• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.

New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera, 49, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2025
Page Size: 223 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Stock book. Collection of over 500 mostly used; some with hinge residue.

Vp Mostly 20th-century Not Available Not Sold
2

Stock book. Collection of over 300 mostly used; some with hinge residue.

Europe Mostly 20th-century Not Available Not Sold
3 Humboldt, Alexander Von

Vues des Cordilleres, et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de L'Amerique. 19 engraved plates, some colored. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary acid-dyed calf; spines split and text partially disbound, some foxing. (Sabin 33750; Palau 117027).

Paris 1816 Not Available USD 480.00
4

Morgan, William; & Augustin Creuze. Papers on Naval Architecture...Volume I (only). Diagrams (some folding). 8vo, contemporary gilt-decorated straight grain brown morocco, all edges gilt; light wear.

London 1827 Not Available USD 72.00
5

The Southern Workman. Volumes XXXVI & LV. Illustrated. 8vo, leather-backed boards; shelf-worn, several margins cello-tape repaired, partially misbound, etc.

Hampton 1908; 1926 Not Available USD 72.00
6

National Monument to the Forefathers. Engraved receipt for a contribution. 8-1/2 x 11 inches; tear at upper margin with some loss. SIGNED BY ARCHITECT HAMMATT BILLINGS.

Boston 1855 Not Available USD 36.00
7

Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. Profusion of hand-colored plates. 4to or smaller; leather or leather-backed boards; last covers partially detached and some margins stained, some foxing, generally sound otherwise.

Vp vd Not Available USD 108.00
8

Original photograph of Richard Nixon at his White House desk. 9 x 13-1/4 inches, mounted to board.

[Washington] 1973 Not Available Not Sold
9

Register of Official Letters. Manuscript accounts of a law firm. Over 120 pages detailing rewards, case expense, letters of allotment, etc. Folio, cloth; moderate wear.

England 1873-76 Not Available USD 72.00
10 Gibbon, Edward.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps. 12 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf; rebacked and endpapers renewed, some foxing, etc. (Norton 56).

London 1807 Not Available USD 420.00
11

Group of 3 leaves, as listed below. Each with woodcut illustration. Various sizes; second torn, some soiling, etc.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
12

Collection of 30 clipped autographs. Various sizes; moderate wear.

Vp vd Not Available USD 84.00
13 Hedin, Sven.

Overland to India. Illustrated. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth; extremities worn, inner joints split and frontispiece detached in volume 1, generally sound internally.

London 1910 Not Available USD 84.00
14

Sketch book. Original pencil drawings of architectural motifs, landscapes and other images. 16 leaves, mostly on rectos only. Oblong 8vo, cloth; moderate wear.

England Circa 1900s Not Available USD 24.00
15

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. First 2 illustrated. 8vo or 12mo, first wrappers; varying wear, some foxing, etc.

Vp vd Not Available USD 84.00
16

Group of 6 odd volumes, as listed below. Most illustrated. 8vo or smaller, contemporary leather or wrappers; varying wear, some foxing, etc.

Vp vd Not Available USD 84.00
17 Gouffe, Jules.

The Royal Cookery Book.

London 1868 Not Available USD 156.00
18

Group of 26 Titles in the Firearms Classics Library. Full Gilt Embossed Leather.

Birmingham Al Not Available USD 216.00
19 Carnegie, David W..

Spinifex and Sand. A narrative of five years pioneering and exploration in Western Australia. 2 Maps in Rear Pocket. Map at Page 1 and Page 135. Split binding. Ex library.

London 1898 Not Available USD 270.00
20 Norman, Henry.

The Peoples and Politics of The Far East.

NY 1895 Not Available USD 36.00
21 Jung, Dr. K. E..

Australia The Country and Its Inhabitants.

London 1884 Not Available USD 60.00
22

Stockbook of 100s of mostly used American stamps.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 24.00
23 David-Neel, Alexandra.

My Journey to Lhasa. The Personal Story of the only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City.

New York & London 1927 Not Available USD 72.00
24

Group of 11 Trade Catalogs. Boilers, Ranges, Reading Stove Works, Etc.

Vp Vd Not Available USD 108.00
25 Forbes, Rosita.

Forbidden Road - Kabul to Samarkand. 1st Edition.

NY 1937 Not Available USD 144.00
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    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
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    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
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