New England Auctions: Historical, Medical Antiques, Medals & Books, 50726, Branford
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 07, 2026 - May 07, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 658 | Stevenson; Browning; Swinburne; Pater; Matthew Arnold; Wordsworth | Five fine bindings printed by Thomas Moser 1907-1910, and bound by The Rose Bindery, Boston. Two by Stevenson, and one each by Browning, Swinburne, and Pater. All uniquely bound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper covers. Top edges gilt. All in near fine co |
Boston; London | 1907-1910; 1906 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 720.50 |
| 659 | Samuel G. Drake; Hubert Howe Bancroft; Egerton Ryerson Young; Dr. Joseph K. Dixon; George Bird Grinnell; Marian W. Smith | A collection of histories concerning native North Americans, some scholarly, some not so much. Total of 6 lots comprising 12 volumes. |
Boston; New York; London; Garden City New York; New Haven; New York | 1839; 1875; 1894; 1914; 1923; 1926; 1949 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 458.50 |
| 660 | William Temple Franklin | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin |
London | 1833 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 458.50 |
| 661 | Charles Dickens | The Works |
London | N/A | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 262.00 |
| 662 | Count De Buffon | Natural History, General and Particular |
London | 1812 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 589.50 |
| 663 | Charles Dickens | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
London; Boston | N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 327.50 |
| 664 | Herbert Spencer | Works |
NY | 1898-99 | USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 196.50 |
| 665 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland |
New York | 1866 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,205.00 |
| 666 | William Curtis | Lectures on Botany, as delivered to his pupils |
1803/1804 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 786.00 | |
| 667 | Robert Frost; Rockwell Kent; F. Gray Griswold; J. Stanley Reeve | Mountain Interval; Salamina; El Greco; Fox Hunting Formalities |
New York; New York; New York | 1924; 1935; 1930; 1930 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 786.00 |
| 668 | Lothar Meggendorfer; Robert Browning; W.P. Pycraft; Eugene Field; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Kenneth Grahame; Charles and Mary Lamb; Jules Verne; Ralph D. Paine; Richmond I. Kelsey | 10 illustrated children's books |
London; London; New York; London and New York; London W.C. 2; New York; Philadelphia; Boston | ca. 1890; ND; ca. 1910; 1904; MCMXX; 1902; 1909; 1927; 1922; 1948 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 327.50 |
| 669 | Mrs. Inchbald | The British Theatre; A Collection of Farces |
London | 1808; 1809 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 458.50 |
| 670 | E.A. Poe | Works |
New York | 1902; 1895 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 589.50 |
| 671 | Manley Wood | The Plays of William Shakspeare |
London | 1806 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 524.00 |
| 672 | John Ciardi; George Gershwin; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Walter Hawley; Rosa Bell Holt; Gustave Flaubert; Henry James | The Man Who Sang The Sillies; George Gershwin's Song Book; Cross Creek Cookery; Oriental Rugs Antique and Modern; Oriental and Occidental Rugs; Madam Bovary; The Turn Of the Screw |
New York; Los Angeles | 1961; 1932; 1942; 1927; 1937; ND; 1949 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 163.75 |
| 673 | Dante Alighieri | L' Inferno |
Parigi | 1861 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 589.50 |
| 674 | James Ford Rhodes | History of the United States from The Compromise of 1850 to The Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877 |
New York | 1907 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 327.50 |
| 675 | Benson J. Lossing | A History of the Civil War |
New York | 1912 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 98.25 |
| 676 | Michaud | History of the Crusades |
N/A | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 229.25 | |
| 677 | Alexander de Riquer | Ex-libris Williams and Northgate |
1903 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 393.00 | |
| 678 | Rabbi Abraham Elzas; Elbert Hubbard; Elbert Hubbard II; Benjamin Franklin; Elbert Hubbard; Fra Elbertus; Mabel Powers | The Book of Job; The Journal of Koheleth; The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard; Poor Richard's Almanack; A Little Journey To The Home of Benjamin Franklin; Ali Baba; The Portage Trail |
Roycroft-Town | 1897; 1896; 1916; 1924; 1924; 1926; 1924 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,965.00 |
| 679 | Indian Notes |
1920s | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 655.00 | ||
| 680 | Where The Two Came To Their Father', Navajo War Ceremonial |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 524.00 | ||
| 681 | John L. Stephens | Incidents of Travel in Yucatan |
N/A | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 262.00 |
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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.