New England Book Auctions: A Fine Miscellany
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | A Fine Miscellany | Total Sales (USD) | 88,476.00 |
| Auction Date | July 22, 2025 - July 22, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #541 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 201 | ||
| Sold Lots | 188 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 93.53% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 13 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Architecture. Executed Work. Volumes III-VI & VIII-IX * Sketch Designs. |
1890s-1900s | Not Available | USD 9,600.00 | |
| 79 | (Franklin, Benjamin). Evans, Lewis. | Geographical, Historical, Political, Philosophical and Mechanical Essays. |
1756 | Not Available | USD 9,000.00 |
| 161 | Pyne, W. H. | The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. |
1819 | Not Available | USD 4,200.00 |
| 90 | Haeckel, Ernst. | Kunstformen der Natur. |
1904 | Not Available | USD 3,300.00 |
| 110 | Kazantzaki, Nikos. | Zorba The Greek. |
1952 | Not Available | USD 3,300.00 |
| 145 | Morse, Jedidiah. | Geography Made Easy. |
1784 | Not Available | USD 3,000.00 |
| 74 | [Carne, Elizabeth T.], John Altrayd Wittitterly. | Three Months' Rest at Pau in the Winter and Spring of 1859. |
1860 | Not Available | USD 2,040.00 |
| 55 | Colonial New Jersey. Important archive of over 40 deeds, surveys, plans, etc., pertaining to the ownership and dispersal of the Thomas Byerly tract of land ... |
1701-1818 | Not Available | USD 1,920.00 | |
| 14 | Astronomy. The Heavens Illustrated, in A Series of Plates. |
1844 | Not Available | USD 1,800.00 | |
| 64 | (Degas, Edgar). Maupassant, Guy de. | La Maison Tellier. |
1934 | Not Available | USD 1,680.00 |
| 81 | Galilei (Galileo). | Systema Cosmicum [-Discursus et Demonstrationes Mathematicae, circa duas novas scientias]. |
1699 | Not Available | USD 1,680.00 |
| 27 | The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. |
1887 | Not Available | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 173 | Eldridge, Elleanor | Elleanor's Second Book. |
1839 | Not Available | USD 1,320.00 |
| 20 | Beckett, Samuel. | Nohow On. |
1989 | Not Available | USD 1,200.00 |
| 165 | Rivers of America. | Rivers of America. Collection of 61 volumes. |
vd | Not Available | USD 1,140.00 |
| 61 | Conrad, Joseph. | Heart of Darkness. Etchings by Sean Scully. |
1992 | Not Available | USD 1,080.00 |
| 94 | Hersey, John. | Hiroshima. |
1983 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 |
| 100 | Yabuki, T. | The Stage Photograph-Album Ten Years of Imperial Theatre. |
1920 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 |
| 180 | Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. | The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. |
1915-28 | Not Available | USD 1,020.00 |
| 169 | Sabatini, Rafael. | The Writings. |
1924-30 | Not Available | USD 960.00 |
| 201 | Yale College. Class Book. |
1864 | Not Available | USD 900.00 | |
| 167 | Contemporary manuscript account of the assassination of Czar Paul I. |
1801 | Not Available | USD 780.00 | |
| 187 | Thompson, Hunter. | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman. |
1971 | Not Available | USD 780.00 |
| 73 | Everard, John. | Some Gospel Treasures, or the Holiest of all Unveiling. |
1757 | Not Available | USD 720.00 |
| 140 | Meggendorfer, Lothar. | Always Jolly! 8 full-page tab-operated plates colored by hand (The Elephant a bit stiff). |
Circa 1890 | Not Available | USD 720.00 |
![<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://pjupgrade-qadev.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.")
