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

Auction Details

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
124 Jewett, Sarah Orne

Betty Leicester. A Story for Girls.

Boston and New York 1890 Not Available USD 300.00
125 (Jones, Owen)

The Victoria Psalter.

[London Circa 1861-62 Not Available USD 1,440.00
126 Kay, Robert

The New Perceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue

Newcastle 1801 Not Available USD 144.00
127 Keeler, Charles

A Season's Sowing * Elfin Songs of Sunland. Together 2 volumes. Decorations by Louise Keeler.

San Francisco or Berkeley 1899; 1904 Not Available USD 228.00
128 Keeler, Charles

A Season's Sowing. Hand-illuminated decorations by Louise Keeler, highlighted with gold.

San Francisco 1899 Not Available USD 360.00
129 (Kent, Rockwell) [Squires, Frederick].

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

New York 1914 Not Available USD 1,020.00
130 Kerouac, Jack

Big Sur.

New York, 1962 Not Available USD 204.00
131 King, Jessie M

The Little White Town of Never Weary.

London, [1917] Not Available USD 96.00
132 Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book. 16 color illustrations by Maurice and Edward Detmold, text within decorated margins.

New York 1913 Not Available USD 204.00
133 (Knie, Rolf)

Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated.

(Switzerland) nd Not Available Not Sold
134 (Knowle, Reginald L) Balzac, Honore de.

Contes Choisis. Original ink cover design by Knowles.

London 1913 Not Available USD 132.00
135 Lamartine, Alphonse de

Oeuvres Complete. Edition Nouvelle. Engraved plates. 4 volumes.

Paris 1834 Not Available USD 108.00
136 Lancaster, Hewes

The One & The Other.

Boston, 1912 Not Available Not Sold
137 Brown, Francis H. * Hewitt, H. D.

Pride Polka * Mermaid Polka. Together 2 hand-colored pictorial sheet music covers.

New York 1850s Not Available USD 60.00
138 Lloyd, John Uri

The Right Side of the Car. Illustrations on Japan vellum by Augustus Knapp.

Boston 1897 Not Available USD 84.00
139 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems.

Boston 1858 Not Available USD 108.00
140 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Evangeline. Illustrated, including chromolithograph plates by Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.

Boston and New York 1897 Not Available USD 180.00
141 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Song of Hiawatha. Illustrations from photographs by Grace Chandler H+C4orn.

London 1912 Not Available USD 72.00
142 Lowell, Percival

Occult Japan or The Way of the Gods. Illustrated.

Boston and New York 1895 Not Available USD 180.00
143 Lucas, E. V.

Edwin Austin Abbey. Royal Academician. The Record of His Life and Work. Illustrated. 2 volumes.

New York and London 1921 Not Available USD 24.00
144 Lurine, Louis,

et. al. Les Rues de Paris. Paris Ancien et Moderne. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Tall

Paris 1844 Not Available USD 48.00
145 Maeterlinck, Maurice

The Blue Bird. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. 25 tipped-in color plates by F. Cayley Robinson.

London, 1911 Not Available USD 228.00
146 Maeterlinck, Maurice

The Blue Bird. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. 25 tipped-in color illustrations by F. Cayley Robinson.

New York 1911 Not Available USD 60.00
147 (Mannfeld, Bernhard)

Rittershaus, Emil. Rheinlands Sang und Sage. Vierte Auflage. Title and 19 etched plates (6 in color) by Mannfeld.

Bonn 1898 Not Available USD 48.00
148 Mennie, Donald

The Grandeur of the Gorges. Illustrated with 50 gravure reproductions of Mennie's photographs of the Yangtze river.

Shanghai 1926 Not Available USD 570.00
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