Auction Reports
New England Book Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Literature, Graphics, Travel, American + More
- Auction Date
- 06/17/2025 - 06/17/2025
- Sale Number
- #540
- Total Lots
- 178
- Sold Lots
- 163
- Lots Sold
- 91.57%
- Unsold Lots
- 15
- Total Sales (USD)
- 61,260.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 0.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 0.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 0.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 0.00
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | (Kent, Rockwell) Melville, Herman. | Moby Dick, or, The Whale. |
1930 | Not Available | USD 7,800.00 |
| 181 | [Williams, Isaac]. | Aunt Sally; or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan. |
1858 | Not Available | USD 2,700.00 |
| 57 | Child, Lydia Maria | An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans. |
1833 | Not Available | USD 2,400.00 |
| 82 | (Douglass, Frederick) Griffiths, Julia, Editor. | Autographs for Freedom. |
1853 | Not Available | USD 2,160.00 |
| 207 | Woolf, Virginia | The Waves. |
1931 | Not Available | USD 2,160.00 |
| 19 | Beaumont, John | An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices. |
1705 | Not Available | USD 2,040.00 |
| 179 | Shriner Autograph Album. Remembrances of the Imperial Council [cover-title]. |
1900 | Not Available | USD 1,440.00 | |
| 26 | Brassai. Text by Paul Morand. | Paris de Nuit. |
[1933] | Not Available | USD 1,140.00 |
| 52 | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | Don Quixote de la Mancha. |
1819 | Not Available | USD 1,080.00 |
| 118 | Jelen, Nicolette | A Dog Story. |
1987 | Not Available | USD 900.00 |
| 91 | Fenning, Daniel | Universal Spelling-Book; or, A New and Easy Guide to the English Language. |
1773 | Not Available | USD 840.00 |
| 75 | Custer, George Armstrong | My Life on the Plains; or, Personal Experiences with Indians. |
1874 | Not Available | USD 840.00 |
| 168 | Pumphrey, W. H | W. H. Pumphrey's Map of Western Washington. |
1891 | Not Available | USD 780.00 |
| 152 | (Palmer, Samuel) | Virgil. The Eclogues. |
1883 | Not Available | USD 780.00 |
| 163 | Piracy | Piratical Barbarity or the Female Captive...the Unparalleled sufferings of Miss Lucretia Parker. |
1826 | Not Available | USD 780.00 |
| 11 | Aspen Magazine. |
1965-71 | Not Available | USD 720.00 | |
| 146 | Bureau of American Ethnology. Group of 41 volumes, as listed below. |
1879 | Not Available | USD 660.00 | |
| 174 | The Roman Martyrologe... |
1667 | Not Available | USD 570.00 | |
| 49 | Stream of Time or Chart of universal history, from the original German of Strass. |
1855 | Not Available | USD 570.00 | |
| 24 | Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451. |
1982 | Not Available | USD 570.00 |
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
