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
501	Gardner (J. S.)	English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries		[1911]	GBP -	2.50
502	Gibbon (E.)	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire		1896-1900	GBP -	4.50
503	La Fontaine (J. de)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris		GBP -	1.00
504		Loeb Classical Library		1920-30	GBP -	31.00
505	Scott (Sir W.)	Waverley Novels	Edinburgh	1829-33	GBP -	1.00
506	Sismondi (J. C. L. S. de)	Histoire des Francais	Paris	1821-44	GBP -	2.50
507	Smith (W.)	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities			GBP -	3.50
508	Stevenson (R. L.)	Works			GBP -	1.00
509	Swedenborg (E.)	Diarii Spiritualis			GBP -	5.50
510	Swinburne (A. C.)	Complete Works		1925-27	GBP -	7.00
511	Tolstoy (Count Leo)	Works	Oxford	1929-37	GBP -	19.00
512		Archaeologia			GBP -	2.50
513		Army List			GBP -	2.25
514	Boccaccio (G.)	The Decameron		1893	GBP -	2.25
515	Bock (Elfried)	Die Zeichnungen in der Universitatsbibliotek Erlangen			GBP -	9.50
516	Borenius (T.)	Catalogue of [W. H. Woodward] Collection of Pottery			GBP -	7.00
517	Brillat-Savarin (J. A.)	The Physiology and Taste		1925	GBP -	3.00
518	Bryan (M.)	Dictionary of Painters and Engravers		1930-27	GBP -	19.00
519	Huth (Hans)	Abraham und David Roentgen			GBP -	6.50
520	Longhurst (M. H.)	English Ivories		1926	GBP -	2.25
521	Meder (J.)	Die Handzeichnung	Vienna	1919	GBP -	3.00
522	Metastasio (P.)	Opere Drammatiche			GBP -	2.25
523	Read (Herbert)	English Stained Glass		[1926]	GBP -	3.75
524	Smith (J. C.)	British Mezzotinto Portraits		1883	GBP -	Not Sold
525	Veitch (J. H.)	Hortus Veitchii		1906	GBP -	2.25
526		Albertina Collection	Vienna	1896	GBP -	9.50
527	Berenson (B.)	The Drawings of the Florentine Painters		1903	GBP -	13.00
528		Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of Early German Art			GBP -	3.00
529	Cluverius (P.)	Italia Antiqua	Leyden	1624	GBP -	4.00
530	Finiguerra (M.)	A Florentine Picture-Chronicle		1898	GBP -	3.00
531		State Trials		1742-66	GBP -	0.50
532	Triggs (H. I.)	The Art of Garden Design in Italy		1906	GBP -	1.00
533	Tylor (J. J.)	Wall Drawings and Monuments of El Kab		1895-1900	GBP -	3.00
534	Colin Simkin	Currier and Ives' America	New York	1952	GBP -	4.50
535	John Arlott	John Speed's England		1953	GBP -	5.00
536	Armstrong (W.)	Gainsborough			GBP -	1.00
537	Holmes (Sir C. J.)	Constable		1902	GBP -	3.50
538	Auscher (E. S.)	A History and Description of French Porcelain		1905	GBP -	2.50
539	Burton (William)	A History and Description of English Earthenware and Stoneware		1904	GBP -	1.50
540	Curtis (W.)	The Botanical Magazine		1793-97	GBP -	6.00
541	Farrer (R.)	The English Rock-Garden			GBP -	2.50
542	Litchfield (F.)	Illustrated History of Furniture			GBP -	7.00
543		Miscellaneous books (a bundle)			GBP -	2.00
544		Modes de Paris		1830-36	GBP -	13.00
545	Muther (R.)	The History of Modern Painting			GBP -	5.75
546	Payne-Gallwey (Sir R.)	Letters to Young Shooters		1890-96	GBP -	2.75
547	Walton (I.) and C. Cotton	The Compleat Angler		1897	GBP -	2.25
548	Wilkinson (J. V. S.)	The Lights of Canopus Anvar I Suhaiti			GBP -	6.00
549	Asplund (K.)	Zorn's Engraved Work	Stockholm	1920-21	GBP -	18.00
550	Beruete y Moret (A. de) and others	Album de la Galeria de Pinturas del Museo del Prado	Barcelona	1925	GBP -	3.75
551		Burlington Magazine Monograph		[1925]	GBP -	4.50
552	Calvert (A. F.)	Spain		1924	GBP -	3.75
553	Dodgson (Campbell)	A Complete Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Edmund Blampied		1926	GBP -	2.50
554	Dodgson (Campbell)	Etchings and Dry Points by Muirhead Bone			GBP -	2.75
555	Hayden (A.)	Royal Copenhagen Porcelain		1911	GBP -	7.50
556	Hardie (Martin)	Etchings and Dry Points by James McBey		1925	GBP -	2.25
557	Hobson (R. L.) and A. L. Hetherington	The Art of the Chinese Potter		1923	GBP -	11.50
558	Hobson (R. L.)	Chinese Art		1927	GBP -	2.25
559	Hodgson (Mrs. W.)	Old English China		1913	GBP -	3.50
560	Hind (A. M.)	The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron			GBP -	1.00
561	Humphreys (A. L.)	Old Decorative Maps		1926	GBP -	5.00
562	Knorr (G. W.)	Les Delices des Yeux et de L'Esprit	Nuremberg	1764-65	GBP -	8.00
563	Laver (J.)	A History of British and American Etching			GBP -	2.00
564	Lawrence (T. E.)	Revolt in the Desert		1927	GBP -	2.50
565	[Maude (John)]	Visit to the Falls of Niagara		1826	GBP -	18.00
566	Nevill (R.)	Old English Sporting Prints		1923	GBP -	2.00
567	Oppe (A. P.)	Thomas Rowlandson		1923	GBP -	0.75
568	[Pennant (T.)]	A Tour in Scotland			GBP -	4.00
569	Razzi (Silvano)	Vita di Piero-Soderini	Padua	1737	GBP -	1.00
570	Rinder (F.) D. Y. Cameron	an illustrated catalogue	Glasgow	1912	GBP -	0.50
571	Silver (Lieut. J. M. W.)	Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs		1921	GBP -	5.50
572	Sullivan (Sir E.)	The Book of Kells		1914	GBP -	4.50
573	Thorburn (A.)	British Birds		1925-26	GBP -	8.00
574	Thornton (Col. T.)	A Sporting Tour			GBP -	3.50
575	Alken (H.)	The National Sports of Great Britain		1903	GBP -	20.00
576		Burlington House Exhibition		1927	GBP -	2.00
577	Edwards (L.)	The Passing Seasons			GBP -	3.50
578	Edwards (L.)	A Sportsman's Bag	Country Life		GBP -	4.50
579	Jameson (Mrs. A. B.)	The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second		1833	GBP -	2.25
580	Missale S.	Monasteriensis Ecclesiae	Antwerpiae	1632	GBP -	14.00
581	Nizami	Poems		1928	GBP -	6.50
582	Stewart (Basil)	Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints		1922	GBP -	7.50
583	Thomson (J.)	The Seasons			GBP -	5.50
584	Thorburn (A.)	Game Birds and Wild-Fowl		1923	GBP -	4.50

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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