New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List, 43, South Deerfield

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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 24, 2024 - September 24, 2024
Page Size: 225 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. Folio, contemporary vellum; one cover torn and chewed with loss, some foxing, generally sound otherwise.

Vp vd Not Available USD 168.00
102 Locke, John.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Folding table in volume 1 (frayed). 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf; lacking spine-labels and covers detached, some foxing and browning, etc. (McCorrison 860).

Brattleboro, VT or Boston 1806 Not Available USD 120.00
103 Mather, Cotton.

Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary sheep, clamshell box provided; lacking spine-labels, volume 1 covers detached, some foxing and browning, etc., ex-libris S. M. Worcester. FIRST AMERICA

Hartford 1820 Not Available USD 240.00
104 Hutchinson, Thomas.

The History of the Province of Massachusetts...The Third Edition. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary sheep; shelf-worn, covers detached, generally sound.

Salem or London 1795; 1828 Not Available USD 96.00
105

Brinkley, John. Sammelband of 6 works extracted from various periodicals. 4 plates, equations within text. 4to, modern cloth, gilt-lettered spine-label; a few inner margins repaired, generally clean.

Np vd Not Available USD 168.00
106 [Brooke, Frances].

The History of Emily Montague. By Lady Julia Mandeville. 4 volumes. 12mo, contemporary acid-dyed calf, gilt-lettered spine-labels; spine-ends chipped, some covers detached, large Salem contemporary letterpress lending library bookplates

London: 1784 Not Available USD 270.00
107 Culpeper, Nicholas.

A Directory for Midwives: or, A Guide for Women, Newly corrected from many gross Errors. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo, contemporary calf; partially disbound, lacking about 20 leaves, some margin tears, etc., etc. SOLD-AS-IS.

London 1684 Not Available USD 84.00
108

Images Enfantines. Color lithographs. Folio, boards; cloth rebacked, front free endpaper detached.

Paris 1880s Not Available USD 24.00
109 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Illustrated. 8vo, gilt-decorated 3/4 brown leather; rubbed, Winslow Davis Robinson bookplate.

Boston 1858 Not Available USD 24.00
110 Ariosto, Ludovico.

Orlando Furioso...Secondo L'Edizione del MDXXXI pur cura di Ottavio Morali. Frontispiece. xxxvi, 547, [1] pages, including errata. Folio, gilt-decorated calf, all edges gilt; lacking spine, bookplates, generally clean and sound internally.

Milan 1818 [200/] Not Available USD 24.00
111

Album of Flowers. 24 (of 28) hand-colored botanicals, text and illustrations within blind-decorated borders, interleaved with blanks. 4to, black morocco decorated in gilt and blind; rebacked with most of original spine, lacking 4 plates.

London Circa 1850 Not Available USD 108.00
112

Group of 4 pamphlets bound in 1 volume, as listed below. 8vo or 12mo, calf-backed boards; covers detached, partially disbound, first with corrected imprint mounted to title verso.

Vp vd Not Available USD 60.00
113 Edward, Bryan.

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 22 maps and plates, most folding (1 large map bound upside down). 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary gilt-ruled calf; rebacked, covers detached, some foxing and browning, etc.

London 1807 Not Available USD 120.00
114 Twain, Mark.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Illustrated. 4to, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black; shelf-worn, inner joints crudely reglued, etc.

New York 1885 Not Available USD 360.00
115 Twain, Mark.

The Prince and the Pauper. Illustrated. 4to, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black; spine-ends chipped, shelf-worn, inner joints taped, lacking free endpapers and crudely replaced, etc., etc.

Boston 1882 Not Available USD 84.00
116 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de..

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. 4 volumes. 12mo, contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf; joints dried, generally sound, bound without all engraved plates. SOLD-AS-IS.

London 1731 Not Available USD 240.00
117 Blades, William.

The Enemies of Books. Second Edition. Illustrated, including folding and etched plates. 8vo, later morocco-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine-label, original wrappers bound in; inner front joint conserved, generally clean and sound otherwise.

London 1880 Not Available USD 132.00
118 [Bressler und Aschenburg, Fernand-Ludwig von].

Les Souverains du Monde. Engraved crests. Volumes 1, 3 & 4 (of 4). 8vo, contemporary mottled calf; lacking volume 2, 1 cover detached, some ink marginalia, etc. SOLD-AS-IS.

A La Haye 1721-22 Not Available USD 72.00
119 Livingston, David.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. 24 plates, wood-engraved except for steel-engraved portrait; folding geological diagram; 2 folding maps (one in rear cover pocket), woodcuts within text. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth decorated in

London 1857 Not Available USD 108.00
120 Pennant, Thomas.

Of London. 10 (of 12) plates. 4to, modern cloth-backed boards; lacking 2 plates, some foxing, etc.

London 1790 [80/] Not Available USD 48.00
121

Report of the case of Joshua Stowe vs. Sherman Converse for a Libel. 8vo, self-wrappers, uncut; lacking signature 12 (4 leaves), some foxing and soiling, etc.

New-Haven 1822 Not Available USD 24.00
122 Boswell, James.

The Life of Samuel Johnson. 2 (of 3) plates, lacking the portrait. 2 volumes. 4to, boards; lacking engraved portrait, 1 cover detached, scattered foxing.

London 1791 Not Available USD 48.00
123 Boyle, Robert.

The Works. New Edition. Volume II (only). 6 engraved plates on 5 leaves. 4to, contemporary acid-dyed calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; covers and title detached.

London 1772 Not Available USD 36.00
124 Lincoln, Abraham.

Complete Works. Biographical Edition. Illustrated. 12 volumes. 8vo, cloth, top-edges gilt; spine-ends frayed, generally sound, owner's ink stamps.

New York: -1905 Not Available USD 24.00
125 Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Essays. 8vo, publisher's cloth; spine chipped with loss, generally sound internally, George W. Briggs and L. B. R. Briggs ink ex-libris. FIRST EDITION. (BAL 5189

New York: -1905 Not Available USD 270.00
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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