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
301	Ferrero (G.)	The Greatness and Decline of Rome		1909	GBP -	1.00
302	Fitzgerald (C. P.)	China			GBP -	8.00
303	Frazer (Sir J. G.)	The Golden Bough			GBP -	3.50
304	Gide (Andre)	The Journals			GBP -	3.50
305		The Song of Songs			GBP -	12.00
306	Gregorovius (F.)	History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages		1909-12	GBP -	11.00
307	Hardy (Thomas)	Works		1919-25	GBP -	8.00
308	Hickey (William)	Memoirs			GBP -	2.00
309	Hodgkin (T.)	Italy and her Invaders			GBP -	9.50
310	Hudson (W. H.)	A Hind in Richmond Park			GBP -	3.00
311	Huxley (Aldous)	Limbo			GBP -	6.50
312	Huxley (Aldous)	Brief Candles			GBP -	6.50
313	Lang (A.)	A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation			GBP -	5.00
314	Lawrence (D. H.)	Sons and Lovers			GBP -	9.00
315	Mencken (H. L.)	The American Language	New York		GBP -	3.75
316		Miscellaneous Books			GBP -	2.75
317	Moore (George)	A Story-Teller's Holiday			GBP -	5.50
318	Morris (William)	The Collected Works		1910-15	GBP -	14.00
319	Nodier (Charles)	Promenade de Dieppe aux Montagnes d' Ecosse			GBP -	1.25
320	Omar Khayyam	The Ruba'iyat			GBP -	5.50
321	Pater (Walter Works, 9 vol., cloth, 1906-10-Stevenson (R. L.)	Works			GBP -	9.00
322	Pottle (F. A. and M. S.)	The Private Papers of James Boswell from Ma'ahide Castle			GBP -	3.75
323	Roosevelt (President F., D.) and Pius XII (Pope)	Wartime Correspondence			GBP -	3.50
324	Shaw (G. Bernard)	Man and Superman			GBP -	4.50
325	Synge (J. M.)	The Works	Dublin	1910	GBP -	3.50
326	Thompson (Francis)	The Works	Oxford		GBP -	Unknown
327	Verlaine (Paul)	Oeuvres completes			GBP -	5.50
328	Virgilius Maro (P.)	Opera Omnia			GBP -	4.00
329	Voltaire (F.-M. A. de)	Romans et contes			GBP -	3.50
330	Wilde (Oscar)	Works		[1908]	GBP -	18.00
331	Audubon (J. J.)	The Birds of America	New York	1946	GBP -	4.00
332	Beardsley (A.)	A Portfolio of Drawings illustrating "Salome" by Oscar Wilde			GBP -	2.00
333	Billmark (C. J.)	Skottiska Vuer tecknade efter Naturen under en resa i Skottland ar 1830			GBP -	1.50
334	Boccaccio (Gio.)	Il Decamerone	Venice	1555	GBP -	2.50
335	Butterfield (R.)	The American Past			GBP -	2.75
336	Casanova di Seingalt (G.)	The Memoirs	Casanova, Society	1922	GBP -	6.50
337	Chaffers (Wm.)	Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain		1908	GBP -	2.50
338	Decaisne (J.)	Le Jardin fruitier du Museum	Paris	1858-66	GBP -	27.00
339	Duhamel du Monceau (H.-L.)	Traite des arbres fruitiers	Paris	1768	GBP -	17.00
340	France (Anatole)	Oeuvres completes	Paris	1925-35	GBP -	6.50
341	Guillim (J.)	A Display of Heraldrie			GBP -	6.00
342	Hales (S.)	La Statique des vegetaux et l'analyse de l'air			GBP -	4.00
343	Janna (Dominique)	Histoire generale des roinaumes de Chypre	Leiden	1785	GBP -	7.00
344	Joyce (James)	Ulysses	Paris	1922	GBP -	10.00
345	Kerr (Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Ancram) and William	Correspondence	Edinburgh	1875	GBP -	1.00
346	Lawrence (T. E.)	Seven Pillars of Wisdom			GBP -	6.50
347	Lorant (Stefan)	The New World	New York	1946	GBP -	2.50
348	Machiavelli (N.)	Tutte le opere			GBP -	3.00
349	Malloch (P. D.)	Life-history and Habits of the Salmon			GBP -	0.50
350	Malory (Sir Thomas)	The Birth		1909	GBP -	6.00
