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
101	Fisher (S. W.)	English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century			GBP -	1.75
102	Bolingbroke (H. St. John)	Viscount			GBP -	2.50
103	Kingsley (C.)	The Water Babies		1863	GBP -	2.00
104	Doyle (Sir A. C.)	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes			GBP -	3.50
105	Doyle (Sir A. C.)	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes		1892	GBP -	5.50
106	Blacker (W.)	Art of Flymaking		1855	GBP -	3.50
107		Manuscript Journal of a Tour to Belgium			GBP -	3.00
108	Aspin (J.)	Urania's Mirror		1910	GBP -	3.00
109	Defoe (D.)	Novels and Miscellaneous Works	Oxford	1840-41	GBP -	4.50
110	Bosman (W.)	A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea		1721	GBP -	3.00
111	Accum (F.)	Description of the Process of manufacturing Coal Gas		1819	GBP -	4.50
112	Buckton (G. B.)	Ray Society		1876-83	GBP -	4.50
113	Stephenson (John)	Medical Botany			GBP -	1.00
114		[Book of Common Prayer in Welsh]			GBP -	2.00
115	Johnson (S.)	Works	Oxford	1825	GBP -	Not Sold
116	[Surtees (R. S.)]	Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour		1853	GBP -	1.00
117	[Combe (W.)]	The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque			GBP -	0.50
118	Honey (W. B.)	The Ceramic Art of China			GBP -	2.00
119	Darwin (C.)	The Descent of Man		1871	GBP -	3.50
120	Shakespeare (W.)	Works			GBP -	1.00
121		Strand Magazine			GBP -	0.50
122	Callot (J.)	Les Miseres et Les Mae-Heurs de la Guerre	Paris	1633	GBP -	1.50
123	Hind (A. M.)	A History of Engraving and Etching		1923	GBP -	3.00
124	Gilbert (Sir W. S.)	The "Bab" Ballads			GBP -	1.25
125	Siltzer (Capt. F.)	The Story of British Sporting Prints		1950	GBP -	3.50
126	Couts (J.)	A Practical Guide for the Tailor's Cutting-Room			GBP -	5.50
127	Dickens (C.)	Pickwick Papers			GBP -	1.00
128	Walton (I.) and C. Cotton	The Complete Angler		1823	GBP -	11.00
129	Bahr (A. W.)	Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China		1911	GBP -	4.50
130	Kyd (Thomas)	Oxford English Classics			GBP -	3.50
131	Carver (J.)	Travels through the Interior Parts of North America		1778	GBP -	14.00
132	Morley (Claude)	Ichneumonologia Britannica		1903-14	GBP -	9.00
133	Taylor (S.)	Angling in all its Branches		1800	GBP -	0.50
134		Strand Magazine			GBP -	2.50
135	Jardine (Sir W.)	The Naturalist's Library	Edinburgh	1833-43	GBP -	9.00
136		Entomologist's Monthly Magazine			GBP -	11.00
137	[Lawrence (J)]	W. H. Scott British Field Sports			GBP -	2.00
138	Egan (P.)	Life in London		1822	GBP -	1.75
139	Blacker (W.)	Art of Flymaking		1855	GBP -	3.50
140	Hale (J. H.)	How to tie Salmon Flies			GBP -	1.75
141	Pepys (Samuel)	Diary and Correspondence		1890	GBP -	3.50
142	Newbolt (Sir Henry)	Aladore			GBP -	1.75
143	Arber (A.)	Herbals,			GBP -	7.50
144	Dickens (Charles), edited by Andrew Lang	The Works		1897-99	GBP -	1.00
145	Browning (Elizabeth Barrett)	Poetical Works		1883-86	GBP -	1.50
146	Shakespeare (William)	The Complete Works		1953	GBP -	4.00
147	Du Maurier (George)	Peter Ibbetson		1892	GBP -	2.00
148	Lawrence (D. H.)	The Letters			GBP -	3.50
149	James (Henry)	A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales			GBP -	1.25
150	Thackeray (W. M.)	The Newcomes		1854-55	GBP -	1.00
