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
149 Miniature

The Almanack Explained. 4 part engraved view of the London Institution.

[London] 1820 Not Available USD 216.00
150 Miniature

The Almanack Explained. 4 part engraved view of the Coal Exchange Institution.

[London] 1794 Not Available USD 192.00
151 Montagu, Eleanora Louisa

The Landgrave. A Play in Five Acts.

London 1839 Not Available USD 120.00
152 Montgomery, Frances Trego

On a Lark to the Planets. Illustrated by Winifred D. Elrod.

New York 1904 Not Available USD 132.00
153 Morris, William

The Earthly Paradise. 4 volumes.

London 1883-85 Not Available USD 420.00
154 Morris, William

Hopes and Fears for Art [with:] Signs of Change. Text in red and black.

(New York and Bombay 1902) Not Available USD 84.00
155 (Moser, Barry)

Group of 15 volumes. Illustrated by Moser.

Vp vd Not Available USD 216.00
156 Muir, John

The Yosemite. Illustrated.

New York 1912 Not Available USD 480.00
157 (Napoleon I.)

Monuments de Paris en 1810 [Cadeau de Mariage de Napoleon a Marie-Louise).

Paris 1961 Not Available USD 156.00
158 O'Connor, William Douglas

Three Tales; The Ghost The Android The Carpenter.

Boston 1892 Not Available USD 96.00
159 Parker, Robert Andrew.

A Yiddish Lexicon. Volume One. 36 hand-colored drawings by Parker.

[New York] 2013 Not Available USD 156.00
160 (Parrish, Maxfield)

Field, Eugene. Poems of Childhood. Color plates by Parrish.

New York 1904 Not Available USD 108.00
161 (Paul, Eveyln).

The Romance of Tristram of Lyones & La Beale Isoude. Decorations and color plates by Paul.

New York Circa 1910 Not Available USD 132.00
162

Group of 31 volumes. Most illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 204.00
163 Poe, Edgar Allan.

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

Chicago 1894 Not Available USD 840.00
164 Henri, I. R.

Henri, I. R. The Inland Printer. October Number. 16 x 9-3/4 inches, neatly matted, in glass-fronted frame.

Chicago, October 1898 Not Available USD 48.00
165 (Pyle, Howard) Tennyson, Alfred.

The Lady of Shallot. Color lithograph illustrations by Pyle. Square

New York [1881] Not Available USD 144.00
166 (Ricketts, Charles)

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below.

London vd Not Available USD 330.00
167 (Ross, Gordon) Hall, George Eli.

A Balloon Ascension at Midnight. Silhouettes by Ross. Thin

San Francisco 1902 Not Available USD 216.00
168 Rossetti, Christina

Goblin Market. Illustrations by Laurence Housman. Tall thin

London 1893 Not Available USD 450.00
169 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

The Blessed Damozel. Illustrations by Kenyon Cox.

New York 1886 Not Available USD 270.00
170 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 28 photogravure portraits of Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, George W. James & others, by Adelaide Hanscom, some on India paper; colored dedication leaf.

New York [1905] Not Available USD 60.00
171 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 228.00
172 (Schweitzer, Albert)

The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book. Edited by A. A. Roback, J. S. Bixler and George Sarton. Illustrated.

Cambridge [1945] Not Available USD 360.00
173 Scripps College Press

Objects are Closer Than They Appear. Letterpress text in various colors. Pop-up plate.

[Claremont, CA], 2002 Not Available USD 60.00
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