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
174 Scripps College Press

Cut & Dried. Text in various colors. Illustrated. Narrow

[Claremont, CA], 2004 Not Available Unknown
175 Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

Everyday Butterflies: A Group of Biographies. Illustrated.

Boston and New York 1899 Not Available Unknown
176 Haberly, Loyd.

The Antiquary, A Poem Written in Waterperry Church and Decorated with Designs from the Glass of its Ancient Windows.

Long Crendon, Bucks 1933 Not Available Unknown
177 Shakespeare, William

The Comedies. Illustrations by Edwin Abbey, lettered tissue guards. 4 volumes.

New York, 1895 Not Available Unknown
178 Shakespeare, William

The First

New York 1968 Not Available Unknown
179 Shakespeare, William

[Works]. The Boydell Shakespeare or The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Originally published by John Boydell.

Philadelphia 1874 Not Available Unknown
180

Silver Binding. Letter blotter portfolio.

England 1892-93 Not Available Unknown
181 Smith, Bertha H

Yosemite Legends. Illustrations by Florence Lundborg. Tall

San Francisco 1904 Not Available Unknown
182 Smith, Gertrude

The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Illustrations by Ethel Reed.

Boston 1895 Not Available Unknown
183 Smith, Mrs. W. H.

The Children's Japan. Color illustrations. Square

Tokyo Circa 1910 Not Available Unknown
184 Sotheby, Samuel Leigh

Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton. 2 mounted albumen photographs, facsimile plates.

London 1861 Not Available Unknown
185 Sprague, Isaac

Wayside Flowers and Ferns. Text by The Rev. A. B. Hervey. 10 color chromolithographed botanical plates.

Troy, NY 1887 Not Available Unknown
186 Stoker, Bram

Dracula. The Definitive Edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey,

New York, 1996 Not Available Unknown
187 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Old Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. 2 volumes.

Cambridge 1892 Not Available Unknown
188 The Studio

Volumes 1-49 * General Index for volumes 1-21. Together 50 volumes.

London 1893-1910 Not Available Unknown
189 Symonds, John Addington

Autograph Card Signed J. A. Symonds, to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., thanking them for their recent shipment and ordering another book.

Davos-Plaz, July 22 1878 Not Available Unknown
190 Thaxter, Celia

An Island Garden. Illustrations by Childe Hassam. Large

Boston and New York 1894 Not Available Unknown
191 (Thomson, Hugh).

(Thomson, Hugh). Group of 18 volumes. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Vp vd Not Available Unknown
192 Thomson, Hugh.

Hugh Thomson's Illustrated Fairy Books. Jack the Giant Killer. Color plates by the Author. Square

London and New York [125/175] Not Available Unknown
193 (Thomson, Hugh).

Barrie. The Admirable Chrichton. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson. Large

London [1914] Not Available Unknown
195 (Thomson, Hugh) Sheridan, Richard B.

The School for Scandal. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson.

New York and London [1911] Not Available Unknown
196 (Thomson, Hugh) Barrie, J. M.

Quality Street. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson.

[New York and London] [1913] Not Available Unknown
197 Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Le hamac. Fine etched print.

Np, Circa 1880 [1000/1500] Not Available Unknown
198 Travel

Group of 9 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available Unknown
199 Travel

Group of 15 volumes from the "Spell Series." Illustrated, including folding maps.

New York 1913-23 Not Available Unknown
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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    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.