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

Auction Details

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
105	Trollope, Anthony.	Group of 12 volumes.	Leipzig	1870s	Not Available	USD 168.00
106		George MacDonald a Bibliographical Study by Shaberman * The Vale Press by Watry * The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 by Minsky * Cover Treasure The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong by Thing * First Printings of American Authors.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 96.00
107		Group of 9 SIGNED Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 72.00
108		Miniature Books. Group of 14.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 300.00
109		Literature. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 60.00
110	Milton, John.	Paradise Regain'd: A Poem.	London	1739	Not Available	USD 156.00
111		Black-Americana . Group of 10 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 120.00
112		Decorative Bindings. Group of 12 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 192.00
113	Gay, John.	Poems on Several Occasions.	London.	1731	Not Available	USD 84.00
114	Brown.	The Elements of Medicine; or, A Translation of The Elementa Medicinae Brunonis.	Fairhaven, Vt.	1797	Not Available	USD 96.00
115	Quincy, John.	Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporabnea: Or, a Complete English Dispensatory.	London.	1749	Not Available	USD 60.00
116	Good, John Mason.	The Study of Medicine.	Boston	1823	Not Available	USD 36.00
117		Art & Architecture. Group of 10 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 84.00
118		Art & First Editions. Group of 7 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 60.00
119		Signed Books. Group of 10 SIGNED Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 204.00
120		Medicine. Group of 8 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 60.00
121		Book on Bindings. Group of 16 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 330.00
122		The Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art.	London	1900's	Not Available	USD 156.00
123		Traite de Chimie Anatomique et Physiologique by Robin.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 60.00
124		Southern Literature. Group of 4 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 48.00
125		A Manual of Analytical Chemistry by Henry Rose.	London.	1831	Not Available	USD 48.00
126		American Bindings. Group of 8 Titles.	Vp	vd	Not Available	USD 390.00
127	Spurzheim.	Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind; or, Insanity by Spurzheim.	Boston.	1836	Not Available	USD 72.00
128		A Dictionary of Practical Surgery.	Philadelphia.	1810	Not Available	USD 72.00
129		The History of Greece, From the Earliest state, to the Death of Alexander The Great by Oliver Goldsmith.	London.	1821	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

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.