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
106

India & Oman. Meister.

Vp (1983); (1988) Not Available USD 60.00
107

Book Reference. Group of 15 volumes.

Vp vd Not Available USD 48.00
108

Fine Press. Group of 8 volumes of bibliography and reference.

Vp vd Not Available USD 108.00
110

Travel. Group of 10 volumes.

Vp vd Not Available USD 84.00
111 Hemingway, Ernest

Green Hills of Africa.

New York 1935 Not Available USD 156.00
112 Bewick, Thomas

A General History of Quadrupeds.

Newcastle Upon Tyne 1824 Not Available USD 108.00
113 (Bewick, Thomas)

Thomson, David Croal.

London 1882 Not Available USD 120.00
114

Moore's Irish Melodies.

London 1846 Not Available USD 48.00
115 Stevens, Henry

Ptolemy's Geography.

London 1908 Not Available USD 36.00
116

Group of about 30 newspapers, including the National Mirror, National Examiner, National Informer, Rampage and others.

Vp 1970s Not Available USD 60.00
117 [Cooper, James Fenimore]

The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757.

Philadelphia 1826 Not Available USD 168.00
118 Berniera, Giovanni Angelo

L'Ezechia re di Giuda, Opera Politica Morale...8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; joints split, some margins stained, generally sound.

Utrecht al Reno 1706 Not Available USD 36.00
119 Lossing, Benson J

Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States.

Hartford or Philadelphia 1866-68; 1895 Not Available USD 60.00
120

Civil War. Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.

Washington 1863 Not Available USD 60.00
121 Elwell, Newton W

Colonial Furniture and Interiors.

Boston 1896 Not Available Not Sold
122 Wright, Frank Lloyd

The Architectural Forum.

New York 1938 Not Available USD 48.00
123 Salmon, William.

Polygraphice: or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Guilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying, and Perfuming.

London 1680 Not Available USD 330.00
124

Counter Culture. Doodle Bug.

American 1980s: 1967 Not Available USD 36.00
125

Photograph Album of India.

India 19th-century Not Available USD 36.00
126

Art. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
127 Hall, Hon. Judge

Letters from the West; containing Sketches of Scenery, Manners, and Customs...of the United States.

London 1828 Not Available USD 60.00
128 [Boswell, James].

The Speeches, Arguments, and Determinations of the Right Honourable The Lords of Council and Session in Scotland...By A Barrister At Law.

London 1767 Not Available USD 24.00
129 Malamud, Bernard

The Natural.

London 1963 Not Available USD 228.00
134 Vidal, Gore

Myra Breckinridge.

Boston 1968 Not Available USD 108.00
135

The Sons of songs nu Noel Mayne.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 24.00
  • 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.