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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | Colin Mackenzie | One Thousand Experiments in Chemistry; With Illustrations of Natural Phenomena |
London | 1822 | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 127 | Benj. Butterworth | The Growth of Industrial Art |
Washington | 1892 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 128 | The Book of Baseball. The National Game From The Earliest Days to The Present Season |
Washington | 1911 | Not Available | USD 270.00 | |
| 129 | F. H. Getchell | Illustrated Encyclopedia of Obstetrics |
Philadelphia | 1885 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 130 | L. Clarkson | Indian Summer Autumn Poems and Sketches |
New York | 1881 | Not Available | USD 48.00 |
| 131 | Plato | The Works of Plato |
Pennsylvania | 1979 | Not Available | USD 108.00 |
| 132 | Queen's Dolls House Postcards |
London | 1924 | Not Available | USD 36.00 | |
| 133 | Winfield S. Schley | Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U.S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884 |
Washington | 1887 | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
| 134 | La Roy Sunderland | Pathetism; with Practical Instructions. Demonstrating the Falsity of the prevalent assumptions in regard to what has been called "Mesmerism" and "Neurology" and illustrating those laws which induce Somnambulism, Second Sight, Sleep, Dreaming, Trance, and |
New York | 1843 | Not Available | USD 390.00 |
| 135 | The Guide, or Counsellor of Human Life |
Springfield | 1794 | Not Available | USD 24.00 | |
| 136 | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia |
Greenfield, MA | 1795 | Not Available | USD 24.00 |
| 137 | The Dana Centennial |
Barre, MA | 1901 | Not Available | USD 36.00 | |
| 138 | J. M. Gilliss | The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere |
Washington | 1855 | Not Available | USD 84.00 |
| 139 | Richard M. Nixon | Six Crises; The Memoires |
New York | 1962; 1978 | Not Available | USD 144.00 |
| 140 | Felix Salten | Bambi. A Life in the Woods |
New York | 1928 | Not Available | USD 72.00 |
| 141 | Aristotle | The Works of Aristotle |
Pennsylvania | 1978 | Not Available | USD 156.00 |
| 142 | Queen's Dollhouse Postcards |
London | 1924 | Not Available | USD 36.00 | |
| 143 | Ida M. Tarbell | The History of The Standard Oil Company |
Springfield | 1904 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 144 | James Joyce | Ulysses |
Springfield | 1928 | Not Available | USD 12.00 |
| 145 | John Bourne; The Artizan Club | A Treatise on the Steam Engine in its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways |
London | 1846 | Not Available | USD 36.00 |
| 146 | Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language |
Springfield, Mass | 1929 | Not Available | USD 36.00 | |
| 147 | Thomas Dilworth | The Schoolmasters Assisant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, Both Practical and Theoretical |
Philadelphia | 1781 | Not Available | USD 192.00 |
| 148 | Nicolas Pike | A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, Composed for the Citizens of the United States |
Newbury-Port | 1738 | Not Available | USD 144.00 |
| 149 | Thomas Roscoe | The Tourist in Italy |
London | 1832 | Not Available | USD 12.00 |
| 150 | Richard Morton | Pyretologias, Pars Altera: Sive, Exercitatio de Febrius Inmflammatoriis Universalibus |
Londini | 1694 | Not Available | USD 60.00 |
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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.