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
80 Wilde, Oscar.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces.

London. 1908 Not Available USD 144.00
81 Macky.

A Journey Through England in Familiar Letters.

London. 1723 Not Available USD 360.00
82 Riggs, Anna.

Letters From Italy, in the Years 1770 and 1771.

London. 1777 Not Available USD 120.00
83 Leech, John.

Three illustrated by John Leech.

London. vd Not Available USD 144.00
84

18 Chapbooks Bound in 1 Volume.

London. 19th-century. Not Available USD 72.00
85

Group of 6 Leather Bindings.

Vp vd Not Available USD 120.00
86 Thoreau, Henry David.

Cape Cod.

Boston & NY. 1904 Not Available USD 168.00
87 Dalzel, Andrew.

History of The University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh. 1862 Not Available USD 24.00
88

Group of 5 Decorative Bindings.

Vp vd Not Available USD 192.00
89 Masui-Castricque, Paul-Auguste.

La Legende de Thyl Ulenspiegel.

(Londres 1917) Not Available USD 144.00
90

The Manchester Iris. Volumes 1 & 2 [all published].

Manchester 1822-23 Not Available USD 240.00
91 [Webster, Noah].

The Prompter; or a Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects.

Boston 1793 Not Available USD 720.00
92 Awaji-no-kami, Muragaki.

Kokai Nikki. The Diary of the First Japanese Embassy to the United States of America

Tokyo or Yokohama 1958; (1949) Not Available USD 84.00
93 (King, Ronald). Chaucer.

The Prologue From the Canterbury Tales.

England 1967 Not Available USD 360.00
94 Cabell.

The Silver Stallion by Cabell.

Vp vd Not Available USD 216.00
95

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk by Nathaniel Kent.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
96

Gold Stories of '49 by a Californian.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
97 Sendak, Maurice.

20+ Sendak Titles With Related Items.

Vp vd Not Available USD 204.00
98 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

All Titles illustrated by Howard Pyle.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
99 Swinburne, Algernon C..

Most are American 1st Editions.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
100 Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Vp vd Not Available USD 48.00
101 Remington, Frederic.

The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow.

Vp vd Not Available USD 60.00
102

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Potter.

Vp vd Not Available USD 84.00
103

Legends of the Bocas Trinidad by Russell.

Vp vd Not Available USD 156.00
104 Adamson, Sydney.

Buy Yellow Book Poster.

vd Not Available USD 36.00
  • 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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.