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
401	Bunyan (John)	The Pilgrim's Progress			GBP -	7.00
402	Conrad (Joseph)	Letters 1895 to 1924			GBP -	4.50
403	Keynes (Geoffrey)	Jane Austen: a Bibliography			GBP -	5.50
404	Montaigne (M. de)	Essays			GBP -	8.50
405	Tennyson (Alfred, Lord)	In Memoriam			GBP -	2.75
406	Allen (H.)	Israfel	New York	1926	GBP -	1.75
407	Currier (T. F.)	A Bibliography of J. G. Whittier		1937	GBP -	2.50
408	Joyce (J.)	Verbannte	Zurich	1919	GBP -	1.50
409	Bemrose (Geoffrey)	Nineteenth Century English Pottery and Porcelain			GBP -	3.50
410	Schreiber (Lady Charlotte)	Journals		1911	GBP -	7.00
411	Burton (Wm.)	A History and Description of English Porcelain			GBP -	1.50
412	Blacker (J. F.)	Nineteenth-century English Ceramic Art		1907	GBP -	4.50
413	Britten (F. J.)	Old Clocks and Watches			GBP -	3.00
414	Chaffers (Wm.)	Marks and Monograms on			GBP -	3.25
415		Chats on Old Furniture			GBP -	4.00
416	Dykes (W. R.)	A Handbook of Garden Irises			GBP -	1.00
417	Honey (W. B.)	Corean Pottery			GBP -	5.50
418	King (Wm.)	English Porcelain Figures of the eighteenth century			GBP -	5.50
419	Lewis (J. S.)	Old Glass and how to Collect it			GBP -	1.00
420	Rogers (H. M.)	The Making of a Connoisseur			GBP -	2.00
421	Rogers (J. C.)	English Furniture			GBP -	3.00
422	Solon (M. L.)	A Brief History of Old English Porcelain		1904	GBP -	3.50
423	Ayrton (M.) and A. Silcock	Wrought Iron and its Decorative Use		1929	GBP -	3.25
424	Buckley (Francis)	A History of Old English Glass		1925	GBP -	5.00
425	Dawe (George)	The Life of George Morland			GBP -	2.00
426	Edwards (Ralph) and Margaret Jourdain	Georgian Cabinet-Makers			GBP -	2.00
427	Finn (F.) and E. K. Robinson	Birds of our Country		1895	GBP -	1.50
428	Francis (G. R.)	Old English Drinking Glasses		1926	GBP -	5.00
429	Haslem (John)	The Old Derby China Factory		1876	GBP -	4.50
430	Honey (W. B.)	The Ceramic Art of China and other Countries of the Far East		1945	GBP -	4.00
431	Hurlbutt (Frank)	Bow Porcelain		1926	GBP -	4.00
432	King (William)	Chelsea Porcelain		1922	GBP -	8.50
433	Morris (F. O.)	A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain			GBP -	2.00
434	Nott (S. C.)	Chinese Jade throughout the Ages		1936	GBP -	9.00
435		Oriental Ceramic Society			GBP -	16.00
436	Read (Herbert)	Staffordshire Pottery Figures		1929	GBP -	3.00
437	Sparrow (W. Shaw)	A Book of Sporting Painters		1931	GBP -	2.50
438	Taylor (R. A.)	Leonardo the Florentine			GBP -	2.50
439		Victoria and Albert Museum			GBP -	4.00
440	Whitman (Alfred)	The Print-Collector's Handbook			GBP -	1.00
441	Hartshorne (Albert)	Old English Glass			GBP -	4.50
442	Hobson (R. L.)	Worcester Porcelain		1910	GBP -	15.00
443	HOBSON (R. L.)	A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David		1934	GBP -	45.00
444	Maps. Saxton (C.) and Wm. Kip	Maps of the County of Huntingdon			GBP -	3.00
445	Shimbi Shoin	Old Masterpieces reproduced by the Shimbi Shoin			GBP -	7.00
446	FERGUSON (J.)	Bibliotheca Chemica	Glasgow	1906	GBP -	17.00
447	Olschki (L. S.)	Le Livre en Italie	Florence	1914	GBP -	2.00
448	Wise (T. J.)	A Bibliography of the Bronte Family		1917	GBP -	6.00
449	Wise (T. J.)	A Browning Library		1929	GBP -	4.50
450	D'Indy (Vincent)	La Legende de St	Paris	1918	GBP -	2.50
451		Archaeological Survey of Egypt			GBP -	22.00
452	Whistler (Laurence)	Sir John Vanbrugh			GBP -	2.25
453	Read (H.)	Staffordshire Pottery Figures		1929	GBP -	3.00
454	Laking (Sir G. F.)	Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle		1907	GBP -	9.00
