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

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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
99 Frankau, Julia

The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 30 color plates with lettered tissue guards, 8 monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations. 2 volumes. Small

London 1911 Not Available USD 144.00
100 Freeman-Mitford, A. B.

The Attache at Peking.

London 1900 Not Available USD 420.00
101 Gerlach, Martin.

Festons und Decorative Gruppen nebst einem Zieralphabete aus Pflanzen und Thieren Jagd-, Touristen und anderen Gerathen. Dritte Verbesserte Auflage.

Wein, Circa 1890s Not Available USD 96.00
102 [Gilman], Charlotte Perkins Stetson

In This Our World. Frontispiece.

Boston 1898 Not Available USD 108.00
103 (Goodhue, Bertram) Delafield, Emily Prime.

Alice in Wonderland. A Play. Cover, illustrations, & end-papers by Goodhue.

New York 1898 Not Available USD 228.00
104 Green, Anna Katharine

Three Thousand Dollars. Illustrated.

Boston 1910 Not Available USD 48.00
105 Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Life of Dante. Portrait, folding plan.

New York 1900 Not Available USD 300.00
106 (Gross, Chaim)

Chaim Gross. Watercolors and Drawings. Text by Alfred Werner. Illustrated. Oblong

New York, 1979 Not Available USD 60.00
107 Guiney, Louise Imogen

The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems.

Boston and New York 1899 Not Available USD 108.00
108 Hartley, Marsden.

Hartley, Marsden. Twenty-Five Poems.

(Paris [1923] Not Available USD 540.00
109

Ferns. 24 leaves. Each with mounted chromolithographed card surrounded by actual samples of ferns. Square

Np 19th-century Not Available USD 180.00
110 Hewlett, Maurice.

The Forest Lovers.

London 1898 Not Available USD 420.00
111 Hohlwein, Ludwig

Tarsoarbeit. H. Schilling & co. Lithograph advertisement. 15 x 8-1/2 inches; some creasing.

Munich, Circa 1920s [100/150] Not Available USD 60.00
112 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Autocrat Of the Breakfast-Table. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 volumes.

Boston and New York 1894 Not Available USD 96.00
113 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Dorothy Q. Illustrations by Howard Pyle.

Boston and New York 1893 Not Available USD 168.00
114 (Homer, Winslow)

Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, By the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856. Lithographed plates, many by Winslow Homer (as an apprentice).

Boston 1856 Not Available USD 108.00
115 Housman, Laurence

Angels & Ministers.

London 1921 Not Available USD 48.00
116 Humphreys, Henry Noel

Sentiments and Similes of Shakespeare. Second Edition. 106 pages chromolithographed throughout in black and gold, including a chromolithographed decorative sectional title in colors.

London 1857 Not Available USD 1,200.00
117

Conspiracy Against Peace. 18 photo-pictorial leaves of the Hungarian Counter Revolution of 1956-57. Oblong

Np, Circa 1957 Not Available USD 132.00
118

Illustrated. Andersen, Hans Christian. Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt.

Vienna 1897 Not Available USD 120.00
119

Group of 8 volumes. Illustrated, including by Rackham, Edwin Abbey & others.

Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
120 James, Rian

Dining in New York. Revised (Second) Edition.

New York, (January 1931) Not Available USD 144.00
121 Japanese Art

The Kokka. An Illustrated Monthly Journal of the Fine and Applied Arts of Japan and Other Eastern Countries. Illustrated, including color plates. Over 200 issues.

Tokyo 1889-1920s Not Available USD 720.00
122 Jewett, Sarah Orne

The Country of Pointed Firs.

Boston and New York 1897 Not Available USD 510.00
123 Jewett, Sarah Orne.

The Country of Pointed Firs. Watercolor illustrations in margins and within text.

Boston and New York 1896 Not Available USD 180.00
  • 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.
  • 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