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
77 Military

Braxton Bragg General of the Confederacy by Don C. Seitz.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 216.00
78 Bibles

The Holy Bible.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 84.00
79 Burton, Sir Richard F.

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdt.

New York 1937 Not Available USD 36.00
80

Americana. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 48.00
81

Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters.

Philadelphia 1816-17 Not Available USD 36.00
82 Hager, Albert D.

Report on the Geology of Vermont.

Claremont 1861 Not Available USD 72.00
83

Gaceta Diaria de Mexico.

[Mexico City] 1823-26 Not Available USD 1,800.00
84 Fox, George Henry.

Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis.

New York or Philadelphia 1861; 1877 Not Available USD 72.00
85

Bindings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921

Not Available USD 180.00
86 Baum, L. Frank

The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Chicago 1904 Not Available USD 36.00
87 Baum, L. Frank

Ozma of Oz.

Chicago 1907 Not Available USD 108.00
88

Poster of the Arabic alphabet from alif to yaa, each with matching illustrations.

Np nd Not Available USD 36.00
91

Library of 25 volumes pertaining to Asian art and antiquities.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
94 Faulkner, William

The Reivers.

New York 1962 Not Available Not Sold
95

Lithograph. Np: Henry Papprill, nd

Not Available USD 36.00
96 [Skene, James Henry]

The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk; comprising Travels in the Regions of the Lower Danube...By a British Resident of Twenty Years in the East.

London 1853 Not Available USD 132.00
97 Hedin, Sven

Central Asia and Tibet.

London 1903 Not Available USD 84.00
98 Hogarth, William

Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington.

London circa 1726 Not Available USD 36.00
99

Travel. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 156.00
100

Poster. 1776-1943.

Washington 1943 Not Available USD 72.00
101 Greenstein, George

Zombies.

[New York] 2020 Not Available USD 48.00
102

Signed, Limited, etc.. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 120.00
103

Autographs. Farrell, James T.

Np 1950; nd Not Available USD 60.00
104

Printing Reference. Group of 3 volumes, as listed below.

Np vd Not Available USD 24.00
105

Arabia. Group of 6 volumes, as listed below.

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.