New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera, 64, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
Page Size: 212 items in 9 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101

9 Books, including: The Shipwreck; or Humanity Rewarded

1823; 1818; 1803; 1826 Not Available USD 216.00
102 Sweet

Maps on Report of State Engineer on Canals

New York 1880s Not Available USD 120.00
103 Mortimer Borne

Borne. Drypoints, Etchings, Color Drypoints

New York 1980 Not Available USD 84.00
104 Emile Bourgeois

France Under Louis XIV

New York 1897 Not Available USD 192.00
105

3 Books, including: General Store

1877-78; 1819; 1839-40 Not Available USD 132.00
106 William Camden

Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland

London 1806 Not Available USD 270.00
107 Reilly; Moll; Hondius

3 Books, including: Die Gegend um Wien

ND Not Available USD 270.00
108 Denman W. Ross; Edgar O. Parker; S. Clifford Patchett

Illustrations of Balance and Rhythm

Boston 1900 Not Available USD 60.00
109 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Complete Works

Boston; New York c. 1900 Not Available USD 216.00
110

The Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, and that of the United States; The Declaration of Independence, with President Washington's Farewell Address

Brookfield, MA 1807 Not Available USD 48.00
111 Sturgis; Forman; Bates

3 Books, including: My Busy Days

1908; 1892; 1921 Not Available USD 48.00
112 Jean Jaques Rousseau

Emile, ou de L'Education

Amsterdam 1773 Not Available USD 156.00
113

Manuscript Account Book for a paper mill

1832-44 Not Available USD 540.00
114 Quintus Curtius Rufus

Historia Alexandri Magni

Amsterdam 1664 Not Available USD 180.00
115 Nicolas Bion

The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments

London 1758 Not Available USD 36.00
116 T. S. Eliot

Poems. 1909-1925

London 1925 Not Available USD 72.00
117

Copybook of letters for a tobacco company

New York 1898-1901 Not Available USD 60.00
118

Thomas I. Simpson's Catalogue and Price List

Long Island, NY 1885 Not Available USD 132.00
119

Copybook for the Yale Cyclometer Co.

Connecticut 1890s Not Available USD 36.00
120

Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890

Washington 1893 Not Available USD 84.00
121

The Bibliophilist's Library Second Series

Philadelphia c. 1900 Not Available USD 216.00
122 John Page; Henry Hubbard

Autograph Document Signed; Autograph Document Signed

New Hampshire 1840; 1844 Not Available USD 48.00
123

Nast's Illustrated Almanac

New York 1872; 1875 Not Available USD 96.00
124 Sigmund Freud

The Major of Sigmund Freud

Pennsylvania 1981 Not Available USD 60.00
125 Ian Fleming

Thunderball

New York 1961 Not Available USD 48.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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.