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New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books & Ephemera | Total Sales (USD) | 24,048.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | July 14, 2026 - July 14, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #67 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 193 | ||
| Sold Lots | 187.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 96.89% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Bronte Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
1848 | Not Available | USD 1,800.00 |
| 96 | Ruth Babe | D&M Sporting Goods Catalogue |
1920 | Not Available | USD 1,440.00 |
| 55 | Farber; Goubert | N Books, including: The Postmortem Examination |
1937; 1867 | Not Available | USD 840.00 |
| 33 | Bronte Sisters | Novels |
1924 | Not Available | USD 660.00 |
| 58 | Albers Johann Friedrich | Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie fur praktische Aerzte |
1847; 1842 | Not Available | USD 660.00 |
| 110 | World War II Photo Album |
1940s | Not Available | USD 450.00 | |
| 53 | Cuvier Georges | The Animal Kingdom |
1829 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
| 198 | 16 Books, including: Fashion Bazar |
1907; 1919-20; 1921-22 | Not Available | USD 360.00 | |
| 31 | Updike John | N Books, including: The Same Door |
1959; 1981; 1960 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 50 | Lewis Sinclair; Schary Dore | Storm in the West |
1963 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 3 | Middleton Charles Theodore | A New and Complete System of Geography |
1779 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 60 | Erasmus; Suetonius Tranquillus; Curtius Rufus; Masen | N Books, including: Sabavdiae Respublica et Historia |
1634; 1641; 1656; 1687; 1660 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 79 | N Books, including: National Sportsman |
1920s; 1939; 1900s | Not Available | USD 300.00 | |
| 98 | N Books, including: Speedwell Motor Car Co. |
1905-1925 | Not Available | USD 300.00 | |
| 163 | Stanton Eric | The Art of Eric Stanton |
vd | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 166 | Willie John; Klang Roy | 27 Books, including: The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline |
vd | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 204 | Rhodes; Streeter | Before Photocopying. The Art & History of Mechanical Copying 1780-1938 |
1999 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 17 | Mill James | The History of British India |
1848 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 62 | Gilles Pierre | De Constantinopoleos topographia, libri IV |
1632 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 83 | Shattuck Lemuel | A History of the Town of Concord |
1835 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 123 | Motherby George | A New Medical Dictionary; or, General Repository of Physic |
1764 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 149 | Homer; Pope; Dryden John; Cowper | 5 Books, including: Letters From a Mother to Her Daughter |
vd; 1817; 1804; 1829 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 7 | Magendie Francois | Lectures on the Blood |
1839 | Not Available | USD 240.00 |
| 155 | Fuller Thomas | The Holy State |
1642 | Not Available | USD 240.00 |
| 27 | Maclise Joseph | On Dislocations and Fractures |
1859 | Not Available | USD 228.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000