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
174 Scripps College Press

Cut & Dried. Text in various colors. Illustrated. Narrow

[Claremont, CA], 2004 Not Available USD 60.00
175 Scudder, Samuel Hubbard

Everyday Butterflies: A Group of Biographies. Illustrated.

Boston and New York 1899 Not Available USD 168.00
176 Haberly, Loyd.

The Antiquary, A Poem Written in Waterperry Church and Decorated with Designs from the Glass of its Ancient Windows.

Long Crendon, Bucks 1933 Not Available USD 390.00
177 Shakespeare, William

The Comedies. Illustrations by Edwin Abbey, lettered tissue guards. 4 volumes.

New York, 1895 Not Available USD 108.00
178 Shakespeare, William

The First

New York 1968 Not Available USD 72.00
179 Shakespeare, William

[Works]. The Boydell Shakespeare or The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Originally published by John Boydell.

Philadelphia 1874 Not Available USD 720.00
180

Silver Binding. Letter blotter portfolio.

England 1892-93 Not Available USD 390.00
181 Smith, Bertha H

Yosemite Legends. Illustrations by Florence Lundborg. Tall

San Francisco 1904 Not Available USD 132.00
182 Smith, Gertrude

The Arabella and Araminta Stories. Illustrations by Ethel Reed.

Boston 1895 Not Available USD 300.00
183 Smith, Mrs. W. H.

The Children's Japan. Color illustrations. Square

Tokyo Circa 1910 Not Available USD 132.00
184 Sotheby, Samuel Leigh

Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton. 2 mounted albumen photographs, facsimile plates.

London 1861 Not Available USD 240.00
185 Sprague, Isaac

Wayside Flowers and Ferns. Text by The Rev. A. B. Hervey. 10 color chromolithographed botanical plates.

Troy, NY 1887 Not Available USD 144.00
186 Stoker, Bram

Dracula. The Definitive Edition. Illustrations by Edward Gorey,

New York, 1996 Not Available USD 600.00
187 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Old Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. 2 volumes.

Cambridge 1892 Not Available USD 510.00
188 The Studio

Volumes 1-49 * General Index for volumes 1-21. Together 50 volumes.

London 1893-1910 Not Available USD 390.00
189 Symonds, John Addington

Autograph Card Signed J. A. Symonds, to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., thanking them for their recent shipment and ordering another book.

Davos-Plaz, July 22 1878 Not Available USD 228.00
190 Thaxter, Celia

An Island Garden. Illustrations by Childe Hassam. Large

Boston and New York 1894 Not Available USD 570.00
191 (Thomson, Hugh).

(Thomson, Hugh). Group of 18 volumes. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Vp vd Not Available USD 840.00
192 Thomson, Hugh.

Hugh Thomson's Illustrated Fairy Books. Jack the Giant Killer. Color plates by the Author. Square

London and New York [125/175] Not Available USD 84.00
193 (Thomson, Hugh).

Barrie. The Admirable Chrichton. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson. Large

London [1914] Not Available USD 120.00
195 (Thomson, Hugh) Sheridan, Richard B.

The School for Scandal. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson.

New York and London [1911] Not Available USD 72.00
196 (Thomson, Hugh) Barrie, J. M.

Quality Street. Illustrated, including tipped-in color plates by Thomson.

[New York and London] [1913] Not Available USD 48.00
197 Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Le hamac. Fine etched print.

Np, Circa 1880 [1000/1500] Not Available USD 780.00
198 Travel

Group of 9 volumes. Illustrated.

Vp vd Not Available USD 360.00
199 Travel

Group of 15 volumes from the "Spell Series." Illustrated, including folding maps.

New York 1913-23 Not Available USD 660.00
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