New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera, 55, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 14, 2025 - October 14, 2025
Page Size: 203 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Military

Ordenanzas de S.M. para el Regimen, Disciplina, Subordinacion, y Servicio de sus Exercitos...

Cadiz 1810 Not Available USD 24.00
54 Van Vogt. * Siodmak.

The War Against the Rull * The Third Ear.

New York 1959; 1971 Not Available USD 24.00
55 Hemingway, Ernest

Men Without Women.

New York 1927 Not Available USD 192.00
56 Salinger, J. D

The Catcher in the Rye.

Boston 1951 Not Available USD 156.00
57 Jones, James

WWII. A Chronicle of Soldering.

Np 1975 Not Available Not Sold
58

Firefly Press. Collection of 15 broadside or booklet keepsakes.

Somerville, MA 1980s-2000s Not Available USD 120.00
60 Nansen, Fridtjof

Farthest North.

New York and London, 1897 Not Available USD 72.00
61

The Book of Niagara Falls.

Buffalo 1836; 1852 Not Available USD 72.00
62

Traveling Map of the Western States.

Cincinnati, 1868 Not Available USD 60.00
63 Armstrong, Louis

Best Wishes to F.

Np nd Not Available USD 60.00
64

British Flowering Plants.

London 1914 Not Available USD 132.00
65 Terhune, Albert Payson

The Critter and Other Dogs.

New York and London 1936 Not Available USD 156.00
66

Jack the Giant Killer.

New York -1932 Not Available Not Sold
67

Cinderella and Other Tales.

New York -1933 Not Available USD 72.00
68 (Disney, Walt)

Taylor, Deems.

New York 1940 Not Available USD 60.00
69

Collection of 30 Pieces of Typewriter Ephemera.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 36.00
70 Hawthorne.

Hawthorne. Complete Works.

Boston 1884-89 Not Available USD 270.00
71

World Champions Boston Celtics.

Boston [1962] Not Available USD 84.00
71a Marquis De Sade

Oeuvres Completes Du Marquis De Sade.

Paris 1967 Not Available Not Sold
72

Pair of old ledgers with a profusion of mounted newspaper clippings, mostly sports related.

Vp 1930s-40s Not Available USD 36.00
72a

Group of 8 Trade Catalogs.

Vp Vd Not Available Not Sold
73 La Fontaine, Jean

Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon.

Paris 1825 Not Available USD 36.00
74 Natural History

African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 96.00
75

Children's. Group of 10 19th Century Titles.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 60.00
76

A New and Universal Geographical Grammer by Jedidiah Morse.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 156.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.