New England Book Auctions: Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books, 546, South Deerfield

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 09, 2025 - December 09, 2025
Page Size: 222 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

The Guardian Angel.

 Boston 1867 Not Available USD 660.00
27 Hall, S. C.

The Book of Gems. Chaucer to Dryden * ditto. Swift to Burns * ditto. Wordsworth to Tennyson.

 London 1866-73 Not Available USD 600.00
28 Cook, Herbert.

Giorgione. Illustrated.

 London 1904 Not Available USD 330.00
29 Bland, Schuyler Otis.

The Yorktown Sesquicentennial. Illustrated.

Washington 1932 Not Available USD 300.00
30 Spargo, John.

The Potters and Potteries of Bennington. Illustrated.

Boston 1926 Not Available USD 120.00
31 Rivers, John.

Greuze and His Models. Illustrated. Large

 London 1912 Not Available USD 330.00
32 [Boyle, Eleanor Vere].

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

 London 1885 Not Available USD 960.00
33 Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

 London 1897 Not Available USD 300.00
34 Cook, Mrs. E. T.

Highways and Byways in London. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and F. L. Griggs.

 London 1911 Not Available USD 450.00
35

Binding. Oficio Divino...Neuva Edicion.

 Paris 1850 Not Available USD 660.00
36 Prideaux, S. T.

An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding. Illustrated.

 London 1893 Not Available USD 570.00
37

Bindings. Group of 9 volumes, as listed below. Some illustrated.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
38

Group of 5 volumes as listed below.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 228.00
38a

Fore-Edge Painting. Tennyson. Maud. New Edition.

 London 1864 Not Available USD 450.00
39 Birnbaum, Uriel

Allerlei absonderliche Tiere. 40 color plates on rectos only.

 Wien [1926] Not Available USD 144.00
40 Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen

Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus.

(Boston 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
41 (Bonnard, Pierre). De Montherlant, Henry.

La Redemption par les Betes. Lithograph illustrations by Bonnard, printed by Fernand Mourlot.

 Paris 1959) Not Available USD 120.00
42 Miller, Julia.

Suave Mechanicals. Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume I * ditto. Books Will Speak Plain. Together 2 volumes.

 (Ann Arbor) 2013; 2014 Not Available USD 180.00
43 Boucher, Monique

Entropion. 35 etchings by Abdallah Benanieur. Oblong

 (Paris 1975 Not Available Not Sold
44 Bradley, Will

Harper's Round Table. Thanksgiving Number. Black, white and red poster.

[New York] 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
45 Bradley, Will

Ault & Wiborg Co. Manufacturers of Lithographic Letter Press Printing Inks. Small poster of 2 porters carrying a basket of flowers.

 Chicago, [1899] Not Available USD 48.00
46 (Bradley, Will)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A paraphrase...by Richard Le Gallienne.

 New York 1897 Not Available USD 60.00
47 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 8 volumes. Illustrated.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
48 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 6 volumes, as listed below. Decorations or bindings by Bradley.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 132.00
49 (Bradley, Will)

Group of 8 volumes, as listed below. Decorations or bindings by Bradley.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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