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
124	Jewett, Sarah Orne	Betty Leicester. A Story for Girls.	Boston and New York	1890	Not Available	Unknown
125	(Jones, Owen)	The Victoria Psalter.	[London	Circa 1861-62	Not Available	Unknown
126	Kay, Robert	The New Perceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue	Newcastle	1801	Not Available	Unknown
127	Keeler, Charles	A Season's Sowing * Elfin Songs of Sunland. Together 2 volumes. Decorations by Louise Keeler.	San Francisco or Berkeley	1899; 1904	Not Available	Unknown
128	Keeler, Charles	A Season's Sowing. Hand-illuminated decorations by Louise Keeler, highlighted with gold.	San Francisco	1899	Not Available	Unknown
129	(Kent, Rockwell) [Squires, Frederick].	Architec-Tonics: The Tales of Tom Thumtack Architect. Illustrated by Kent.	New York	1914	Not Available	Unknown
130	Kerouac, Jack	Big Sur.	New York,	1962	Not Available	Unknown
131	King, Jessie M	The Little White Town of Never Weary.	London,	[1917]	Not Available	Unknown
132	Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book. 16 color illustrations by Maurice and Edward Detmold, text within decorated margins.	New York	1913	Not Available	Unknown
133	(Knie, Rolf)	Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated.	(Switzerland)	nd	Not Available	Unknown
134	(Knowle, Reginald L) Balzac, Honore de.	Contes Choisis. Original ink cover design by Knowles.	London	1913	Not Available	Unknown
135	Lamartine, Alphonse de	Oeuvres Complete. Edition Nouvelle. Engraved plates. 4 volumes.	Paris	1834	Not Available	Unknown
136	Lancaster, Hewes	The One & The Other.	Boston,	1912	Not Available	Unknown
137	Brown, Francis H. * Hewitt, H. D.	Pride Polka * Mermaid Polka. Together 2 hand-colored pictorial sheet music covers.	New York	1850s	Not Available	Unknown
138	Lloyd, John Uri	The Right Side of the Car. Illustrations on Japan vellum by Augustus Knapp.	Boston	1897	Not Available	Unknown
139	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems.	Boston	1858	Not Available	Unknown
140	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	Evangeline. Illustrated, including chromolithograph plates by Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.	Boston and New York	1897	Not Available	Unknown
141	Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	The Song of Hiawatha. Illustrations from photographs by Grace Chandler H+C4orn.	London	1912	Not Available	Unknown
142	Lowell, Percival	Occult Japan or The Way of the Gods. Illustrated.	Boston and New York	1895	Not Available	Unknown
143	Lucas, E. V.	Edwin Austin Abbey. Royal Academician. The Record of His Life and Work. Illustrated. 2 volumes.	New York and London	1921	Not Available	Unknown
144	Lurine, Louis,	et. al. Les Rues de Paris. Paris Ancien et Moderne. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Tall	Paris	1844	Not Available	Unknown
145	Maeterlinck, Maurice	The Blue Bird. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. 25 tipped-in color plates by F. Cayley Robinson.	London,	1911	Not Available	Unknown
146	Maeterlinck, Maurice	The Blue Bird. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. 25 tipped-in color illustrations by F. Cayley Robinson.	New York	1911	Not Available	Unknown
147	(Mannfeld, Bernhard)	Rittershaus, Emil. Rheinlands Sang und Sage. Vierte Auflage. Title and 19 etched plates (6 in color) by Mannfeld.	Bonn	1898	Not Available	Unknown
148	Mennie, Donald	The Grandeur of the Gorges. Illustrated with 50 gravure reproductions of Mennie's photographs of the Yangtze river.	Shanghai	1926	Not Available	Unknown

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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.
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.