Parke Bernet: GENERAL LITERAUTE JOHN BASKERVILLE PUBLICATIONS LITERARY AND HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MSS, DOCUMENTS CORRECTED PROOFS, LOTTERY TICKETS. COLLECTED BY THE LATE REV. DR. HARRIS E. KIRK, BALTIMORE SOLD BY ORDER OF MRS. KIRK SELECTIONS FROM THE LIBARY OF , 1552,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 23, 1954 - November 23, 1954

Page Size: 874 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS, THE (Le Sage), 4 vols., Lond., 1904; The Heptameron, 5 vols., Lond., n.d ...			USD -	Unknown
2	AINSWORTH, W. H.	Stanley Brereton.	London	[1881]	USD -	Unknown
3	AINSWORTH, W. H.	Works. Plates by G. Cruikshank, H. K. Browne, and others.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
4		ALASTAIR ILLUSTRATIONS. Forty-Three Drawings by Alastair. Lond., 1904; Fifty Drawings by Alastair. N ...			USD -	Unknown
5	H. Crosby	ALASTAIR ILLUSTRATIONS. Red Skeletons.	Paris	1927	USD -	Unknown
6	C. Sigonii	ALDINE PRESS. Pro Eloquentia Orationes IIII.	Venetiis	1555	USD -	Unknown
7	E. A. Jones	AMERICAN SILVER. The Old Silver of American Churches.	Letchworth	1913	USD -	Unknown
8	[ANDERSEN, H. C.]	The Riverside Magazine for Young People.	New York	1868-70	USD -	Unknown
9	ANDERSEN, H. C.	Die Nachtigall.	[Berlin]	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
10	ANDREWS, W. L.	Fragments of American History.	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
11	ANDREWS, W. L.	New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
12	Sr Iohn Harington	[ARIOSTO, L.] Orlando Furioso In English Heroical Verse.	London	1634	USD -	Unknown
13		ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Plates. 9 vols., 1884; Tales from the ...	London	1884-87	USD -	Unknown
14		ARISTOPHANES. The Eleven Comedies . . .	London	1912	USD -	Unknown
15	J. Charles-Roux	ARLES. Aries. Son Histoire. Ses Monuments. Ses Musees.	Paris	1914	USD -	Unknown
16		ARMOR. Baron de Cosson. Le Cabinet d'Armes de Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Duc De Dino.	Paris	1901	USD -	Unknown
17	ARNOLD, M.	Poems.	London	1885	USD -	Unknown
18		ARTISTS. Odilon Redon, Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur (Mellerio), Anders Zorn, Aquafortiste ( ...	Paris	1923	USD -	Unknown
19		ART OF POETRY (Aristotle), 1709; The Metamorphosis, or Golden Ass (Apuleius), 1822; The Golden Ass ( ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
20		ARTS ET ARCHEOLOGIE KHMERS. Vol. 1, parts I to IV, 4 parts, vol. II, parts I-II, 2 vols., Numerous ...	Paris	1921-25	USD -	Unknown
21		ATELIER ROSA-BONHEUR, catalogue de Tableaux par Rosa Bonheur . . . la vente, Paris, May 30-June 2 ...			USD -	Unknown
22	AUDUBON, J. J.	The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories.	New York	1840-4	USD -	Unknown
23	AUDUBON, J. J. and J. BACHMAN	The Quadrupeds of North America.	New York	1849-51-54	USD -	Unknown
24	AUGUSTINUS, A.	Epitome Omnium Operum . . . Dpiscopi Hipponensis, primum quidem per Iohannem Piscatorium copendiaria ...	Coloniae	1549	USD -	Unknown
25	AUGUSTINE, SAINT	Confessions.	London	1900	USD -	Unknown
26	AUSTEN, J.	Novels.	Edinburgh	1905	USD -	Unknown
27	J. White	AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, etc. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales . . .	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
28	BACON, SIR F.	The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry The Seuenth.	London	1622	USD -	Unknown
29	BACON, F.	Works.	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
30	BAKST, L.	The Story of Leon Bakst's Life.	[New York]	1922	USD -	Unknown
31	BALLADS, F. J. CHILDS	English and Scottish Ballads.	Boston	1860	USD -	Unknown
32	BALZAC, H. DE.	La comedie Humaine.	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
33	BARRIE, J. M.	Auld Licht Idylls, 1888; My Lady Nicotine, 1890; name inscribed on front fly-leaf.	London	1888-90	USD -	Unknown
34	BARRIE, J. M.	An Edinburgh Eleven.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
35	BARTOLI, P. S.	Museum Odescalchum sive Thesaurus Antiquarum Gem-marym . . .	Rome	1751-52	USD -	Unknown
36		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Virgilius. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis.	Birmingham	1757	USD -	Unknown
37	[J. Huckell]	BASKERVILLE PRESS. Avon, a Poem in Three Parts.	London	1757	USD -	Unknown
38		BASKERVILLE PRESS. J. Milton. Paradise Lost . . . From the Text of Thomas Newton; Paradise Regain'd ...	Birmingham	1758	USD -	Unknown
39		BASKERVILLE PRESS. J. Milton. Paradise Lost . . . From the Text of Thomas Newton; Paradise Regain'd ...	Birmingham	1758	USD -	Unknown
40		BASKERVILLE PRESS. J. Milton. Paradise Lost . . . From the Text of Thomas Newton; Paradise Regain'd ...	Birmingham	1759	USD -	Unknown
41		BASKERVILLE PRESS. J. Milton. Paradise Lost . . . From the Text of Thomas Newton Paradise Regain'd ...	Birmingham	1760	USD -	Unknown
42		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1760	USD -	Unknown
43		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1760	USD -	Unknown
44		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1760	USD -	Unknown
45		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1760	USD -	Unknown
46		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1761	USD -	Unknown
47		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1761	USD -	Unknown
48	W. Congreve	BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works . . . consisting of his Plays and Poems.	Birmingham	1761	USD -	Unknown
49	W. Congreve	BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works.	Birmingham	1761	USD -	Unknown
50	J. Addison	BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works.	Birmingham	1761	USD -	Unknown
51		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists.	Birmingham	1761	USD -	Unknown
52	Juvenal. D.	BASKERVILLE PRESS. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae.	Birminghamiae	1761	USD -	Unknown
53		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1762	USD -	Unknown
