	Unknown
754		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHAMBERS'S Miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
755	CHANNING (E. T.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Lectures read to the seniors in Harvard College	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
756	CHANNING (Wm. E.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHANNING'S (Wm. E.) works	Boston	1843	USD -	Unknown
757	CHANNING (Wm. E.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHANNING'S (Wm. E.) memoirs	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
758		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHANTICLEER, a thanksgiving story	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
759	CHAFIN (E.H.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--Duties of young men	Boston	1840	USD -	Unknown
760		CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHARLOTTE Temple, and Edward the orphan	London		USD -	Unknown
761	CHASE (L. B.)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--History of the Polk administration	New York	1850	USD -	Unknown
762	CHASE (Hon. Samuel)	CENTRAL AMERICA:--CHASE (Hon. Samuel), Evans's report of the trial of, before the High Court of Impeachment, with appendix	Baltimore	1805	USD -	Unknown
763		CHARADES:--Mayhew's acting charades, a Christmas game	London		USD -	Unknown
764		CHARADES:--CHATEAUBRIAND, History of Atala			USD -	Unknown
764a		CHARADES:--CHATEAUBRIAND, Genius of Christianity	Baltimore	1857	USD -	Unknown
765	CHATTERTON (Thos.)	CHARADES:--CHATTERTON (Thos.), Poetical works	Camb.	1842	USD -	Unknown
766		CHARADES:--Bryant's (J.) observations upon the poems of Thomas Rowley, in which the authenticity of those poems is ascertained	London	1781	USD -	Unknown
767		CHARADES:--Tyrwhitt's (T.) vindication of the appendix to the poems called Rowley's, in reply to the answers of the Dean of Exeter, J. Bryant, &c.	London	1782	USD -	Unknown
768	T. Speght	CHARADES:--CHAUCER'S works, with additions never before in print, a life and glossary	London	1687	USD -	Unknown
769		CHARADES:--CHAUCER'S Canterbury tales	Oxford	1798	USD -	Unknown
770	CHAUCER	CHARADES:--CHAUCER'S Poetical works	London	1852	USD -	Unknown
771	Booth (J. C.)	CHEMISTRY:--Encyclopedia of chemistry--practical and theoretical	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
772	Brande (W. T.)	CHEMISTRY:--Manual of chemistry	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
773	Bridges (Dr.)	CHEMISTRY:--Elementary chemistry	Philadelphia	1847	USD -	Unknown
774		CHEMISTRY:--Bromei's Die chemie	Stuttgart	1854	USD -	Unknown
775	Bernay (A. J.)	CHEMISTRY:--Household chemistry, or rudiments of the science applied to every-day life	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
776		CHEMISTRY:--Chemical nomenclature, tables of, from the French of Lavoiser, Bertholet, &c.	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
777		CHEMISTRY:--Ellis's Chemistry of creation	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
778	Francis (G.)	CHEMISTRY:--Chemical experiments	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
779	Gregory (William)	CHEMISTRY:--Outlines of chemistry	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
780	Griffith (Thos.)	CHEMISTRY:--Chemistry of the four seasons	Philadelphia	1846	USD -	Unknown
781	Knapp (Dr.)	CHEMISTRY:--Chemical technology, or chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures	Philadelphia	1848	USD -	Unknown
782	Kane (R.)	CHEMISTRY:--Elements of chemistry	Dublin	1841	USD -	Unknown
783		CHEMISTRY:--Liebig's Animal chemistry	New York	1849	USD -	Unknown
784		CHEMISTRY:--Chemistry of agriculture and physiology		1842	USD -	Unknown
785		CHEMISTRY:--Morfit & Muckle's chemical and pharmaceutical manipulations, &c.	Philadelphia	1849	USD -	Unknown
786		CHEMISTRY:--Priestly, LL. D., F. R. S. (J.), Experiments and observations on different kinds of air	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
788	Rose (H.)	CHEMISTRY:--Manual of analytical chemistry	London	1831	USD -	Unknown
789		CHEMISTRY:--Soap making, a treatise on	N. Y.	1810	USD -	Unknown
790		CHEMISTRY:--Sturgeon's lectures on electricity	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
791		CHEMISTRY:--Scoffern's Chemistry of common life	Lond.	1858	USD -	Unknown
792		CHEMISTRY:--Tucker's Chemistry	Philadelphia	1819	USD -	Unknown
793	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--CHESTERFIELD (Earl of), Miscellaneous works	London	1779	USD -	Unknown
794	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--CHESTERFIELD (Earl of), Letters	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
795	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--CHESTERFIELD (Earl of), Advice, letters, &c.		1843	USD -	Unknown
796	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--Letters to his son		1774	USD -	Unknown
797	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--CHESTERFIELD (Earl of), Life, speeches, and some of his essays	London	1774	USD -	Unknown
798	CHESTERFIELD (Earl of)	CHEMISTRY:--Man of education, or beauties of Lord Chesterfield	Boston	1801	USD -	Unknown
799	The retired governor of Juan Fernandez	CHILI AND PERU:--Chile and Peru, sixteen years in, from 1822 to 1839	London		USD -	Unknown
800	Frezier (M.)	CHILI AND PERU:--Voyage to the South Sea and along the coast of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712-14	London	1717	USD -	Unknown
801	Hall (Capt. Basil)	CHILI AND PERU:--Journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, &c. &c. 1820-22	Edinburgh	1850	USD -	Unknown
802	Miers (J.)	CHILI AND PERU:--Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts of the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, &c. &c.	London	1826	USD -	Unknown
803	Molina (Gen. J.)	CHILI AND PERU:--Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili	Bologna	1782	USD -	Unknown
804		CHILI AND PERU:--Schmidtmeyer's travels into Chile, over the Andes	Lond.	1824	USD -	Unknown
805		CHINA:--Alexander's costume of China. A series of exquisitely colored plates of costume, scenery, &c.	London		USD -	Unknown
806	Barrow (John)	CHINA:--Travels in China, from Pekin to Canton	Lond.	1806	USD -	Unknown
807	Berncastle (Dr.)	CHINA:--Voyage to China	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
808		CHINA:--China: the history of that great and renowned monarchy	London	1655	USD -	Unknown
809	De Pauw (Mr.)	CHINA:--Philosophical dissertations on the Egyptions and Chinese	London	1795	USD -	Unknown
810	Davies (J. F.)	CHINA:--Chinese: a general description of China and its inhabitants	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
811	Davies (J. F.)	CHINA:--General description of China and its inhabitants	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
812	Forbes (Lieut.)	CHINA:--Five years in China, from 1842 to 1847	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
813		CHINA:--Hue's travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China	London	1856	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.

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.
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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