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
50 (Bradley, Will)

[Russell, George]. The Earth Breath and Other Poems by A. E. Title and cover by Bradley.

New York and London, [1897] Not Available USD 144.00
51 Breasted, James Henry

A History of Egypt. Illustrated, including folding map. Tall

New York 1905 Not Available USD 168.00
52 Brunelleschi, Umberto

Lithograph from L'Estampe Moderne. Pochoir print with hand-coloring.

Paris 1927 Not Available USD 240.00
53 Brunelleschi, Umberto

Lithograph from L'Estampe Moderne. Pochoir print with hand-coloring.

Paris 1927 Not Available USD 144.00
54 Cable, George W

Old Creole Days. 2 volumes * The Grandissimes. Together 3 volumes. Illustrated. Large

New York 1897; 1899 Not Available USD 120.00
55 [Carpenter, Edward]

Towards Democracy. [4], 119 pages. Small

London 1883 Not Available USD 96.00
55a Carroll.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking Glass. Together 2 volumes. Illustrated by John Tenniel.

London 1927; 1928 Not Available USD 780.00
56 Catalogue of the Books

and List of Plays in the Private Collection of Alfred J. Cox. Lithograph title page. Over 200 pages completed in ink or pencil. Thick

Chicago, Late 19th-century Not Available USD 300.00
57 Cave, Henry W

Golden Tips. A Description of Ceylon and its great Tea Industry. Illustrations from photographs.

London 1900 Not Available USD 48.00
58 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Fourth Edition, Corrected. 28 engraved plates after Francis Hayman. 4 volumes.

London 1770 Not Available USD 240.00
59 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Frontispieces, 32 engraved plates. 2 volumes.

Antwerp 1719 Not Available USD 660.00
60 The Chap-Book

Group of 16 issues, as listed below. Illustrated.

Chicago 1895-95 Not Available USD 96.00
61 Churchill, Winston

From London to Ladysmith. Illustrated, including folding maps.

London 1900 Not Available USD 108.00
62 Conrad, Joseph

Youth and Two Other Stories.

New York 1903 Not Available USD 168.00
63 Coquille D'Oeif Binding

Genet, Jean. Querelle de Brest.

[Paris], 1947 Not Available USD 960.00
64 Crane, Walter

Kunst en Samenleving. Naar Walter Crane's Claims of Decorative Art in het Nederlandsch Bewerkt door Jan Veth. Tweede Herziene Druk. Woodcut vignettes by G. W. Dijsselhof.

Amsterdam 1903 Not Available USD 60.00
65 Crane, Walter

Columbia's Courtship. 12 color chromolithograph plates by Crane.

Boston 1892 Not Available USD 96.00
66 (Cruikshank, George) [Cowper, William].

The Diverting History of John Gilpin. Six wood-engraved illustrations by Cruikshank. Square

London 1828 Not Available USD 60.00
67 Dacre, Barbarina

Lady. Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems. 2 volumes.

London 1821 Not Available USD 132.00
68 [Dana, Richard Henry.]

Two Years Before the Mast; A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.

New York 1840 Not Available USD 144.00
69 Bridges, Robert.

Now in Wintry Delights. 32 pages. Thin large

Oxford 1903 Not Available USD 156.00
70 De Tours, Constant

Voyage d'un Petit Parisien. De Paris a la Mer. Illustrated. Large

Paris, Circa 1900 Not Available USD 144.00
71

Group of 7 volumes, as listed below. Most illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 348.00
72

Group of 20 volumes. Most illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 540.00
73

Group of 12 volumes. Most illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 330.00
  • 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.
  • 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