Sothebys: Printed Books with a few Manuscripts Comprising The Property of Richard Mabbocks, Esq. The Property of Mrs. Frank Skebington The Property of Mrs. Frank Skebington The Property of the late M. Mestlep Manning, Esq. And The Property of P. M. Sibba, Esq. Also An extensive general collection, including a long run from the Nonesuch Press The Property of the late the Rt. Honble. Baron Inberchapel, P.C., D.C.M.G. And An Interesting Collection Of Rare Hebrew Books, Mostly On The Kabalah The Property of a Gentleman, CHROME,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 01, 1954 - November 01, 1954

Page Size: 584 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Annals (The) of Electricity		1839-41	GBP -	4.50
2	Bernard (John)	Retrospections of the Stage			GBP -	7.50
3	Bewick (Thomas)	A History of British Birds			GBP -	5.50
4		Book of Common Prayer (The)		1713	GBP -	2.75
5	[Boswell (Thomas Alexander)]	Recollections of a Pedestrian			GBP -	5.50
6	Bree (C. R.)	A History of the Birds of Europe		1863-64	GBP -	3.25
7	Charnier (Capt. F.)	The Unfortunate Man			GBP -	5.50
8		Children's Books			GBP -	2.75
9	[Colquhoun (P.)]	A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis			GBP -	5.00
10	[Grespigny (Mrs.)]	The Pavilion			GBP -	11.00
11	[Dodgson (C. L.)]	"Lewis Carroll" A Tangled Tale			GBP -	4.50
12		Fashion Plates		c. 1798-1840	GBP -	26.00
13	Galerie du Musee Napoleon	publiee par A.-M. Filhol et redigee par J. Lavallee	Paris	1809-13	GBP -	10.00
14	Goldsmith (Oliver)	An History of the Earth			GBP -	5.00
15		Gott-Geheiligtes Sing-und Bet-Opfer . . . oder nen-eingerichtetes Hohenlohisches Gesang-und Gebet-Buch			GBP -	5.50
16	Greville (C. C. F.)	The Greville Memoirs			GBP -	3.00
17	Haggard (Sir H. Rider)	She, coloured frontispieces			GBP -	5.50
18	Hitt (Thomas)	A Treatise of Fruit-Trees		1755	GBP -	5.00
19	Hunt (J. H. Leigh)	A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla		1848	GBP -	2.00
20	Kinglake (A. W.)	The Invasion of the Crimea			GBP -	3.75
21		Lady's Magazine (The)		1799, 1805, 1811, 1818	GBP -	2.00
22	Laing (S.)	A Tour in Sweden in 1838			GBP -	7.00
23	Lardner (Rev. D.)	Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine			GBP -	9.00
24	Lawrence (George Alfred)	Barren Honour			GBP -	2.75
25	Lowe (E. J.)	Ferns			GBP -	6.00
26	Macaulay (T. B. Lord)	The History of England			GBP -	5.00
27		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	6.50
28	Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley)	Letters			GBP -	6.00
29	Moore (Dr. John)	Zeluco			GBP -	4.50
30	Mudie (R.)	The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands			GBP -	3.00
31	Sir William Jardine	Naturalist's Library (The)	Edinburgh	1843	GBP -	27.00
32	Smith (Charlotte)	Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle			GBP -	6.00
33	Speechly (W.)	A Treatise on the Culture of the Pine Apple and the Management of the Hot-House			GBP -	5.50
34	Spenser (Edmund)	The Poetical Works	Edinburgh		GBP -	6.00
35	Stoberl (F.)	The World in Miniature: Turkey		1870	GBP -	5.00
36	Sweet (Robert)	Geraniaceae		1820-22	GBP -	7.00
37	[Reynolds (Sir Joshua)]	Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President			GBP -	6.00
38	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	Works		1862-88	GBP -	3.00
39	Trollope (Mrs. Frances)	The Widow Barnaby			GBP -	8.50
40	Trueba (T. de)	The Romance of History: Spain			GBP -	6.50
41	[Victor (Benjamin)]	The Widow of the Wood			GBP -	11.00
42	Wright (Thomas)	The Use of the Globes: or, the General Doctrine of the Sphere			GBP -	7.50
43	Barnes or Berners (Dame Juliana)	The Boke of Saint Albans		1881	GBP -	2.00
44	Beattie (W.)	Switzerland		1836	GBP -	3.00
45		Bewick Gleanings	Newcastle	1886	GBP -	3.00
46	Cook (Capt. J.)	A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean			GBP -	4.00
47	Davy (Sir Humphry)	Elements of Agricultural Chemistry			GBP -	11.50