151	Ros (Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick)	Kaiser Bill!			GBP -	4.00
152		Train (The): A First-Class Magazine		1856-58	GBP -	1.50
153		College Rhymes		1860-72	GBP -	2.50
154	Verlaine (Paul)	Bonheur			GBP -	5.00
155	Verlaine (Paul)	Sagesse			GBP -	4.00
156	Bennett (E. Arnold)	A Man from the North		1898	GBP -	0.50
157	Morris (W.)	Kelmscott Press		1892	GBP -	4.00
158	Butler (S.)	The Way of All Flesh		1903	GBP -	1.00
159	Chesterton (G. K.)	The Innocence of Father Brown		1911	GBP -	4.00
160	Bullen (F. T.)	The Cruise of the "Cachalot,"		1898	GBP -	2.50
161	BUNYAN (JOHN)	THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS		1679	GBP -	50.00
162	Browning (E. B.)	Poems		1850	GBP -	1.00
163	Stevenson (R. L.)	An Inland Voyage		1878	GBP -	Not Sold
164	Hakluyt (R.)	The Principal Navigations		1903-05	GBP -	17.00
165	[Butler (S.)]	Erewhon		1872	GBP -	2.25
166	Hardy (T.)	The Trumpet-Major			GBP -	2.25
167	[Richardson (S.)]	Clarissa		1748	GBP -	4.50
168	Conrad (J.)	Lord Jim		1900	GBP -	2.00
169	Kingsley (C.)	Two Years Ago			GBP -	0.50
170	Lowell (Amy)	John Keats			GBP -	6.50
171	Pinto (V. de S.)	Sir Charles Sedley			GBP -	9.50
172	Conrad (J.)	Some Reminiscences			GBP -	3.00
173		Opera Libretti		1751-1893	GBP -	6.50
174	H. F. Witherby, F. C. R. Jourdain and N. F. Ticehurst	British Birds		1917-53	GBP -	12.00
175	W. S. Millard, E. Comber and L. C. H. Young	Bombay Natural History Society	Bombay	1906-25	GBP -	12.00
176	Winans (W.)	Deer Breeding for Fine Heads			GBP -	2.00
177	Osbaldeston (Squire George)	Autobiography		1926	GBP -	1.50
178		Random Sketches of Buenos Aires	Edinburgh	1868	GBP -	5.00
179	Browning (R.)	Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day		1850	GBP -	8.50
180	Galsworthy (J.)	The Forsyte Saga		1922	GBP -	2.50
181	Alscheich (Moses)	Chavazelet Hasharon [A Commentary on Daniel with the text of Daniel]		1563	GBP -	30.00
182	Ben Asher (Jacob)	Peirush Hatorah	Venice	1577	GBP -	5.50
183	Ben Asher (Bechai)	Chovat Halevavot	Mantua	1559	GBP -	2.75
184	Ben Mordechai Horovitz (Jehudah)	Megillat Sedarim	Prague	1793	GBP -	5.50
185	Sefer Hagilgulim	Chaim Vital			GBP -	4.00
186		Chok Leisrael	Livorno	1860	GBP -	1.00
187	Del Medigo (Elijah)	Bechinat Hadat Vetaalumot Chochma	Basle	1629	GBP -	34.00
188	Gedaliah Ibn Yachia	Shalshelet Hakabalah			GBP -	2.50
189	Gikatilia (Joseph)	Shaarei Orah [A famous book on the Kabbalah]			GBP -	7.00
190	Gollancz	Sepher Maphteah Shelomo	Oxford University Press	1914	GBP -	2.00
191		Hebrew and Jewish Books			GBP -	3.00
192	Jastrow	A Dictionary of the Targumim	London	1903	GBP -	8.50
193	Jehuda ben Barsilai	Sepher Jezira	Berlin	1885	GBP -	6.50
194	Judah Hachasid	Sefer Chasidim	Basle	1580	GBP -	2.50
195	Karo (Joseph)	Maggid Meisharim			GBP -	16.00
196	Margolin	Mandelkern Veteris Testamenti Concordantiae	Berlin	1925	GBP -	6.00
197	Mikrooth	Gedoloth,	Wilna	1934	GBP -	2.00
198	Moses Chaim Luzzatto	Messilat Yesharim	Amsterdam	1740	GBP -	2.50
199	MOSES GALLANTE	Kohelet Jacob	Abraham Ashkenazi	1577-78	GBP -	32.00
200		Pentateuch and Festival Prayers	London	1893-1895	GBP -	Not Sold

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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