New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List, 50, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 20, 2025 - May 20, 2025
Page Size: 225 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim.

Lustspiele.

Berlin 1767 Not Available Not Sold
2

Fuck You. A Magazine of the Arts.

New York 1965 Not Available USD 156.00
3 Kissinger, Henry A.

Autograph Typed Letter Signed, to Mr. Wolfgang Philipp, requesting his help in obtaining a few qualified applicants for a seminar.

Cambridge 1965 Not Available USD 48.00
3a

Over 250 ephemera sleeves with 9-1/2 x 12 inch cardboard insert.

Np nd Not Available USD 72.00
4 Grosjean.

Erotica. Collection of 28 original drawings

Europe nd Not Available USD 108.00
5 Turenne, Louis dela Tour.

Ludovico Mago Theses ex Universa Philosophia...Group of 13 (of 15) engraved plates by Cossin after Sevin.

Paris 1676 Not Available USD 144.00
6 [Paris, Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orle?ans].

History of the Civil War in America. By the Comte de Paris. Edited by Henry Coppee. Illustrated. 4 volumes. 8vo, cloth, paper spine-labels (faded); inner joints split, generally sound otherwise.

Philadelphia (1875-88) Not Available USD 48.00
7

Collection of over 20 lithographs, prints, engravings, etc.

Vp vd Not Available USD 36.00
8

Cartography. Group of 17 maps.

Vp vd Not Available USD 270.00
9 Baillie, Joanna.

Dramas. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary leather-backed boards; modern spine-labels, some shelf-wear, foxing, etc.

London 1836 Not Available USD 48.00
10

Group of 10 volumes scrolls, cards, etc..

Japan 20th-century Not Available USD 84.00
11 Ayre, William.

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq.

London 1745 Not Available USD 120.00
12 Bacon, Francis.

The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral of Sir Francis Bacon...To this Edition is added the Character of Queen Elizabeth; never before Printed in English. 8vo, contemporary calf ruled in blind, spine gilt in 5 compartments; front cover detached, final le

London 1696 Not Available USD 270.00
13 Hammett, Dashiell.

The Thin Man.

New York 1934 Not Available USD 120.00
14

Poets/Painters.

San Francisco: 2011 Not Available USD 48.00
15

Literature. Group of 3 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 120.00
16 [Sharp].

Remarks on a Printed Paper lately handed about...* Rowe.

London 1765; 1790s Not Available USD 24.00
17 Gaboriau, Emile.

The Widow Lerouge * Brougham.

Boston or New York: 1873; 1872 Not Available USD 12.00
18

Literature. Group of 2 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 72.00
19 Horatio Myer & Co.

Catalogue of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, Wire Woven Mattresses, Sanitary Bedding, etc.

London 1920s Not Available USD 168.00
20

Beamish. The Psychonomy of the Hand * Rouvin. La Tete Humaine etudes illustrees de Phrenologie et de Physiognomonie.

London or Paris 1865; Circa 1880s Not Available USD 84.00
21

Theatre. Volumes 1-10 & 13-16.

Carbondale and Edwardsville 1970s Not Available USD 36.00
22

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below.

Vp vd Not Available USD 96.00
23

Group of 5.

Vp vd Not Available USD 156.00
24

Musical Merchandise.

New York: 1935 Not Available USD 72.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Book of Hours by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht, Use of Sarum, in Latin, Southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1450. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Albert Einstein. Autograph letter signed, to Attilio Palatino, on his research into General Relativity, 12 May 1929. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: John Gould. The Birds of Europe, [1832-] 1837, 5 volumes, contemporary half morocco, subscriber’s copy. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern
    Now through July 10, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: Ian Fleming. A collection of James Bond first editions, 8 volumes in all. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Ending July 10: J.R.R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed, to Amy Ronald, on Pauline Baynes's map of Middle Earth, 1970. £7,000 to £10,000.
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  • DOYLE
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    July 23, 2025
    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800
  • Freeman’s | Hindman
    Western Manuscripts and Miniatures
    July 8, 2025
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FRANCESCO PETRARCH (b. Arezzo, 20 July 1304; d. Arqua Petrarca, 19 July 1374). $20,000-30,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF THE VITAE IMPERATORUM (active Milan, 1431-1459). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTI (GABRIELLO DI VANTE) (active Florence, c. 1452-c. 1520/25). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. FOLLOWER OF HERMAN SCHEERE (active London, c. 1405-1425). $15,000-20,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. An exceptionally rare, illuminated music leaf from a Mozarabic Antiphonal with sister leaves mostly in museum collections. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Exceptional leaf from a prestigious Antiphonary by a leading illuminator of the late Duecento. $11,500-14,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. CIRCLE OF THE MASTER OF MS REID 33 and SELWERD ABBEY SCRIPTORIUM (AGNES MARTINI?) (active The Netherlands, Groningen, c. 1468-1510). $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, July 8. Previously unknown illumination from one of the most renowned Gothic Choir Book sets of the Middle Ages. $6,000-8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.