New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List, 56, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
Page Size: 219 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
125

Miscellaneous. Sammelband of short novels, as listed below * Chambliss. The Lives and Travels of Livingstone and Stanley...in Southern and Central Africa. Some illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 48.00
126 (Crawhall, Joseph).

Olde Tayles Newlye Relayted. Woodcut illustrations by Crawhall.

London: 1883 Not Available USD 84.00
127 Twain, Mark.

Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
128

Illustrated. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 24.00
129

Fine Press. Saint Dominic. Scenes from the Life of the Saint in the Form of a Play. Title vignette. Small

Ditchling 1929 Not Available USD 132.00
130

Art Reference. Group of 7 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 108.00
131

Children's. The Home Library. Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. A New Edition * ditto. The Lively History of Jack & the Beanstalk.

London or Westminster 1845; 1846 Not Available USD 60.00
132

Chapbooks. Group of 7 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated.

Troy or New Haven 1840s-50s Not Available USD 108.00
133

Periodicals. The Dome. Numbers 3-4 * ditto. New Series. Volumes 1 & 3 * The Lark. Numbers 18, 23 & 24 * The Epilark.

Vp 1897-99 Not Available USD 24.00
134

Children's. Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated, including first printed on linen.

Vp vd Not Available USD 24.00
135

Illustrated. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated, including first 2 by Bilibine.

Vp vd Not Available USD 36.00
136

Illustrated. Group of 3 periodicals, as listed below. Illustrated, including first 2 by Will Bradley.

Vp vd Not Available USD 36.00
137 Eliot, T. S.

The Journey of the Magi. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. 4 pages.

(London: [1927] Not Available USD 96.00
138 Conrad, Joseph.

Within the Tides.

New York 1916 Not Available USD 216.00
139 Stephens, John L.

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. New Edition. Illustration, including folding map. 2 volumes.

London: 1842 Not Available USD 132.00
140

Photography. Weegee. Weegee's People * Steiner, A Point of View. Together 2 volumes. Illustrations from photographs.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
141

Conchology. Turton, William. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands. 28 hand-colored plates.

London 1819 Not Available USD 72.00
142 . Jarry, Alfred.

Ubu Roi. Drama in 5 Acts. Illustrated, including drawings by Franciszka Themerson "doodled on litho plates."

London: 1951 Not Available USD 36.00
143

Color Plates. Atlas der Alpenflora. Neubearbeitete Auflage. 500 color lithograph plates. 5 volumes, including text volume.

Graz 1897 Not Available USD 84.00
144 Carroll, Lewis.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sixteenth Thousand. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

London 1869 Not Available USD 540.00
145 Carroll, Lewis.

The Hunting of the Snark. Illustrated by Henry Holiday.

London 1876 Not Available USD 108.00
146 Carroll, Lewis.

The Hunting of the Snark. Illustrated by Henry Holiday.

London 1876 Not Available USD 72.00
147 Carroll, Lewis.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

London 1872 Not Available USD 330.00
148

Travel. Roberts. Forty-One Years in India. 2 volumes * Hearn. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. 2 volumes. Together 4 volumes. Illustrated.

London or Boston 1897; 1894 Not Available USD 120.00
149

Murder. Davis. Charles G. Report of the Trial of Samuel M. Andrews, Indicted for the Murder of Cornelius Holmes. Frontispiece plan.

New York 1869 Not Available USD 24.00
  • 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
  • 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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    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