Northeast Auctions: Books and Prints, 100914, Portsmouth

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 09, 2014 - October 09, 2014
Page Size: 81 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2

PORTFOLIO OF UNFRAMED PRINTS AND OTHER MATERIAL.

Not Available Unknown
3

THREE BOXES OF BOOKS.

Not Available Unknown
15

JOHN LANGDON'S COPY OF THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, 1799 Not Available Unknown
30

WILLIAM MCKINLEY CAMPAIGN BUTTON AND A LARGE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MCKINLEY TEN DOLLAR BILL.

Not Available Unknown
33

BOX LOT OF ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS.

Not Available Unknown
41 GEORGE WASHINGTON. Jared Sparks,

The Writing of George Washington

Boston, 1837 Not Available Unknown
42 GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The Life of George Washington, Maps and Subscribers' Names,

Philadelphia, 1807 Not Available Unknown
43

BOSTON CITY DIRECTORIES.

1833 Not Available Unknown
44

EARLY AMERICAN WROUGHT IRON BY ALBERT H. SONN. Three volume first edition published in 1928

1928 Not Available Unknown
45

PEWTER REFERENCE BOOKS. Including a boxed set of Pewter in America and Dean A. Fales personal bound volumes of "Pewter Club Bulletins"

Not Available Unknown
46

SOTHEBY'S CELEBRITY AUCTION CATALOGS. Lot also includes Russian works of art catalogs.

Not Available Unknown
47

THE DICTIONARY HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL OF MR. PETER BAYLE, THE SECOND EDITION.

London 1734 Not Available Unknown
48

FIVE BOUND VOLUMES OF "THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO."

1923-1925. Not Available Unknown
49

THE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER COLLECTION OF AMERICA, SEVEN BOUND VOLUMES PLUS INDEX.

Not Available Unknown
57 ANDREA MORELLIO.

THESAURI MORELLIAN,

AMSTERDAM, 1799 Not Available Unknown
58 SCHONLEBEN.

DISSERTATIO POLEMICA DE PRIMA ORIGINE, 1680

1680 Not Available Unknown
61

TWO STEREOPTICON VIEWERS AND LOT OF CARDS.

Not Available Unknown
67

LARGE GROUP OF NINETEENTH CENTURY PRINT VIEWS OF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. I

NINETEENTH CENTURY Not Available Unknown
68

PRINTS AND MEMORABILIA RELATED TO SHIPS AND THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD.

Not Available Unknown
69

GROUP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE RELATED PRINTS, INCLUDING PORTRAITS OF JOHN PAUL JONES, DANIEL WEBSTER AND FRANKLIN PIERCE.

Not Available Unknown
91 CURRIER & IVES,

"THE BULLY TEAM."

Not Available Unknown
92

THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER COLLECTION OF AMERICANA, SEVEN BOUND VOLUMES PLUS INDEX.

Not Available Unknown
95

THREE BOXES OF BOOKS MOSTLY ON BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Not Available Unknown
96

TWO BOXES OF ANTIQUES REFERENCE BOOKS, MOSTLY FOLK ART.

Not Available Unknown
98

THIRTEEN FANCY LEATHER BOUND BOOKS.

Not Available Unknown
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.