New England Book Auctions: Fine Bindings Literaure Illustrated, Including Selections from Austin Abey Rare Books, 548, South Deerfield

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 24, 2026 - February 24, 2026
Page Size: 222 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
27

Bindings. Group of 6 volumes

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 660.00
28

Bindings. Group of 5 volumes as listed below

Vp vd USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 180.00
29 Byron

Bindings. Byron. Works

London 1833 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 360.00
30

Bindings. Group of 7 volumes

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 270.00
31 Mac Orlan, P.

(Bofa, Gus). Eloge de Gus Bofa

[Paris] 1949 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 270.00
32

Books on Books. Group of 8 volumes as listed below

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 156.00
33 Boutet, Henri

Autour d'Elles

Paris 1899 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 360.00
34 Bowman, George Leo

Original watercolor for a cover of Whitman's Leaves of Grass

American 20thcentury USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 36.00
35 Bradley, Will

Archive of over 20 periodicals and several excised leaves

American 1890s1910 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 330.00
36 (Brock, C. E.; or H. M)

Group of 8 volumes

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 228.00
37 Bronte, Charlotte, Emily & Anne

The Novels

London and New York 1905 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 1,020.00
38 Buber, Martin

Die Legende des Baalschem

Frankfurt 1908 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 270.00
39 [Budgen, L. M]

Episodes of Insect Life by "Acheta Domestica"

London 18491851 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 330.00
40

Bush. 41: A Portrait of My Father

New York 2014 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 48.00
41 (Calkins, Earnest Elmo)

Group of 11 volumes, as listed below

Vp vd USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 216.00
42 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

(Surrey) 1979 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 168.00
43 Carter, Mary E.

Millionaire Households

New York 1903 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 900.00
44 Champney, Lizzie W.

In The Sky Garden

Boston 1877 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 108.00
45

Chapbook. The History of the Children in the Wood...to which is added An Interesting Account of the Captive Boy

New=York 1825 USD 125.00 - 175.00 USD 84.00
46

Chapbooks. Sammelbands of 26 chapbooks bound in 2 volumes

England 181030s USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 330.00
47

Children's. Group of 7 volumes

Vp vd USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 84.00
48

Children's. Album of 13 hand-colored pencil drawings of children at play

Np 19thcentury USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 192.00
49 Clement, Hal

Cycle of Fire

New York 1957 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 60.00
50 Craig, Edward Gordon

A Production: Being Thirty-two Collotype Plates of Designs Projected or Realised for the Pretenders of Henrik Ibsen and Produced at the Royal Theatre Copenhagen 1926

London 1930 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 132.00
51 Crane, Stephen

The Open Boat

New York 1898 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 660.00
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.