New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List, 63, South Deerfield
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 21, 2026 - April 21, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Melville, Herman. | Redburn: His First Voyage. |
New York | 1849 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 27 | Hummel, J. | Die Saulenordnungen nach Vitruv mit einigen Saulenordnungen von den vorzuglichsten alten Monumenten...30 plates. |
Berlin | 1840 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 28 | L'Autographe. De Villemessant Editor. |
Paris | 1871-72 | Not Available | USD 12.00 | |
| 29 | Baud-Bovy, Daniel; & Frederic Boissonnas. | Des Cyclades en Crete au gre du vent. |
Geneva | 1919 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 30 | Vosgien. | Nouveau Dictionnaire Geographique Universel. |
Paris | 1829 | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 31 | Domes-day Book: seu liber censualis Wilhelmi primi]. |
London | 1783 | Not Available | USD 120.00 | |
| 32 | Missale Romanum. |
Lyon | 1764 | Not Available | Not Sold | |
| 33 | Dickens, Charles. | [Christmas Books]. |
London | vd | Not Available | USD 3,000.00 |
| 34 | Institutiones chirurgicae. |
Amsterdam | 1750 | Not Available | USD 108.00 | |
| 35 | Fables Ancient and Modern Illustrations by Alexander Anderson. |
Philadelphia | 1811 | Not Available | USD 84.00 | |
| 36 | Decorative Bindings. Group of 15 Titles most are 1st Editions. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 120.00 | |
| 37 | Dyke, Daniel. | Two Treatises. The One, Repentance, The Other of Christs Temptations. [bound after]: The Deceitfulnes Of Mans Heart. |
London | 1631 | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 38 | Edmund Shaftsbury. | Home Training Courses Embracing All Human Powers. |
Meriden, CT | vd | Not Available | USD 420.00 |
| 39 | James, Henry. | The Reverberator. |
London and New York | 1888 | Not Available | USD 156.00 |
| 40 | Durrieu, Paul. | Les Antiquites Judaiques et le Peintre Jean Foucquet. |
Paris | 1908 | Not Available | USD 12.00 |
| 41 | Mays-Carenage. | Aventures Terribles et Incroyables de 3 Petits Noirs. |
Paris | Circa 1920s | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 42 | Handwritten Book of Witticisms. |
Vp | 1920's | Not Available | USD 60.00 | |
| 43 | Edited by Niels Hoyer. | Man Into Woman. An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex. |
New York | 1933 | Not Available | USD 570.00 |
| 44 | The Ancient Sculptures in the Roof of Norwich Cathedral. |
London | 1876 | Not Available | USD 48.00 | |
| 45 | By Lemoisne. | Les Xylographies Du XIV Et De XV Siecle Au Cabinet Des Estampes De La Bibliotheque National. |
Paris | 1927 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
| 46 | Song & Sun. The Cultural Revolution: A Bibliography. |
Cambridge or Berkeley | (1998; 1976) | Not Available | USD 36.00 | |
| 47 | Limited Editions. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 144.00 | |
| 48 | Marshall, John. | The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces. |
Philadelphia | 1805-07 | Not Available | USD 1,320.00 |
| 49 | Ukiyo-e. Collection of 79 (of 80) reproductions of prints. |
Np | Circa 1900s | Not Available | USD 24.00 | |
| 50 | .Edited by Jacob Bailey. | Totius Latinitatis Lexicon.. |
London | 1828 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.