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
101	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	The Yellow Book.	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
102	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	The Savoy. Edited by A. Symons.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
103	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	The Savoy.	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
104	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	Ben Jonson his Volpone: or the Foxe, 1898; one of 1,000 copies; The Rape of the Lock (Pope), 1896 ...	London	1896-98	USD -	Unknown
105	BEARDSLEY, A.	A Book of Fifty Drawings, 1897; signed by the publisher; A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, 1899. Both ...	London	1897-99	USD -	Unknown
106	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	Ben'Jonson his Volpone: or The Foxe . . .	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
107	BEARDSLEY, A.	Early Work, 1899; Later Work, 1901. Illustrations.	London	1899-1901	USD -	Unknown
108	E. Dowson	[BEARDSLEY, A.] The Pierrot of the Minute, Lond., 1897, First Edition with the Beardsley ...			USD -	Unknown
109	BEARDSLEY, A.	The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1899; The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1901; The Uncollected ...	London	1899[-1925]	USD -	Unknown
110	[BEARDSLEY, A.]	The Yellow Book.	London	1904-07	USD -	Unknown
111	BEARDSLEY, A.	The Pay of the Pied Piper.	N.p.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
112	BEARDSLEY, A.	A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, Lond., 1899, First Edition; Some Unknown Drawings of Aubrey ...			USD -	Unknown
113	BEARDSLEY, A.	Under the Hill, 1904; Limited Edition on Japan paper; The same, ordinary edition; The Later Work of ...	London	1901-04	USD -	Unknown
114	BEARDSLEY, A.	Under the Hill, Lond., 1904; The Story of Venus and Tannhauser, Lond., 1907; one of 300 copies; Ben ...			USD -	Unknown
115		[BEARDSLEY, A.] Aubrey Beardsley, the Man and his Work (Mac-Fall), Lond. [1928]; Aubrey Beardsley's ...			USD -	Unknown
116	BEAUMONT, F. and J. FLETCHER	Dramatic Works.	London	1778	USD -	Unknown
117	BEDE, V.	The History of the Church of Englande.	Stratford-upon Avon	1930	USD -	Unknown
118	BEDIER, J.	Les Fabliaux etudes de Litterature Populaire et d'Histoire Litteraire du Moyen Age.	Paris	1895	USD -	Unknown
119	BEHME, J.	Aurora. That is, the Day-Spring. Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient . . .	London	1656	USD -	Unknown
120	BEHN, A.	The Amorous Prince, or the Curious Husband.	London	1671	USD -	Unknown
121	BEHN, A.	The Younger Brother: or, The Amorous Jilt. A Comedy, acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's ...	London	1696	USD -	Unknown
122	BELLOC, H.	Robespierre.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
123	BELLOWS, G. W.	His Lithographs.	New York	1927	USD -	Unknown
124	BESANT, W.	Mediaeval London.	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
125		BEWIJSINGHE (DE) vande onschult van mijn Heere Philips Baenre-heere van Montmorency, Grave van ...	Maent	1568	USD -	Unknown
126		BIBELOT, THE.	Portland	1895-1915	USD -	Unknown
127		BIBLE. Biblia Sacra.	Lugduni	1554	USD -	Unknown
128		BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing The Old and New Testaments.	Oxford	1769	USD -	Unknown
129		BIBLE. The English Bible.	London	1903-04	USD -	Unknown
130		BIBLIORUM SACORUM VULGATE VERSIONIS EDITIO.	Parisiis	1785	USD -	Unknown
131		BINDING. Old red velvet dummy shaped like a book.			USD -	Unknown
132		BINDING ATTRIBUTED TO DEROME. Phaedri Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum.	Leyden	1727	USD -	Unknown
133	W. Y. Fletcher	BINDING. Bookbinding in England and France.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
134	G. K. Chesterton	BINDING. Five Types.	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
135	M. West	BINDING. Clair de Lune.	N.p.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
136	R. P. Lesson	BIRDS. Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux Mouches; Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, suivie d'un ...	Paris	[1829-35]	USD -	Unknown
137	J. G. Millais	BIRDS. The Natural History of British Game Birds.	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
138		BLACK SUN PRESS. H. Crosby. Shadows of the Sun, 1928; chapters numbered I-V; printed on India paper ...	Paris	1928-30	USD -	Unknown
