New England Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books, 546, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 222 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

The Guardian Angel.

Boston 1867 Not Available USD 660.00
27 Hall, S. C.

The Book of Gems. Chaucer to Dryden * ditto. Swift to Burns * ditto. Wordsworth to Tennyson.

London 1866-73 Not Available USD 600.00
28 Cook, Herbert.

Giorgione. Illustrated.

London 1904 Not Available USD 330.00
29 Bland, Schuyler Otis.

The Yorktown Sesquicentennial. Illustrated.

Washington 1932 Not Available USD 300.00
30 Spargo, John.

The Potters and Potteries of Bennington. Illustrated.

Boston 1926 Not Available USD 120.00
31 Rivers, John.

Greuze and His Models. Illustrated. Large

London 1912 Not Available USD 330.00
32 [Boyle, Eleanor Vere].

Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum. By E. V. B.

London 1885 Not Available USD 960.00
33 Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London 1897 Not Available USD 300.00
34 Cook, Mrs. E. T.

Highways and Byways in London. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and F. L. Griggs.

London 1911 Not Available USD 450.00
35

Binding. Oficio Divino...Neuva Edicion.

Paris 1850 Not Available USD 660.00
36 Prideaux, S. T.

An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding. Illustrated.

London 1893 Not Available USD 570.00
37

Bindings. Group of 9 volumes, as listed below. Some illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
38

Group of 5 volumes as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 228.00
38a

Fore-Edge Painting. Tennyson. Maud. New Edition.

London 1864 Not Available USD 450.00
39 Birnbaum, Uriel

Allerlei absonderliche Tiere. 40 color plates on rectos only.

Wien [1926] Not Available USD 144.00
40 Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus.

(Boston 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
41 (Bonnard, Pierre). De Montherlant, Henry.

La Redemption par les Betes. Lithograph illustrations by Bonnard, printed by Fernand Mourlot.

Paris 1959) Not Available USD 120.00
42 Miller, Julia.

Suave Mechanicals. Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume I * ditto. Books Will Speak Plain. Together 2 volumes.

(Ann Arbor) 2013; 2014 Not Available USD 180.00
43 Boucher, Monique

Entropion. 35 etchings by Abdallah Benanieur. Oblong

(Paris 1975 Not Available Not Sold
44 Bradley, Will

Harper's Round Table. Thanksgiving Number. Black, white and red poster.

[New York] 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
45 Bradley, Will

Ault & Wiborg Co. Manufacturers of Lithographic Letter Press Printing Inks. Small poster of 2 porters carrying a basket of flowers.

Chicago, [1899] Not Available USD 48.00
46 (Bradley, Will)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A paraphrase...by Richard Le Gallienne.

New York 1897 Not Available USD 60.00
47 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 8 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
48 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 6 volumes, as listed below. Decorations or bindings by Bradley.

Vp vd Not Available USD 132.00
49 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 8 volumes, as listed below. Decorations or bindings by Bradley.

Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.