New England Book Auctions: Literature, Childrens, Prints and Ephemera, 536, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025
Page Size: 208 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Albers, Josef.

Olympische Spiele Munich 1972.

Np 1970 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 144.00
2

American Revolution. Uncut engraved currency sheet of 4 different denominations

South Carolina 1778 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
3

American Revolution. Uncut engraved currency sheet of 4 different denominations

Pennsylvania 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
4

Americana. Group of over 100 pamphlets.

Most Washington 1815-1819 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 360.00
5

Americana. Group of over 70 pamphlets.

Vp 1820-29 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 228.00
6

Americana. Group of over 100 pamphlets.

Vp 1815-19 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 420.00
7

Americana. Group of over 70 pamphlets.

Vp 1820-29 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 216.00
8

Ancient Coins.

Vp vd USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 72.00
9

Architecture. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration.

Boston 1895-1903 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 168.00
10 Jepsen, J. G.

Armstrong, Louis. Louis Armstrong Tsumura Collection.

[Japan] -1989 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 84.00
11 Bolton, Ken.

Art of the Book. The Terrific Days of Summer.

(Katoomba, NSW) -1998 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
12

Asian Coins.

Vp vd USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 84.00
13 Julian, George Washington.

Autograph. Autograph Letter to Dear Addison, discussing how he will miss his best clerk Lizzie.

Santa Fe 1886 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 36.00
14

Autograph Album.

England 1880s USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 96.00
15

Autograph Guest Book. Autograph Guest Book for BWAVU House.

Uganda 1920s-30s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
16 Barrie, James M.

The Little Minister.

London 1891 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 84.00
17

Baseball. Spalding's Base Ball Guide.

New York 1911 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 180.00
18 (Bierstadt, E.).

Sunlight Pictures Amherst.

New-York -1891 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 180.00
19

Binding. Heures du Moyen Age.

Paris 1862 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 360.00
20

Bindings. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 84.00
21

Bindings. Group of 13 volumes.

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 330.00
22

Bindings. Group of 20 volumes.

Vp vd USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 360.00
23

Bindings. Group of 10 volumes.

Vp vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 390.00
24

Black Cat Press. Group of 3 miniatures, as listed below.

Chicago -1945 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 48.00
25

Black Cat Press. Group of 20 miniature volumes, as listed below.

Illinois vd USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 144.00
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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