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

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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
174 Scripps College Press

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

[Claremont, CA], 2004 Not Available USD 60.00
175 Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

Everyday Butterflies: A Group of Biographies. Illustrated.

Boston and New York 1899 Not Available USD 168.00
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 USD 390.00
177 Shakespeare, William

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

New York, 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
178 Shakespeare, William

The First

New York 1968 Not Available USD 72.00
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 USD 720.00
180

Silver Binding. Letter blotter portfolio.

England 1892-93 Not Available USD 390.00
181 Smith, Bertha H

Yosemite Legends. Illustrations by Florence Lundborg. Tall

San Francisco 1904 Not Available USD 132.00
182 Smith, Gertrude

The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Illustrations by Ethel Reed.

Boston 1895 Not Available USD 300.00
183 Smith, Mrs. W. H.

The Children's Japan. Color illustrations. Square

Tokyo Circa 1910 Not Available USD 132.00
184 Sotheby, Samuel Leigh

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

London 1861 Not Available USD 240.00
185 Sprague, Isaac

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

Troy, NY 1887 Not Available USD 144.00
186 Stoker, Bram

Dracula. The Definitive Edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey,

New York, 1996 Not Available USD 600.00
187 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Cambridge 1892 Not Available USD 510.00
188 The Studio

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

London 1893-1910 Not Available USD 390.00
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 USD 228.00
190 Thaxter, Celia

An Island Garden. Illustrations by Childe Hassam. Large

Boston and New York 1894 Not Available USD 570.00
191 (Thomson, Hugh).

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

Vp vd Not Available USD 840.00
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 USD 84.00
193 (Thomson, Hugh).

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

London [1914] Not Available USD 120.00
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 USD 72.00
196 (Thomson, Hugh) Barrie, J. M.

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

[New York and London] [1913] Not Available USD 48.00
197 Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Le hamac. Fine etched print.

Np, Circa 1880 [1000/1500] Not Available USD 780.00
198 Travel

Group of 9 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
199 Travel

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

New York 1913-23 Not Available USD 660.00
  • 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