455	Hodgson (Mrs. W.)	Old English China		1913	GBP -	3.25
456	Binns (W. Moore)	The First Century of English Porcelain		1906	GBP -	4.00
457	Hayden (A.)	Spode and his Successors		[1925]	GBP -	3.00
458	Fisher (S. W.)	English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century			GBP -	2.50
459	Mackenna (F. Severne)	Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain			GBP -	5.50
460	Bemrose (W.)	A Descriptive Catalogue of Porcelain and other Art Objects in the Collection of			GBP -	6.50
461	Manners (Lady Victoria) and Dr. C. G. Williamson	Angelica Kauffmann			GBP -	4.50
462	Hayward (J. F.)	Viennese Porcelain of the Du Paquier Period		1952	GBP -	3.50
463	Rackham (B.) and H. Read	English Pottery	New York	1924	GBP -	7.50
464	With (Karl)	Java, Buddhistische and Brahmanische Architektur und Plastik auf Java	Hagen	1922	GBP -	1.50
465		Auction Sale Catalogues	Berlin	1928	GBP -	1.00
466		Auction Sale Catalogues			GBP -	3.00
467	Janneau (G.) and Jarry (M.)	Le Siege en France du moyen age a nos jours			GBP -	3.50
468	Smith (V. A.)	A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon	Oxford	1930	GBP -	7.50
469	Lomax (C. J.)	Quaint Old English Pottery		1909	GBP -	4.50
470	De Jonge (Jonkvrouwe Dr. C. H.)	Oud-Nederlandsche Majolica en Delftsch Aardewerk	Amsterdam	1947	GBP -	1.50
471	Daydi (M. Olivar)	La Porcelana en Europe desde sus origenes hasta principios del siglo XIX	Barcelona	1952-53	GBP -	5.00
472		Royal Academy of Arts		1936	GBP -	9.00
473	Kendrick (A. F.) and C. E. C. Tattersall	Hand-Woven Carpets Oriental and European		1922	GBP -	22.00
474	Preston (Sir Lionel)	Sea and River Painters of the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century	Oxford	1937	GBP -	2.00
475	Loudon (Mrs.)	British Wild Flowers			GBP -	8.00
476	Gatty (Mrs. Alfred)	The Book of Sun-Dials enlarged by H. K. E. Eden and E. Lloyd			GBP -	3.00
477		Autograph Prices Current			GBP -	12.00
478	Bouchot (H.)	The Book			GBP -	2.00
479	Chaffers (W.)	Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain			GBP -	5.50
480	B. Vincent	Haydn's Dictionary of Dates			GBP -	3.00
481	Hudson (W. H.)	Dead Man's Plack			GBP -	1.00
482	Marie Antoinette	Lettres			GBP -	6.00
483	Walton (Isaac)	The Life of Dr. Sanderson		1678	GBP -	1.00
484	Delarue (T.)	Autographs			GBP -	22.00
485	Baker (O.)	Black Jacks and Leather Bottells		1921	GBP -	2.75
486	Cook (Captain J.)	A Voyage towards the South Pole [second voyage]			GBP -	2.50
487	Michel (E.)	Rembrandt	Paris	1893	GBP -	Not Sold
488	Parker (K. T.)	The Drawings of Antoine Watteau		1931	GBP -	6.50
489	Quaritch (B.)	Palaeography		1894	GBP -	4.50
490	Rinder (F.)	D. Y. Cameron's Etchings			GBP -	1.50
491	Scott (H. T.) and S. Davey	A Guide to the Collector of Historical Documents		1891	GBP -	2.50
492		Album of engravings			GBP -	2.00
493	Ammirato (S.)	Dell' Istorie Florentine	Florence	1600	GBP -	Not Sold
494	Warner (Sir G. F.)	Facsimiles of Autographs in the British Museum		1899	GBP -	6.50
495		Arabian Nights	Benares	1885-88	GBP -	1.00
496	Balzac (H. de)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1872-65	GBP -	3.00
497	Chaucer (G.)	Poetical Works			GBP -	1.00
498	Cicero (M. T.)	Opera			GBP -	1.50
499	Dillon (E.)	Porcelain		[1904]	GBP -	1.00
500		English Poets		1790	GBP -	6.50

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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.

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