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
201		Raziel Hamalach [A famous Kabbalistic book]	Amsterdam	1701	GBP -	3.50
202	Rovigo (Abraham)	Mafteach Hazohar	Amsterdam	1710	GBP -	1.50
203	[Samuel Aboab]	Sefer Hazichronot [A mystical treatise written anonymously by Aboab]			GBP -	4.50
204		Tikunai Hazohar [Additions to the Zohar]	Amsterdam	1719	GBP -	1.00
205		Toledot Yizchak Deroosh-Veata Techese Jerusalem and Safed	Jerusalem and Safed	1880	GBP -	8.00
206	Zakuta (Moses)	Iggarot [Letters of the famous Kabbalist Zakuto]	Livorno	1780	GBP -	8.00
207	Aaron Ben Samuel	Bet Aaron		1690	GBP -	2.50
208	Bechayei Ben Asher	Peirush al Hatozah	Venice	1566	GBP -	3.50
209	Chaim Vital	Pri Etzi Chaim		1785	GBP -	22.00
210	Chaim Vital	Etz Chaim		1785	GBP -	8.00
211	Isaiah Ben Abraham Horovitz	Shnei Luchot Habrit			GBP -	24.00
212	Samuel Ben Chaim Vital	Mekor Chaim		1771	GBP -	5.50
213	attributed to Simon Ben Yochai	ZOHAR	Cremona	1559	GBP -	42.00
214	Anonymous	Divrei Kabballah			GBP -	11.00
215	Chaim Vital	Etz Chaim [A Kabbalistic Treatise],			GBP -	11.00
216	Chaim Vital	Ozrot Chaim		1681	GBP -	10.00
217		Drushei Hakaballah			GBP -	11.00
218	Moses Zakuto	Drush [Sermons on the Kabballah]			GBP -	10.00
219	[Chorier (N.)] Meursius (J.)	Graecia Feriata	Leyden	1619-22	GBP -	3.50
220	Longomontanus (C. S.)	Inventio Quadraturae Circuli	Leyden	1591	GBP -	5.00
221	Josephus (Flavius)	Des vermaerden Joetschen Hystorie			GBP -	6.00
222	Nottis (Stephanus ex)	Opus remissionis a poena et culpa	Milan	1st December 1500	GBP -	11.00
223	Ovid	L'Art d'aimer			GBP -	1.00
224	LEWIN (W.)	The Birds of Great Britain		1795-1801	GBP -	23.00
225	Hall (Capt. B.)	Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea			GBP -	1.00
226	Neale (Adam)	Travels through some parts of Germany		1818	GBP -	5.50
227	[Barker (M. H.)]	Greenwich Hospital		1826	GBP -	5.00
228	Robley (Maj.-Gen. H. G.)	Moko; or Maori Tattooing		1896	GBP -	5.00
229		Pictorial Reminiscences of The Thames			GBP -	6.50
230	Buff on (G. L. L., Comte de)	Histoire Naturelle	Paris	1771-49-89	GBP -	5.50
231	Butler (A. G.)	Foreign Finches in Captivity 1899			GBP -	4.25
232	Ricci (C.)	Antonio Allegri da Corregio		1896	GBP -	1.25
233	Chardin (Chevalier J.)	Voyages ... en Perse	Amsterdam	1711	GBP -	2.75
234	Redford (G.)	Art Sales		1888	GBP -	1.00
235	Krul (J. H.)	Pampiere Wereld ... in Vier Deelen	Amsterdam	1681	GBP -	1.50
236	Brown (Capt. T.)	Illustrations of the Recent Conchology		1820	GBP -	5.50
237	Tuer (A. W.)	Bartolozzi and his Works			GBP -	1.00
238	Osmaston (F. P. B.)	The Art and Genius of Tintoret		1915	GBP -	2.00
239	Gallatin (A. E.) and L. M. Oliver	A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm			GBP -	3.50
240	Macfall (H.)	The French Pastellists of the Eighteenth Century			GBP -	1.75
241	J. M. W. Turner, Sir T. A. Cook	The Water-Colour Drawings of J. M. W. Turner			GBP -	1.50
242	Spenser (E.)	The Faerie Queene		1897-9	GBP -	0.75
243	Beerbohm (Sir Max)	Rossetti and his Circle		1922	GBP -	3.00
244	Goldscheider (L.) and W. Uhde	Vincent Van Gogh			GBP -	3.75
245		Studio (The) 1895-1908			GBP -	Not Sold
246	Landon (C. P.)	Vie et Oeuvres des Peintres Les Plus Celebres			GBP -	Not Sold
247	Maund (B.)	The Botanic Garden		1825-36	GBP -	12.50
248	Havard (H.)	Dictionnaire de L'Ameublement	Paris	[c. 1890]	GBP -	3.50
249	Kerner von Marilaun (A.)	The Natural History of Plants [translated] by F. W. Oliver		1895	GBP -	Not Sold
250	Cheeseman (T. F.) and Hemsley (W. B.)	Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora		1860	GBP -	4.00
