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Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Bindings, Literature Illustrated, including selections from Austin Abbery Rare Books
Auction Date
12/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Sale Number
#546
Total Lots
222
Sold Lots
216.0
Lots Sold
97.30%
Unsold Lots
6
Total Sales (USD)
70,134.00
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
217 Whitman, Walt.

Leaves of Grass. Extra-Illustrated.

1884 Not Available USD 4,200.00
13 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

[1894] Not Available USD 3,000.00
76

Group of 21 volumes. Most illustrated.

vd Not Available USD 1,800.00
125 (Jones, Owen)

The Victoria Psalter.

Circa 1861-62 Not Available USD 1,440.00
116 Humphreys, Henry Noel

Sentiments and Similes of Shakespeare. Second Edition. 106 pages chromolithographed throughout in black and gold, including a chromolithographed decorative sectional title in colors.

1857 Not Available USD 1,200.00
19 Baumann, Gustave

Frijoles Canyon Pictographs. 24 woodcuts, including a four-page folding plate SIGNED BY BAUMANN.

1939 Not Available USD 1,140.00
212 Thoreau, Henry David

Walden. Introduction by Bradford Torrey. Illustrated with photogravures. 2 volumes.

1897 Not Available USD 1,140.00
129 (Kent, Rockwell) [Squires, Frederick].

Architec-Tonics: The Tales of Tom Thumtack Architect. Illustrated by Kent.

1914 Not Available USD 1,020.00
87 Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It. Illustrated, LP from Earhart's 22 May 1932 broadcast in rear pocket.

1932 Not Available USD 1,020.00
25 Campan, Madame.

Memoirs of Marie Antoinette. Illustrated.

1906 Not Available USD 1,020.00
23 Dickens, Charles.

Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated.

1901 Not Available USD 1,020.00
32 [Boyle, Eleanor Vere].

Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum. By E. V. B.

1885 Not Available USD 960.00
63 Coquille D'Oeif Binding

Genet, Jean. Querelle de Brest.

1947 Not Available USD 960.00
191 (Thomson, Hugh).

(Thomson, Hugh). Group of 18 volumes. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

vd Not Available USD 840.00
163 Poe, Edgar Allan.

Poe, Edgar Allan. Works. Illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner. 10 volumes.

1894 Not Available USD 840.00
7 (Armstrong, Margaret)

Group of 20 volumes. Some illustrated.

vd Not Available USD 780.00
197 Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Le hamac. Fine etched print.

[1000/1500] Not Available USD 780.00
55a Carroll.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Through the Looking Glass. Together 2 volumes. Illustrated by John Tenniel.

1927; 1928 Not Available USD 780.00
179 Shakespeare, William

[Works]. The Boydell Shakespeare or The Gallery of Illustrations for Shakespeare's Dramatic Works Originally published by John Boydell.

1874 Not Available USD 720.00
121 Japanese Art

The Kokka. An Illustrated Monthly Journal of the Fine and Applied Arts of Japan and Other Eastern Countries. Illustrated, including color plates. Over 200 issues.

1889-1920s Not Available USD 720.00

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