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
| 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 | USD 300.00 |
| 125 | (Jones, Owen) | The Victoria Psalter. |
[London | Circa 1861-62 | Not Available | USD 1,440.00 |
| 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 | USD 144.00 |
| 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 | USD 228.00 |
| 128 | Keeler, Charles | A Season's Sowing. Hand-illuminated decorations by Louise Keeler, highlighted with gold. |
San Francisco | 1899 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
| 129 | (Kent, Rockwell) [Squires, Frederick]. | Architec-Tonics: The Tales of Tom Thumtack Architect. Illustrated by Kent. |
New York | 1914 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 |
| 130 | Kerouac, Jack | Big Sur. |
New York, | 1962 | Not Available | USD 204.00 |
| 131 | King, Jessie M | The Little White Town of Never Weary. |
London, | [1917] | Not Available | USD 96.00 |
| 132 | Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book. 16 color illustrations by Maurice and Edward Detmold, text within decorated margins. |
New York | 1913 | Not Available | USD 204.00 |
| 133 | (Knie, Rolf) | Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated. |
(Switzerland) | nd | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 134 | (Knowle, Reginald L) Balzac, Honore de. | Contes Choisis. Original ink cover design by Knowles. |
London | 1913 | Not Available | USD 132.00 |
| 135 | Lamartine, Alphonse de | Oeuvres Complete. Edition Nouvelle. Engraved plates. 4 volumes. |
Paris | 1834 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 136 | Lancaster, Hewes | The One & The Other. |
Boston, | 1912 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 137 | Brown, Francis H. * Hewitt, H. D. | Pride Polka * Mermaid Polka. Together 2 hand-colored pictorial sheet music covers. |
New York | 1850s | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 138 | Lloyd, John Uri | The Right Side of the Car. Illustrations on Japan vellum by Augustus Knapp. |
Boston | 1897 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 139 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. |
Boston | 1858 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 140 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Evangeline. Illustrated, including chromolithograph plates by Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. |
Boston and New York | 1897 | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 141 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | The Song of Hiawatha. Illustrations from photographs by Grace Chandler H+C4orn. |
London | 1912 | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 142 | Lowell, Percival | Occult Japan or The Way of the Gods. Illustrated. |
Boston and New York | 1895 | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 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 | USD 24.00 |
| 144 | Lurine, Louis, | et. al. Les Rues de Paris. Paris Ancien et Moderne. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Tall |
Paris | 1844 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
| 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 | USD 228.00 |
| 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 | USD 60.00 |
| 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 | USD 48.00 |
| 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 | USD 570.00 |
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df7dd9ac-f0d0-4cb3-a44d-2731758530e4.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Plato. [<i>Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera</i>], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/c40bad29-8cb5-4347-a0fd-5361d39e84a5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b7fdee12-4803-4d32-9330-a5729091cb92.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> Powell (Anthony). [<i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000")
![<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/a06cc0dd-7619-45e9-b155-5ad75ed7b2e5.png "<b>Forum, Jan. 29:</b> 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")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/7f9e9df2-b83a-40aa-a1b7-a535a02705d5.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 72. Edwards (George). <i>A Natural History of Uncommon Birds…</i> [and] <i>Gleanings of Natural History,</i> 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/1832c377-f148-4e66-ba22-33bef01d81a7.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 236. <i>A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…,</i> By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000")
![<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/df958814-0689-4876-8b73-cfe5c0c6ad24.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Jan. 28:</b> Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). <i>Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,</i> [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800")
![<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9d2762bc-9f26-47ef-96de-1c28070e19f6.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Jan. 27:</b> [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.")