351	Solleysel (J. de)	Le parfait marechal	Paris	1771	GBP -	2.00
352	C. T. Onions	Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (The)	Oxford	1944	GBP -	8.50
353	Sitwell (Sacheverell)	Conversation Pieces			GBP -	4.50
354	Villefosse (Heron de)	A Tribute to Precious Stones			GBP -	5.50
355	Whittemore (T.)	The Mosaics of Haghia Sophia at Istanbul			GBP -	5.00
356	Audebert (J. B.)	Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis	Paris	[1800]	GBP -	18.00
357	CHAUCER (GEOFFREY)	THE WORKES OF GEFFRAY CHAUCER NEWLYE PRINTED		1542	GBP -	290.00
358	Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of)	The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars'in England			GBP -	5.00
359	Fenelon (F. Salignac de la Motte)	Les Avantures de Telemaque			GBP -	4.50
360	Fleming (H. F. von)	Der Vollkommene Teutsche Jager [and] Der Wohlunterrichtete Teutsche Fischer	Leipzig	1719-24	GBP -	3.00
361	Froissart (Sir John)	Histoire et chronique memorable	Paris	1574	GBP -	4.50
362	Juvenalis (D. J.) and Flaccus (A. P.)	[Satyres]			GBP -	5.50
363	La Perouse (J.-F.-G. de)	Voyage autour du monde			GBP -	34.00
364	Merian (Marie-Sybille)	Histoire generale des insectes de Surinam et de toute l'Europe	Paris	1771-73	GBP -	42.00
365	Le Perouse (J.-F.-G. de)	Voyage autour du monde	Nuremberg	1768-82	GBP -	16.00
366	Scot (Reginald)	The Discoverie of Witchcraft		1930	GBP -	4.50
367	Severini (Gino)	Fleurs et masques		1930	GBP -	5.50
368	Tasso (Torquato)	Opere			GBP -	2.00
369	Villani (Giovanni)	Croniche			GBP -	4.00
370	Congreve (William)	The Complete Works		1923	GBP -	14.00
371	Wycherley (William)	The Complete Works		1924	GBP -	9.50
372	Blake (William)	The Writings		1925	GBP -	10.50
373	Milton (John)	Poems in English		1926	GBP -	16.00
374	Rochester (John Wilmot, Earl of)	Collected Works		1926	GBP -	10.00
375	Otway (Thomas)	The Complete Works		1926	GBP -	5.50
376		Holy Bible (The)		1924-27	GBP -	21.00
377	Wilson (Mona)	The Life of William Blake		1927	GBP -	2.00
378	Blake (William)	Pencil Drawings		1927	GBP -	5.50
379	Vanbrugh (Sir John)	The Complete Works		1927	GBP -	8.00
380	Dante Alighiere	La Divina Commedia		1928	GBP -	13.00
381	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes		1929-30	GBP -	8.50
382	Cervantes (M. de)	Don Quixote de la Mancha		[1930]	GBP -	10.00
383	Farquhar (George)	The Complete Works		1930	GBP -	7.50
384	Homer	The Iliad ; Odyssey		1931	GBP -	12.00
385	Dryden (John)	The Dramatic Works		1931-32	GBP -	16.00
386	Shakespeare (William)	The Works		1929-33	GBP -	36.00
387	Blake (William)	The Note-Book		1935	GBP -	5.50
388	Herodotus of Halicarnassus	The History		1935	GBP -	10.00
389	Milton (John) and Henry Lawes	The Mask of Comus		1937	GBP -	6.50
390	DICKENS (CHARLES)	THE WORKS		1937-38	GBP -	82.00
391	White (Gilbert)	The Writings		1928	GBP -	10.00
392	Marvell (Andrew)	Miscellaneous Poems			GBP -	6.00
393	Donne (John)	Love Poems			GBP -	3.50
394	Donne (John)	Paradoxes and Problemes			GBP -	5.50
395	Melville (Herman)	Benito Cereno			GBP -	4.50
396	Moore (George)	Ulick and Soracha			GBP -	3.00
397	Ros (Mrs. A. M'K.)	Irene Iddesleigh			GBP -	4.00
398	Cowley (Abraham)	The Mistress			GBP -	4.50
399	Thomson (James)	The Seasons		1927	GBP -	1.75
400	Herbert (George)	The Temple			GBP -	7.50

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