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New England Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books

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Auction Name Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books Total Sales (USD) 70,134.00
Auction Date December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #546 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 222
Sold Lots 216.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 97.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
217 Whitman, Walt.

Leaves of Grass. Extra-Illustrated.

1884 Not Available USD 4,200.00
13 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

[1894] Not Available USD 3,000.00
76

Group of 21 volumes. Most illustrated.

vd Not Available USD 1,800.00
125 (Jones, Owen)

The Victoria Psalter.

Circa 1861-62 Not Available USD 1,440.00
116 Humphreys, Henry Noel

Sentiments and Similes of Shakespeare. Second Edition. 106 pages chromolithographed throughout in black and gold, including a chromolithographed decorative sectional title in colors.

1857 Not Available USD 1,200.00
19 Baumann, Gustave

Frijoles Canyon Pictographs. 24 woodcuts, including a four-page folding plate SIGNED BY BAUMANN.

1939 Not Available USD 1,140.00
212 Thoreau, Henry David

Walden. Introduction by Bradford Torrey. Illustrated with photogravures. 2 volumes.

1897 Not Available USD 1,140.00
23 Dickens, Charles.

Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated.

1901 Not Available USD 1,020.00
25 Campan, Madame.

Memoirs of Marie Antoinette. Illustrated.

1906 Not Available USD 1,020.00
87 Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It. Illustrated, LP from Earhart's 22 May 1932 broadcast in rear pocket.

1932 Not Available USD 1,020.00
129 (Kent, Rockwell) [Squires, Frederick].

Architec-Tonics: The Tales of Tom Thumtack Architect. Illustrated by Kent.

1914 Not Available USD 1,020.00
32 [Boyle, Eleanor Vere].

Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum. By E. V. B.

1885 Not Available USD 960.00
63 Coquille D'Oeif Binding

Genet, Jean. Querelle de Brest.

1947 Not Available USD 960.00
163 Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan. Works. Illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner. 10 volumes.

1894 Not Available USD 840.00
191 (Thomson, Hugh).

(Thomson, Hugh). Group of 18 volumes. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

vd Not Available USD 840.00
7 (Armstrong, Margaret)

Group of 20 volumes. Some illustrated.

vd Not Available USD 780.00
55a Carroll.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking Glass. Together 2 volumes. Illustrated by John Tenniel.

1927; 1928 Not Available USD 780.00
197 Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Le hamac. Fine etched print.

[1000/1500] Not Available USD 780.00
121 Japanese Art

The Kokka. An Illustrated Monthly Journal of the Fine and Applied Arts of Japan and Other Eastern Countries. Illustrated, including color plates. Over 200 issues.

1889-1920s Not Available USD 720.00
179 Shakespeare, William

[Works]. The Boydell Shakespeare or The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Originally published by John Boydell.

1874 Not Available USD 720.00
218 Wilde, Oscar

Salome. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Square

1904 Not Available USD 720.00
14 Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility. Illustrations by Chris Hammond.

1899 Not Available USD 660.00
26 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

The Guardian Angel.

1867 Not Available USD 660.00
35

Binding. Oficio Divino...Neuva Edicion.

1850 Not Available USD 660.00
59 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Frontispieces, 32 engraved plates. 2 volumes.

1719 Not Available USD 660.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000