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

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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
99 Frankau, Julia

The Story of Emma, Lady Hamilton. 30 color plates with lettered tissue guards, 8 monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations. 2 volumes. Small

 London 1911 Not Available USD 144.00
100 Freeman-Mitford, A. B.

The Attache at Peking.

 London 1900 Not Available USD 420.00
101 Gerlach, Martin.

Festons und Decorative Gruppen nebst einem Zieralphabete aus Pflanzen und Thieren Jagd-, Touristen und anderen Gerathen. Dritte Verbesserte Auflage.

 Wein, Circa 1890s Not Available USD 96.00
102 [Gilman], Charlotte Perkins Stetson

In This Our World. Frontispiece.

 Boston 1898 Not Available USD 108.00
103 (Goodhue, Bertram) Delafield, Emily Prime.

Alice in Wonderland. A Play. Cover, illustrations, & end-papers by Goodhue.

 New York 1898 Not Available USD 228.00
104 Green, Anna Katharine

Three Thousand Dollars. Illustrated.

 Boston 1910 Not Available USD 48.00
105 Boccaccio, Giovanni.

Life of Dante. Portrait, folding plan.

 New York 1900 Not Available USD 300.00
106 (Gross, Chaim)

Chaim Gross. Watercolors and Drawings. Text by Alfred Werner. Illustrated. Oblong

 New York, 1979 Not Available USD 60.00
107 Guiney, Louise Imogen

The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems.

 Boston and New York 1899 Not Available USD 108.00
108 Hartley, Marsden.

Hartley, Marsden. Twenty-Five Poems.

 (Paris [1923] Not Available USD 540.00
109

Ferns. 24 leaves. Each with mounted chromolithographed card surrounded by actual samples of ferns. Square

 Np 19th-century Not Available USD 180.00
110 Hewlett, Maurice.

The Forest Lovers.

 London 1898 Not Available USD 420.00
111 Hohlwein, Ludwig

Tarsoarbeit. H. Schilling & co. Lithograph advertisement. 15 x 8-1/2 inches; some creasing.

 Munich, Circa 1920s [100/150] Not Available USD 60.00
112 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Autocrat Of the Breakfast-Table. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 2 volumes.

 Boston and New York 1894 Not Available USD 96.00
113 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Dorothy Q. Illustrations by Howard Pyle.

 Boston and New York 1893 Not Available USD 168.00
114 (Homer, Winslow)

Proceedings at the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, By the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856. Lithographed plates, many by Winslow Homer (as an apprentice).

 Boston 1856 Not Available USD 108.00
115 Housman, Laurence

Angels & Ministers.

 London 1921 Not Available USD 48.00
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.

 London 1857 Not Available USD 1,200.00
117

Conspiracy Against Peace. 18 photo-pictorial leaves of the Hungarian Counter Revolution of 1956-57. Oblong

 Np, Circa 1957 Not Available USD 132.00
118

Illustrated. Andersen, Hans Christian. Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt.

Vienna 1897 Not Available USD 120.00
119

Group of 8 volumes. Illustrated, including by Rackham, Edwin Abbey & others.

 Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
120 James, Rian

Dining in New York. Revised (Second) Edition.

 New York, (January 1931) Not Available USD 144.00
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.

 Tokyo 1889-1920s Not Available USD 720.00
122 Jewett, Sarah Orne

The Country of Pointed Firs.

 Boston and New York 1897 Not Available USD 510.00
123 Jewett, Sarah Orne.

The Country of Pointed Firs. Watercolor illustrations in margins and within text.

 Boston and New York 1896 Not Available USD 180.00
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    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
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