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New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books & Ephemera | Total Sales (USD) | 33,348.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #66 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 215 | ||
| Sold Lots | 213.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 99.07% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 159 | McCarthy Cormac; Morrison Toni; Grafton Sue | 5 Books, including: Blood Meridian |
1965; 1970; 1985; 1987 | Not Available | USD 2,040.00 |
| 139 | Franklin Benjamin; Volney M. | N Books, including: The Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin |
1796; 1823 | Not Available | USD 1,920.00 |
| 109 | Bronte; Gaskell | The Works of the Brontes |
1857 | Not Available | USD 1,680.00 |
| 162 | Walker Alice; Morrison Toni | 2 Books, including: The Color Purple |
1970; 1982 | Not Available | USD 1,440.00 |
| 138 | N Books, including: Engines, Pumps, Valves, Gauges, Boilers, Hoisting Machinery, Meters |
N/A | Not Available | USD 720.00 | |
| 126 | Neale Mary; Southey; Edwards | N Books, including: Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale |
1796; 1797; 1794; 1798; 1821; 1804; 1801; 1803; 1828 | Not Available | USD 660.00 |
| 130 | Richardson John; Humhrey | N Books, including: The Scripture History |
1829; 1783; 1788 | Not Available | USD 660.00 |
| 157 | Bradbury Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
1953 | Not Available | USD 510.00 |
| 110 | Bronte Anne | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
1857 | Not Available | USD 480.00 |
| 188 | Maeterlinck Maurice; Moore Marianne; Stahl Ben; Smyth Paul; Sarton May; Deutsch Babette; Welty Eudora; McGlashan Norman; Apollinaire Guillaume | 10 Books, including: Mountain Paths |
1919; 1966; 1965; 1972; 1958; 1952; 1980; 1964; 1939; 1898-1913 | Not Available | USD 480.00 |
| 7 | Miro Joan | Derriere le Miroir |
1965 | Not Available | USD 420.00 |
| 129 | N Books, including: Old Town Canoes and Boats |
1934; 1955; 1936; 1920's-1950's; 1884; 1945 | Not Available | USD 420.00 | |
| 116 | Bronte | 6 Books, including: Jane Eyre |
1850; 1853; 1849 | Not Available | USD 390.00 |
| 37 | Bradbury Ray | The Stories of Ray Bradbury; Quicker Than the Eye |
1990; 1996 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
| 75 | Casanova de Seingalt Jacques; Kent Rockwell | The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
1925 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
| 201 | Sangster Margaret E.; Warton Edith; Ransome Arthur; Perlman S. J.; Powell Anthont | First Editions |
1900; 1924; 1937; 1957 | Not Available | USD 360.00 |
| 8 | Kerouac Jack | Visions of Cody |
1972 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 13 | Sewel William | The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers |
1774 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 111 | Bronte | The Works of the Brontes |
1853-55 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 133 | Crumb Robert | N Books, including: Zap Comix |
N/A | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 17 | Keate George | An account of the Pelew Islands |
1789 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 19 | Herincx F Guilielmo | Summae Theologicae Scholasticae et Moralis |
1660 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 46 | Mendon; Rigg Edward | 5 Books, including: Evidences of Revealed Religion |
1798; 1801; 1806; 1799; 1812 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 151 | Douglas William | A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America |
1760 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 165 | Barron William | History of the Colonization of the Free States of Antiquity, Applied to the Present Contest Between Great Britain and Her American Colonies |
1777 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
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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 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000