54		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments . . .	Cambridge	1762	USD -	Unknown
55		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.	Birminghamiae	1762	USD -	Unknown
56		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.	Birminghamiae	1762	USD -	Unknown
57	T. Sternhold, and others	BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre.	Birmingham	1762	USD -	Unknown
58		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.	Birminghamiae	1762	USD -	Unknown
59		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.	Birminghamiae	1762	USD -	Unknown
60		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Novum Testamentum. [In Greek.] Juxta Exemplar Millianum.	Oxonii	1763	USD -	Unknown
61		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Novum Testamentum. [In Greek.] Juxta Exemplar Millianum.	Oxonii	1763	USD -	Unknown
62	D. Jennings	BASKERVILLE PRESS. An Introduction to the Knowledge of Medals.	London	1764	USD -	Unknown
63	R. Barclay	BASKERVILLE PRESS. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, being an Explanation and Vindication ...	Birmingham	1765	USD -	Unknown
64		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis.	Birminghamiae	1766	USD -	Unknown
65		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis.	Birminghamiae	1766	USD -	Unknown
66		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis.	Birminghamiae	1766	USD -	Unknown
67		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Works.	Birmingham	1766	USD -	Unknown
68	W. Somerville	BASKERVILLE TYPE. The Chase.	Birmingham	1767	USD -	Unknown
69		BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha.	Birmingham	1769-71	USD -	Unknown
70		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Opera.]	Birminghamiae	1770	USD -	Unknown
71	J. Free[th]	BASKERVILLE PRESS. The Political Songsters; addressed to the Sons of Freedom, and Lovers of Humour.	Birmingham	1771	USD -	Unknown
72		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera.	Birmingham	1772	USD -	Unknown
73		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera.	Birminghamiae	1772	USD -	Unknown
74		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Terence. Publii Terentii Afri Commoediae.	Birminghamiae	1772	USD -	Unknown
75		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Terence. Publii Terentii afri Comoediae.	Birminghamiae	1772	USD -	Unknown
76		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Bible. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; with the ...	Birmingham	1772	USD -	Unknown
77	T. Lucretii Cari	BASKERVILLE PRESS. De Rerum Natura.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
78	T. Lucretii Cari	BASKERVILLE PRESS. De Rerum Natura.	Birminghamiae	1773	USD -	Unknown
79	T. Lucretti Cari	BASKERVILLE PRESS. De Rerum Natura.	Birminghamiae	1773	USD -	Unknown
80	T. Lucretii Cari	BASKERVILLE PRESS. De Rerum Natura.	Birminghamiae	1773	USD -	Unknown
81		BASKERVILLE PRESS. C. Crispus Sallustius et L. Annaeus Florus.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
82		BASKERVILLE PRESS. C. Crispus Sallustius et L. Annaeus Florus.	Birminghamiae	1773	USD -	Unknown
83		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury. Character-isticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
84		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury. Character-isticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
85		BASKERVILLE PRESS. L. Ariosto. Orlando Furioso.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
86		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Ariosto. Orlando Furioso.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
87		BASKERVILLE PRESS. Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury. Character-isticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times.	Birmingham	1773	USD -	Unknown
88		BASKERVILLE PRESS. C. Crispus Sallustius et L. Annaeus Florus.	Birminghamiae	1774	USD -	Unknown
89		BASKERVILLE TYPE. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.	Birminghamiae	1777	USD -	Unknown
90	W. Bennett	[BASKERVILLE, J.] John Baskerville, the Birmingham Printer, his Press, Relations, and Friends.	Birmingham	1937	USD -	Unknown
91		[BASKERVILLE, J.] John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer (Benton), N. Y., 1944; Specimens of ...			USD -	Unknown
92	BEARDSLEY, A.	Original Pen-and-ink Drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, unsigned.			USD -	Unknown
93	BEARDSLEY, A.	Original Pen-and-ink Drawing of a jester, unsigned.			USD -	Unknown
94		[BEARDSLEY, A.] A collection of 14 original pen-and-ink drawings by aubrey beardsley.			USD -	Unknown
95	BEARDSLEY, A.	Sketch Book of Aubrey Beardsley, containing 14 some very early sketches and drawing by him ...			USD -	Unknown
96	BEARDSLEY, A.	A Collection of 42 Thumb-Nail Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, of which 31 are entirely in ink; 9 in ...			USD -	Unknown
97	BEARDSLEY, A.	12 Proofs by Aubrey Beardsley of the title-pages of the Keynotes Series.	Boston	1894-96	USD -	Unknown
98	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	The Brighton Grammar School. Annual Entertainment at the Dome, on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1888 ...	[Brighton]	[1888]	USD -	Unknown
99	T. Malory	[BEARDSLEY, A.] The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table.	[London]	[1893-94]	USD -	Unknown
100	T. Malory	[BEARDSLEY, A.] The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table.	[London]	1893-94	USD -	Unknown

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.
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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.

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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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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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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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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