251	Grimwade (R.)	An Anthography of the Eucalypts	Australia	1920	GBP -	1.00
252	Hamilton (A.)	The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand	Wellington	1896-1901	GBP -	9.50
253	Hood (T.)	Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg			GBP -	2.50
254	Drinkwater (J.) and Albert Rutherston	Claud Lovat Fraser	Heinemann	923	GBP -	1.25
255	Whistler (Rex)	The Konigsmark Drawings		1952	GBP -	2.50
256	Valery (Paul)	La Soiree avec M	Paris	1919	GBP -	4.50
257	Cocteau (Jean)	Dessins	Paris	1923	GBP -	4.50
258	Joyce (James)	Ulysses	Paris	1922	GBP -	2.25
259	Gide (Andre)	Oedipe	Paris	1931	GBP -	3.50
260	Douglas (Norman)	Capri	Florence	1930	GBP -	7.00
261	Duhamel (Georges)	La Pierre d'Horeb			GBP -	4.00
262	Maurois (Andre)	Un Essai sur Dickens	Paris	1927	GBP -	2.00
263	Wilfrid Wilson Gibson	New Numbers [Poems by] Wilfrid Wilson Gibson		1914	GBP -	1.50
264	Sitwell (Sir Osbert)	Three-quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arlen			GBP -	2.50
265	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines		1612	GBP -	4.50
266	Livius (Titus)	The Romane Historie		1600	GBP -	4.00
267	Parkinson (John)	Theatrum Botanicum		1640	GBP -	13.00
268	[Gessner (C.) Military Evolutions]	30 coloured aquatints by Ziegler and Bluck		1799-1803	GBP -	125.00
269	Jones (Owen)	The Grammar of Ornament			GBP -	8.00
270	Gillray (James)	Works			GBP -	7.00
271	Dubourg (M.)	Views ... in Rome and Vicinity			GBP -	14.00
272	Cruikshank (G.)	Phrenological Illustrations			GBP -	3.50
273	Cuitt (G.)	Wanderings and Pencillings amongst Ruins of the Olden Time			GBP -	0.50
274		Sun (The)		7th September, 1797 -2nd February, 1801	GBP -	5.00
275	Niel (P. J. G.)	Portraits des personnages francais les plus illustres du XVIe siecle	Paris	1848-56	GBP -	8.00
276	Foster (J. J.)	The Stuarts		1902	GBP -	1.25
277	Dodgson (C.)	Woodcuts of the XVth Century in the British Museum		1934-35	GBP -	12.00
278	Hogarth (W.)	Works			GBP -	4.50
279	Byron (Lord)	The Prisoner of Chillon			GBP -	2.00
280	Hewitson (W. C.)	Coloured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds		1846	GBP -	0.50
281	Sowerby (J.)	English Botany		1863-72	GBP -	5.50
282	GIBBON (E.)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire			GBP -	16.00
283	Johnson (J.)	A Journey from India to England			GBP -	7.50
284	Maximilian (Prince)	Travels in Brazil		1820	GBP -	12.00
285	PEPYS (S.)	MEMOIRS . . . comprising his Diary		1825	GBP -	19.00
286	Pugin (A. W.)	Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume		1844	GBP -	5.50
287	Pugin (A. W.)	Floriated Ornament			GBP -	5.50
288	Tymms (W. R.) and M. D. Wyatt	The Art of Illuminating		1860	GBP -	2.50
289	Shaw (H.)	Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices			GBP -	2.50
290	White (G.)	The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne		1789	GBP -	12.00
291	Johnson (S.)	A Dictionary of the English Language		1755	GBP -	26.00
292	Alciatus (A.)	Omnia Emblemata			GBP -	3.50
293		Arabian Nights			GBP -	8.00
294	Browne (E. G.)	A Literary History of Persia			GBP -	4.50
295	Burnett (R.)	The Life of Paul Gauguin			GBP -	4.50
296	[Butler Samuel)]	Hudibras		1744	GBP -	1.75
297	Charles I (King of England)	Eikon Basilike		1648	GBP -	1.00
298	Chiang (May-ling Soong [Madame Chiang Kai-shek])	War Messages and Other Selections			GBP -	8.00
299	Diaz del Castillo (Bernal)	The True History of the Conquest of New Spain		1908-16	GBP -	9.00
300	Doughty (Charles M.)	Travels in Arabia Deserta		1921	GBP -	5.00

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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