Rare Books

Catalogue of the costly appointments, furnishings and panelling of the Mauretania : including settees and easy chairs in moquette and tapestry, sets of chairs in the Chippendale and Hepplewhite taste, dining and occasional tables, bookcases, cabinets, fine quality Wilton and Axminster carpets. Magnificent panelling of weathered oak, harewood, mahogany, walnut, &c., in the Francois 1er, Italian Renaissance and 18th century English styles. Costly appointments of the numerous cabins in mahogany, walnut, satinwood, maple and birch, marble and wood mantelpieces and columns, sanitary goods, equiptment of ship's cuisine, fire appliances, ornamental electric light fittings, fans, navigating instruments, electric cranes and the life boats. Hampton & Sons are instructed to sell the above by auction aboard the vessel, in Southampton Docks (by permission of the Southern Railway Company), on Tuesday, May 14th, 1935, and 7 following days, at 11.30 o'clock each day. Private view (admission by catalog