New England Book Auctions: Early Printing Americana, 552, South Deerfield
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 26, 2026 - May 26, 2026
| 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 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000Freeman’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 JuneSotheby’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.