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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Maclaurin, Colin. | A Treatise of Algebra in Three Parts. |
London | 1771 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 102 | Vonnegut, Kurt. | Jr. The Sirens of Titan. |
New York | (October, 1959) | Not Available | USD 204.00 |
| 103 | Athenaeus. | Deipnosophistarum Libri Quindecim...Editio Postrema. |
Lyon | 1612 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 104 | Baskin, Leonard. | Ten Woodcuts. |
(Northampton | 1961) | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 105 | Hooker, William Jackson. | Botanical Miscellany. |
London | 1831-33 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 106 | Cooke, George. | The Botanical Cabinet. |
London | 1818 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 107 | Barton, Benjamin; & Thomas Castle. | The British Flora Medica; or, History of Medicinal Plants. |
London | 1845 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 108 | Mather, Cotton. | Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England. |
London | 1702 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 109 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. | Saggi de Novellieri Italiani d'Ogni Secolo. |
Boston | 1832 | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 110 | Stephenson, John; & James Morss Churchill. | Medical Botany. Volume IV (only). |
London | 1831 | Not Available | USD 168.00 |
| 111 | Lemmonnier. | A Synopsis of Natural History...Translated...By Thomas Wyatt. |
Philadelphia | 1839 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 112 | compiled by Charles Ellms. | Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea. |
Philadelphia | 1839 | Not Available | USD 12.00 |
| 113 | Edited by Sir Julius Vogel. | The Official Handbook of New Zealand. |
London | 1875 | Not Available | USD 24.00 |
| 114 | Scrapbook of Over 350 Call Girl Cards in a Scrapbook. |
Vp | 20th-century | Not Available | USD 450.00 | |
| 115 | Incunable Leaf. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 72.00 | |
| 116 | Bookplates. Group of Over 50 Bookplates & Manuscript Ex-Libris. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 96.00 | |
| 117 | Setzers Verglas Fasnet RemiDemi Setzer Publishing House Carnival. |
Vp | vd | Not Available | USD 12.00 | |
| 118 | By Andrew H. Ward. | Family Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Shrewsbury, Mass. |
Boston | 1847 | Not Available | USD 24.00 |
| 119 | Hollister, John Hamilcar. | Memories of Eighty Years. Autosketches, Random Notes and Reminiscences. |
Chicago, Illinois. | 1912 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 120 | By Thomas Francis Ricketts M.D. | The Diagnosis of Smallpox. |
1966 | Not Available | USD 24.00 | |
| 121 | Chitara Sanctorum [bound with]: Phiala Sanctorum. |
Bratislava | 1803 | Not Available | USD 168.00 | |
| 122 | The Hawks of America. by John Richard May. |
NYC | 1935 | Not Available | USD 60.00 | |
| 123 | Ashmun, Jehudi. By Ralph Randolph Gurley. | Life of Jehudi Ashmun Late Colonial Agent in Liberia. |
Washington | 1835 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 124 | Caverly, Robert B.. | Heroism of Hannah Duston, Together With The Indian Wars of New England. |
Boston | 1874 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 125 | Max, Peter. | Poster Book. |
New York | 1970 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
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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.