New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera, 64, South Deerfield
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby |
Boston | 1859-61 | Not Available | USD 180.00 |
| 27 | William Yates | A Sunscrit Vocabulary. Containing the Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Indeclinable Particles |
Calcutta | 1820 | Not Available | USD 132.00 |
| 28 | Abel Hermant | Les Confidences d'une Aieule |
Paris | 1900 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 29 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
Boston | 1858 | Not Available | USD 96.00 |
| 30 | Robert Liston | 3 Books, including: Practical Surgery |
Vd | 1837; 1846 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 31 | Herman Mann | The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady |
Dedham, MA | 1797 | Not Available | USD 1,140.00 |
| 32 | Priscilla Wakefield | A Family Tour through the British Empire |
Philadelphia | 1804 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
| 33 | The Chemists' & Druggists' Diary |
London | 1884; 1895; 1897 | Not Available | USD 60.00 | |
| 34 | Pierre Pomet | A Compleat History of Druggs |
London | 1725 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 35 | Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum |
London | 1874-77 | Not Available | USD 216.00 | |
| 36 | William Salmon | Doron Medicum: or, A Supplement to the New London Dispensatory |
London | 1688 | Not Available | USD 216.00 |
| 37 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit; The Fellowship of the Ring |
Cambridge; London and Boston | c. 1950s; c. 1960s | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 38 | John Rutty | A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters |
London | 1757 | Not Available | USD 132.00 |
| 39 | Randal Levenson | In Search of the Monkey Girl |
New York | 1982 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 40 | Charles Dickens | Bleak House |
Copenhagen | 1858 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 41 | Louis Brocq | Precis-Atlas de Pratique Dermatologique |
Paris | 1921 | Not Available | Not Sold |
| 42 | Clement Cotton | A Large Concordance to the Bible |
London | 1635 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 43 | Charles Estienne | Dictionarium Historicum, Geographicum, Poeticum |
Oxford | 1671 | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 44 | R. U. Piper | Operative Surgery Illustrated: containing more than Nineteen Hundred Engravings |
Boston | 1852 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 45 | Ransom; Stevens; Stevens; Stevens; Faulkner; Fowles | 6 Books, including: Chills and Fever |
1924; 1947; 1936; 1931; 1940; 1969 | Not Available | USD 156.00 | |
| 46 | Finer & Savage | The Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood |
New York | 1965 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 47 | J. M. W. Turner | Liber Fluviorum; or, River Scenery of France |
London | 1853 | Not Available | USD 228.00 |
| 48 | Francis Peyre Porcher | Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests |
Charleston | 1869 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 49 | Richard Russel | A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Diseases of the Glands |
London | 1769 | Not Available | USD 240.00 |
| 50 | John Abernethy | Surgical Observations on Tumours, and on Lumbar Abscesses |
London | 1811 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
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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.