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New England Book Auctions

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Books and Ephemera
Auction Date
06/10/2025 - 06/10/2025
Sale Number
#51
Total Lots
225
Sold Lots
208
Lots Sold
92.44%
Unsold Lots
17
Total Sales (USD)
22,992.00
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
63 Dickens, Charles

Group of 5 Christmas books, as listed below. Illustrated. 8vo, full red morocco by Worsfold, spines gilt in 6 compartments, top-edges gilt; lacking 1 cover, others stained or detached, some text corners stained, Lila Vanderbilt Field bookplates. SOLD-AS-I

vd Not Available USD 720.00
175

The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States 1861-1865 by Alfred Roman. 2 volumes. 3/4 Morocco by Sanford.

1884 Not Available USD 510.00
214

The Yellow Book an Illustrated Quarterly. 13 Volumes.

1894-97 Not Available USD 510.00
30 Fisher, M. F. K.

Serve It Forth. Not a Cookery Book But a Book for Everyone Who Enjoys Eating. 1st English Edition.

1937 Not Available USD 510.00
177

Early American Revolution. Group of 5 odd volumes, as listed below.

Vd Not Available USD 510.00
89 Dinesen, Isak

Out of Africa.

1938 Not Available USD 390.00
45 Williams, George W.

History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens.

1883 Not Available USD 330.00
209 Ward, Henry A.

Catalogue of Casts of Fossils, From the Principal Museums of Europe and America.

1866 Not Available USD 330.00
13 Peterson, Roger Tory

A Field Guide to the Birds. Illustrations by Peterson.

1934 Not Available USD 330.00
221

Group of 40+ U. S. Government Pamphlets.

19th-century Not Available USD 300.00
137 Spenser, Frank H.

Handbook to the Tellurium.

[1879] Not Available USD 300.00
161

Group of 10 Titles. Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica by Roth. * Japanese Photography From the Pre-War Period. * The Library of Benjamin Franklin. *...

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
61 Denman, Thomas

An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery

1801 Not Available USD 300.00
190

Group of 50+ American Political Pamphlets.

Mostly 1830s-50s Not Available USD 300.00
169 Combe, William

The Tour of Doctor Syntax. With Color plates. * The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax. With Color Plates. (1820). * The Tour of Doctor Syntax. (1844).

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
94a

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. Two 2 volume sets. (1891). * Memoirs of Gen. W., T. Sherman. 2 volumes. (1892). * ...

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
91

Group of 32 Modern Miniature Books.

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
86

Group of Pamphlets, Newspapers and Periodicals. American Notes by Charles Dickens. (1842). * The history of Charlestown Mass by Frothingham. (1847)....

Vd Not Available USD 300.00
124 Garner, Thomas; & Arthur Stratton.

The Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period. Profusion of plates.

1911 Not Available USD 240.00
222 Bible

Joseph G. Canfield's Bible. With 2 Civil War Uniform Cartes-De-Visite inserted.

1866 Not Available USD 240.00

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