New England Book Auctions: Fine Books & Ephemera
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books & Ephemera | Total Sales (USD) | 29,430.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #64 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 212 | ||
| Sold Lots | 205.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 96.70% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 7 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181 | Cormac McCarthy | The Orchard Keeper; Outer Dark |
1965; 1968 | Not Available | USD 1,920.00 |
| 31 | Herman Mann | The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady |
1797 | Not Available | USD 1,140.00 |
| 180 | Thomas Pynchon | 3 Books, including: The Crying of Lot 49 |
1965; 1973 | Not Available | USD 960.00 |
| 165 | Clement Moore | Historic Tales of Olden Time |
1833 | Not Available | USD 900.00 |
| 188 | Thomas Jefferson | Notes on Virginia |
1794 | Not Available | USD 900.00 |
| 99 | William Blake | 4 Books, including: The Song of Los |
1975; 1929; 1927 | Not Available | USD 600.00 |
| 113 | Manuscript Account Book for a paper mill |
1832-44 | Not Available | USD 540.00 | |
| 166 | John Hersey | Hiroshima |
1946 | Not Available | USD 540.00 |
| 178 | Alice Walker | 6 Books, including: Once |
1968; 1973; 1979; 1992; 1981 | Not Available | USD 450.00 |
| 182 | Countee Cullen | The Black Christ and Other Poems |
1929 | Not Available | USD 450.00 |
| 72 | Memoirs of the Academy of Arts and Sciences: |
1785; 1793 | Not Available | USD 390.00 | |
| 134 | La Roy Sunderland | Pathetism; with Practical Instructions. Demonstrating the Falsity of the prevalent assumptions in regard to what has been called "Mesmerism" and "Neurology" and illustrating those laws which induce Somnambulism, Second Sight, Sleep, Dreaming, Trance, and |
1843 | Not Available | USD 390.00 |
| 151 | Report of The Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1855 |
1856 | Not Available | USD 360.00 | |
| 48 | Francis Peyre Porcher | Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests |
1869 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 79 | Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica |
1985 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 143 | Ida M. Tarbell | The History of The Standard Oil Company |
1904 | Not Available | USD 330.00 |
| 34 | Pierre Pomet | A Compleat History of Druggs |
1725 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 160 | Frederic Shoberl | The World in Miniature...Africa |
1820s | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 183 | Wallace Berman | Semina No. 5 |
1959 | Not Available | USD 300.00 |
| 209 | A Handbook to the Imported Species |
1903 | Not Available | USD 300.00 | |
| 81 | Plates Illustrating the Geology and Scenery of Massachusetts |
1833 | Not Available | USD 270.00 | |
| 106 | William Camden | Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland |
1806 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 107 | Reilly; Moll; Hondius | 3 Books, including: Die Gegend um Wien |
ND | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
| 128 | The Book of Baseball. The National Game From The Earliest Days to The Present Season |
1911 | Not Available | USD 270.00 | |
| 157 | B. A. Gould, Jr | B. A. Gould, Jr Herbarium |
1839 | Not Available | USD 270.00 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000 -