48	Delavai (Edward Hussey)	An Experimental Inquiry into the Cause of the Changes of Colours in Opake and Coloured Bodies		1777	GBP -	6.50
49	Grose (Francis)	The Antiquities of England and Wales			GBP -	3.50
50	Gibbon (Edward)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1781-88	GBP -	4.50
51		Horticultural Society		1812-20	GBP -	7.50
52	Hunter (John)	Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island		1793	GBP -	4.00
53	Limborch (Philip a)	The History of the Inquisition translated into English by Samuel Chandler		1731	GBP -	2.75
54	McDonald (Alexander)	A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening		1807	GBP -	16.00
55	Morris (Rev. F. O.)	A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland			GBP -	1.75
56	Musgrave (Sir R.)	Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland			GBP -	3.50
57	Robertson (Dr. W.)	The History of America		1777	GBP -	1.25
58	Rose (T.)	Westmorland		1832-35	GBP -	1.75
59	Swinburne (Henry)	Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776			GBP -	2.00
60	Waller (Edmund)	The Works in Verse and Prose			GBP -	1.00
61	Wright (J.)	The Fruit Grower's Guide			GBP -	4.75
62	Thomas Wriothesley	Album containing documents			GBP -	5.50
63	Blunt (H.)	Six Views in Shrewsbury			GBP -	13.00
64	Gillray	Caricatures		1795-1809	GBP -	11.00
65	Faden (William)	Atlas		1783-1802	GBP -	12.00
66	Houghton (Rev. W.)	British Fresh-water Fishes		[c. 1879]	GBP -	1.00
67	Hyde (Edward, Earl of Clarendon)	The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England			GBP -	0.50
68	Kershaw (Capt. J.) and William Daniell	Views in the Burman Empire		1829	GBP -	32.00
69		Miscellaneous Prints			GBP -	10.50
70	Ogilby (J.)	Atlas Japannensis: being Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East-Indies Company of the United Provinces		1670	GBP -	5.00
71		Register (The) of the Most Noble Order of the Garter . . . usually called The Black Book			GBP -	4.00
72	Steuart (J.)	Designs for Onslow House		1779-89	GBP -	16.00
73		Vues de Copenhagne et ses environs	Copenhagen	[c. 1840]	GBP -	5.00
74	Webster (Noah)	An American Dictionary of the English Language	Cambridge	1865	GBP -	2.00
75	Geoffrey of Monmouth	Britanniae utriusque regum & principum Origo & jesta insignia	Paris	1508	GBP -	17.00
76	Bradford (John)	Godly Meditations uppon the Lords prayer		1597	GBP -	26.00
77	Erasmus	Proverbes or Adagies gathered out of the chiliades of Erasmus by Richard Taverner		1550	GBP -	85.00
78	Dorat	Dorat. Fables Nouvelles		1773	GBP -	36.00
79	Passeratius (J.)	De Literarum inter se Cognatione ac Permutatione Liber	Paris	1606	GBP -	4.50
80	Oppian	De Venatione Lib IIII. De Piscatu Lib. V.,			GBP -	4.00
81	Kirchner (H.)	Legatus		1604	GBP -	2.00
82	[Vernon (Admiral Edward)]	Some Seasonable Advice from an Honest Sailor		1746	GBP -	7.00
83	S[wift] (Dean J[onathan])	The Works		1735-38	GBP -	18.00
84	Sowerby (James)	English Botany		1863-86	GBP -	5.00
85	Fellowes (W. D.)	A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe		1818	GBP -	2.25
86	Barham (R. H.)	Ingoldsby Legends		1840-42	GBP -	Not Sold
87	Molina (Don J. Ignatius)	The Geographical		1809	GBP -	12.00
88	Burney (C.)	The Present State of Music in Germany [and] the Netherlands			GBP -	4.50
89	Byron (G. G. Noel)	Lord Don Juan		1819-24	GBP -	2.50
90	Basile (G. B.)	It Pentamerone			GBP -	2.00
91	Dickens (C.)	The Pickwick Papers		1837	GBP -	3.00
92	Scott (Sir W.)	The Fortunes of Nigel	Edinburgh	1821-22	GBP -	1.00
93	Lamb (C.)	Elia		1823	GBP -	6.50
94	Lamb (C.)	The Last Essays of Elia		1833	GBP -	5.00
95	Dickens (C.)	The Cricket on the Hearth			GBP -	3.50
96	Walton (I.) and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler		1925	GBP -	0.50
97	Laurent (E.)	Le Nicotinisme			GBP -	3.00
98	Dickens (Charles)	Master Humphrey's Clock			GBP -	3.50
99	Rosebery (Lord)	Napoleon			GBP -	1.75
100	Laver (J.)	"Vulgar Society"			GBP -	2.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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