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New England Book Auctions: Literature, Graphics, Travel, American + More

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Auction Name Literature, Graphics, Travel, American + More Total Sales (USD) 61,260.00
Auction Date June 17, 2025 - June 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #540 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 178
Sold Lots 163 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 91.57% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
123 (Kent, Rockwell) Melville, Herman.

Moby Dick, or, The Whale.

1930 Not Available USD 7,800.00
181 [Williams, Isaac].

Aunt Sally; or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan.

1858 Not Available USD 2,700.00
57 Child, Lydia Maria

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans.

1833 Not Available USD 2,400.00
82 (Douglass, Frederick) Griffiths, Julia, Editor.

Autographs for Freedom.

1853 Not Available USD 2,160.00
207 Woolf, Virginia

The Waves.

1931 Not Available USD 2,160.00
19 Beaumont, John

An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices.

1705 Not Available USD 2,040.00
179

Shriner Autograph Album. Remembrances of the Imperial Council [cover-title].

1900 Not Available USD 1,440.00
26 Brassai. Text by Paul Morand.

Paris de Nuit.

[1933] Not Available USD 1,140.00
52 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Don Quixote de la Mancha.

1819 Not Available USD 1,080.00
118 Jelen, Nicolette

A Dog Story.

1987 Not Available USD 900.00
75 Custer, George Armstrong

My Life on the Plains; or, Personal Experiences with Indians.

1874 Not Available USD 840.00
91 Fenning, Daniel

Universal Spelling-Book; or, A New and Easy Guide to the English Language.

1773 Not Available USD 840.00
152 (Palmer, Samuel)

Virgil. The Eclogues.

1883 Not Available USD 780.00
163 Piracy

Piratical Barbarity or the Female Captive...the Unparalleled sufferings of Miss Lucretia Parker.

1826 Not Available USD 780.00
168 Pumphrey, W. H

W. H. Pumphrey's Map of Western Washington.

1891 Not Available USD 780.00
11

Aspen Magazine.

1965-71 Not Available USD 720.00
146

Bureau of American Ethnology. Group of 41 volumes, as listed below.

1879 Not Available USD 660.00
24 Bradbury, Ray

Fahrenheit 451.

1982 Not Available USD 570.00
49

Stream of Time or Chart of universal history, from the original German of Strass.

1855 Not Available USD 570.00
148 Aubrey, John.

Miscellanies..The Second Edition [bound after:] Bourne, Henry. Antiquaties Vulgares; or, the Antiquities of the Common People.

1721; 1725 Not Available USD 570.00
174

The Roman Martyrologe...

1667 Not Available USD 570.00
13 [Atwood, John M.]

Map of the United States, with its Territories; also Mexico and the West Indies.

1856 Not Available USD 540.00
103

Five Hundred Years of Women's Work.

2019 Not Available USD 540.00
63 Genlis, Stepanie Felicite, Comtesse de.

Arabesques Mythologiques.

1810 Not Available USD 510.00
137 Harley, J. B.; & David Woodward.

The History of Cartography.

1987-2015 Not Available USD 510.00
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