New England Book Auctions: Early Printing Americana, 552, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 26, 2026 - May 26, 2026
Page Size: 213 items in 9 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

A Conspiracie Discovered. Or The Report Of a Committee to the House of Commons in Parliament

London 1641 Not Available USD 180.00
2 Phelps Amos A.

Lectures on Slavery and its Remedy

Boston 1834 Not Available USD 240.00
3

Accounts for the Jefferson Paper Mill

New York 1813-1817 Not Available USD 1,140.00
4

Manuscript accounts for a dry goods store

New York 1855-1857 Not Available USD 120.00
5 Accum Frederick

System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry

Philadelphia 1808 Not Available USD 72.00
6 Acosta Cristobal

Trattato ... della Historia, Natura, et Virtu delle Droghe Medicinali & altri Semplici Rarissimi

Venice 1585 Not Available USD 840.00
7 Adams Henry

Documents Relating to New-England Federalism. 1800-1815

Boston 1877 Not Available USD 144.00
8 Leighton John

A Grammar of the Mpongwe Language, with Vocabularies

New York 1847 Not Available USD 168.00
9

Illustrated Catalogue of Street Railway Cars and Suburban Coaches

St. Louis 1896 Not Available USD 300.00
10

Group of 4 pamphlets, including: Inaugural Address of Hon. W. G. Ritch, President

Santa Fe; Philadelphia; Boston; Detroit 1881; 1841; 1829; 1857; 1895 Not Available USD 60.00
11

De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae, et nominatim de priuilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, atque de Archiepiscopis eiusdem LXX. Historia

Hanau 1605 Not Available USD 144.00
12 Stannus Hugh

Alfred Stevens and His Work

London 1891 Not Available Not Sold
13

Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades

Norwich 1795 Not Available USD 192.00
14 Viven de St. Martin

Asie Mineure ou Natolie

Paris 1845 Not Available USD 168.00
15 Athenaeus

Deipnosophistarum Libri Quindecim

Lyon 1612 Not Available USD 240.00
16

World Atlas

Poughkeepsie, NY 1818 Not Available USD 120.00
17 Edwin Swift Balch

Mount McKinley and Mountain Climbers' Proofs

Philadelphia 1914 Not Available USD 132.00
18 Aaron Bancroft

An Essay on the Life of George Washington

Worcester 1807 Not Available USD 450.00
19 Hubert H. Bancroft

The Book of the Fair

Chicago and San Francisco 1893 Not Available Not Sold
20 Daniel Baud-Bovy; Fred. Boissonnas

En Grece par Monts et par Vaux

Geneva 1936 Not Available USD 300.00
21 Daniel Baud-Bovy; Frederic Boissonnas

En Grece par monts et par vaux

Geneva 1910 Not Available USD 720.00
22 Venerable Beda

Opera Quaedam Theologica

London 1693 Not Available USD 156.00
23 David Beman

The Mysteries of Trade, or the Great Source of Wealth

Boston 1825 Not Available USD 96.00
24 D. Johan Dietenberger

Bibell das ist Ale Bucher Alts und News Testament

Cologne 1590 Not Available USD 570.00
25 John D. Billings

Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life

Boston 1887 Not Available USD 132.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] 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: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.