New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera, Including Inventory from Austin Abbey Rare Books, 59, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 03, 2026 - February 03, 2026
Page Size: 211 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Helmont, Johanne Baptista van.

Ortus Medicinae.

Amsterdam 1835 [200/] Not Available USD 156.00
27 Kennedy, Edward G.

The Etched Work of Whistler.

New York 1910 Not Available USD 60.00
28 Gilliss, J.

The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere.

Washington 1855 Not Available USD 48.00
29

Madame de Sevigne and Her Contemporaries.

London 1842 Not Available USD 390.00
30 Spielman & Jerrold.

Hugh Thomson His Art His Letters His Humour and His Charm

Vp vd Not Available USD 120.00
31

Decorative Bindings.

Vp vd Not Available USD 420.00
32 by Bertha H. Smith.

Yosemite Legends

Vp vd Not Available USD 156.00
33

The Minstrel's Gift by Turner.

Vp vd Not Available USD 96.00
35

Contemporary Art in Europe by Benjamin.

Vp vd Not Available USD 48.00
36

Group of 15 Titles most are 1st Editions.

Vp vd Not Available Not Sold
38

The History of John Gilpin of Cheapside, A Droll Story.

Philadelphia 1807 Not Available USD 36.00
39 Alcott, Louisa May.

Little Women * Little Women. Part Second.

Boston 1869 Not Available USD 3,900.00
40 Dickens, Charles.

A Christmas Carol.

London 1843 Not Available USD 1,920.00
41 Homer.

Opera.

Oxon 1800 Not Available USD 132.00
42 Ball, Eliza Craufurd.

The Christian Armour.

New York 1866 Not Available USD 360.00
43 Nicholson, William.

December.

[New York 1898] Not Available USD 24.00
44

Know Thyself.

[Ontario] Circa 1860s Not Available USD 84.00
45

Drug Culture . Group of 9 titles.

Vp vd Not Available USD 192.00
46 Monachesi.

A Manual for China Painters.

Boston. 1904 Not Available USD 96.00
47 Gregory, John.

A Father's Legacy to His Daughters.

Edinburgh. 1788 Not Available USD 24.00
49 [Glasgow, Ellen].

The Descendant.

New York 1897 Not Available USD 60.00
50 Kipling, Rudyard.

The Jungle Book.

New York 1913 Not Available USD 270.00
51 London, Jack.

The Son of the Wolf.

New York 1902 Not Available USD 660.00
52 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Philadelphia 1828 Not Available USD 144.00
53

Bible. Das Kleine Davidische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions.

Germantown 1813 Not Available USD 120.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.