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
200 Travel

Group of 5 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 120.00
201

Travel. Group of 18 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 156.00
202 Tristram, W. Outram

Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. Tall

London 1893 Not Available USD 48.00
203 Trollope, Anthony

An Editor's Tales.

London 1870 Not Available USD 60.00
204 Tuer, Andrew White

Bartolozzi and His Works. Illustrated.

London [1881] Not Available USD 60.00
205 (Turbayne, Albert Angus)

Original watercolor design for the cover of Milton's Poetical Works.

Np 1900 Not Available USD 420.00
206 Turrell, Charles

Miniatures. 98 reproductions in photogravure & color. Tall

London 1913 Not Available USD 180.00
207 Moore, T. Sturge.

Danae. A Poem. 3 illustrations by Charles Ricketts.

(London 1903) Not Available USD 168.00
208 Sill, Edward Roland.

Sill, Edward Roland. Poems. Fine watercolor illustrations in margins and within text in the style of Amelia Watson's "Cape Code".

Boston and New York 1889 Not Available USD 192.00
209 Blake, William.

Blake, William. Poetical Sketches. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts.

London, 1899 Not Available USD 390.00
210 Shakespeare, William.

The Tragedy of Othello * ditto. Love's Labour's Lost. Together 2 volumes. Decorations by Charles Ricketts.

London 1900 Not Available USD 108.00
211 Jemima Condict

Jemima Condict Her Book. Being A Transcript of the Diary of an Essex County Maid during the Revolutionary War.

Newark 1930 Not Available USD 120.00
212 Thoreau, Henry David

Walden. Introduction by Bradford Torrey. Illustrated with photogravures. 2 volumes.

Boston and New York 1897 Not Available USD 1,140.00
213 Walton, Izaak

The Complete Angler. Color illustrations by James Thorpe.

London, (1925) [250/350] Not Available USD 510.00
214 Rosenberg, Isaac.

Rosenberg, Isaac. Poems. Selected and Edited by Gordon Bottomley. Introductory Memoir by Laurence Binyon.

London 1922 Not Available USD 168.00
215 Watson, Virginia

The Princess Pocahontas. Illustrated, including color plates by George Wharton Edwards.

Philadelphia 1920 Not Available Not Sold
216 Wharton, Edith

Italian Villas and Their Gardens. Illustrated, including plates by Maxfield Parrish.

New York 1910 Not Available USD 144.00
217 Whitman, Walt.

Leaves of Grass. Extra-Illustrated.

Philadelphia 1884 Not Available USD 4,200.00
218 Wilde, Oscar

Salome. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Square

London 1904 Not Available USD 720.00
219 (Wyeth, N. C.) Porter, Jane.

The Scottish Chiefs. Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. Color plates by Wyeth.

New York 1921 Not Available USD 132.00
220 Yeats, William Butler

The Tower.

London 1928 Not Available USD 450.00
221 Zabriskie, George A

Stephen Collins Foster * William Phips. Together 2 volumes.

Ormond Beach, FL 1941; 1944 Not Available USD 72.00
  • 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