Back

New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Books & Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 35,322.00
Auction Date April 22, 2025 - April 22, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #49 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 223
Sold Lots 209 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 93.72% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 14 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
195 Verne, Jules.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; covers worn, lacking part of spine, inner front joint crudely glued, first signature detached and chipped, etc, etc. SOLD-AS-IS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Myers 56)

1873 Not Available USD 2,700.00
118 Austen, Jane.

The Novels of Jane Austen. 12 volumes.

1899 Not Available USD 1,560.00
184

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. 8vo, cloth, dust jackets (frayed); moderate wear.

vd Not Available USD 1,020.00
186 Austen, Jane.

Persuasion. Volume II (only). Tall 12mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, paper spine-label, uncut; front inner joint crudely repaired, some foxing and soiling, etc. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Gilson B3).

1832 Not Available USD 1,020.00
223 Anthony, Susan B..

History of Woman Suffrage. (4) volumes. 1889-1902.

Vd Not Available USD 840.00
58 Milton, John.

Paradise Lost. A Poem. 2 volumes. Full leather.

1760 Not Available USD 780.00
107 Williams, William.

Oxonia Depicta sive collegiorum met Aularum in inclyta AcademiaOxoniensi. 58 (of 66) engraved plates, most double-page. Folio, loose in portfolio; some margin stains, lacking several plates. SOLD-AS-IS.

1733 Not Available USD 600.00
134

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated with folding maps. 8vo or 12mo, contemporary leather or sheep; shelf-worn, last lacking maps.

vd Not Available USD 600.00
62 Eekman, N. M..

Dood-dans in Zeven Tempo's (Death in Seven Days). Woodcut Title & 7 Woodcuts Printed on Japanese Toshi. SIGNED & Numbered in Pencil on Bottom Edge of Last Woodcut. Image 6" x 10.75". Published in Paris.

1924 Not Available USD 510.00
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).

1816 Not Available USD 480.00
30 Stein, M. Aurel.

Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 2 volumes. Ex library.

1912 Not Available USD 480.00
160

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 1st US Edition. (1971). * Ariel Poems by Sylvia Plath. Later Printing. * Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. 6th Printing. (1973).

Vd Not Available USD 480.00
87 Baudot, A. de; & A. Perrault-Dabot.

Archives de la Commission des Monuments Historiques. 500 heliogravure plates. 5 volumes. Folio, gilt-lettered morocco-backed boards; rubbed, generally clean and sound.

[1898-1903] Not Available USD 450.00
115

The Tournament; or, Days of Chivalry. With 24 Color Plates. Full leather.

1823 Not Available USD 450.00
119 Key, Francis S..

Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. Star Spangled Banner (page 31).

1857 Not Available USD 450.00
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).

1807 Not Available USD 420.00
137 (Rowland, Thomas).

Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. 24 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and blind; front cover detached, some offsetting of plates, generally sound otherwise.

1823 Not Available USD 390.00
168 Woolf, Virginia.

A Room of One's Own. 8vo, cloth (soiled); moderate wear. FIRST EDITION. (Kirkpatrick A12b).

1929 Not Available USD 390.00
192 Verne, Jules.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; inner joints split, lacking free endpapers, some soiling, etc.

1875 Not Available USD 390.00
100 Curtius Rufus, Quintus.

De Rebus gestis Alexandri magni Macedonum regis historia. Woodcut device on title. 436, [27] pages. 12mo, old calf ruled in blind; lacking spine, front cover and title partially detached and frayed, some marginalia, a few margins trimmed close, ink ex-lib

1548 Not Available USD 360.00
221 Lossing, B. J..

Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. (2) volumes. 3/4 leather.

1851 Not Available USD 360.00
138

White Mountain Guide. 1935, 1952, 1955 & 1960. Together 4 volumes. Folding maps. 8vo, cloth; moderate wear.

vd Not Available USD 330.00
163 (Poe, Edgar Allan).

Eleonora. [in:] The Gift. Frontispiece, additional title, engraved plates. 8vo, original straight grain morocco gilt, all edges gilt; lacking part of spine, bottom margin stained, etc. FIRST APPEARANCE.

1842 [i.e. 1841] Not Available USD 330.00
183 [Toepffer, Rodolphe].

The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. Lithograph illustrations. 80 pages. Oblong 8vo, contemporary cloth; crude cloth tape on spine, some soiling, margin tears, etc.

1840s Not Available USD 330.00
28

Copy of Codex Cotton Ms. Nero D. IV. Full leather.

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR