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

Auction Details

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

Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.