139		BLACK SUN PRESS. A. MacLeish. Einstein, 1929; New Found Land, 1930.	Paris	1929-30	USD -	Unknown
140		BLACK SUN PRESS. Spring Song of Iscariot (Lymington), 1929; Imaginary Letters (Pound), 1930; First ...	Paris	1929-30	USD -	Unknown
141		BLACK SUN PRESS. Escaped Cock (Lawrence), 1929; Imaginary Letters (Pound), 1930; A Sentimental ...	Paris	1929-30	USD -	Unknown
142		BLACK SUN PRESS. H. Crosby. Shadows of the Sun, 1928; Sonnets for Caresse, 1927, Japan paper copy ...	Paris	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
143		BLACK SUN PRESS. H. Crosby. Torchbearer, 1931; Mad Queen, 1929 Sonnets for Caresse, 1927, Japan ...	Paris	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
144		BLACK SUN PRESS. Chamber Music (Joyce), 1936; Misfortunes of the Immortals (Ernst and Eluard), 1943 ...	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
145	BLAKE, W.	Line Engraving of Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims.			USD -	Unknown
146	BLAKE, W.	Line Engraving of Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims.			USD -	Unknown
147	J. Gay.	[BLAKE, W.] Fables.	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
148	J. G. Stedman	[BLAKE, W.] Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in ...	London	1796	USD -	Unknown
149	W. Hayley	[BLAKE, W.] The Life and Posthumous Writings by William Cowper, Esqr.	Chichester	1803-04	USD -	Unknown
150	J. G. Stedman	[BLAKE, W.] Narrative of a Five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana ...	London	1806	USD -	Unknown
151	R. Blair	[BLAKE, W.] The Grave.	London	1813	USD -	Unknown
152	BLAKE, W.	Pencil Drawings [Lond.:] Nonesuch Press [1927]; limited edition; Songs of Innocence, n.p., n.d., 2 ...			USD -	Unknown
153	BLANCHE, J. E.	Corrected Proof Sheets of Propos de Peintre.	[Paris]	[1918?]	USD -	Unknown
154	BOCCACCIO, G.	The Decameron.	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
155		BODONI PRESS. Anacreontis teii Odaria Praefixo, Commentario, etc.	Parmae	[1785]	USD -	Unknown
156	T. Tasso	BODONI PRESS. Aminta favola Boschereccia di Torquato Tasso ora per la prima volta alla sua vera ...	Crisopoli	1789	USD -	Unknown
157		BODONI PRESS. Anacreon. Odae.	Parmae	1791	USD -	Unknown
158	BONAVENTURA, SAINT	Scriptum super secundum Sententiarum.	Venice	1477	USD -	Unknown
159	BONAVENTURA, SAINT	Sermones de tempore et de Sanctis.	Reutlingen	1485	USD -	Unknown
160	C. Davenport	BOOKBINDING. Roger Payne, English Bookbinder of the Eighteenth Century.	Chicago	1929	USD -	Unknown
161		BOOK OF THE DEAD. Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet.	London	1899	USD -	Unknown
162	T. H. Horne	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography.	London	1814	USD -	Unknown
163		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. J. C. Brunet. Manuel du Libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, 6 vols., 1860-5 ...	Paris	1860-80	USD -	Unknown
164		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Philobiblon. A Monthly Bibliographical Journal.	New York	1862-63	USD -	Unknown
165	W. T. Lowndes	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
166		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Glance at the Grimani Breviary preserved in S. Mark's Library, Venice.	[Venice]	1903	USD -	Unknown
167	M. B. Stillwell	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Incunabula and Americana, 1450-1800.	New York	1931	USD -	Unknown
168	G. Keynes	BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. John Evelyn. A Study in Bib-liophily & a Bibliography of his Writings.	New York	1937	USD -	Unknown
169		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Rare Books, Original Drawings . . .	New York	1941	USD -	Unknown
170		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A. T. Hazen. A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, with a Record of the ...	New Haven	1942	USD -	Unknown
171		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne (Keknes), Cambridge, 1924; one of 500 copies ...			USD -	Unknown
172		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. English Books, 1475-1900 (Sawyer and Darton), 2 vols., Westminster, 1927; Books ...			USD -	Unknown
173		BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, etc. The Great Book-Collectors (Elton), Lond., 1893; Philobiblon (De Bury), Lond ...			USD -	Unknown
174		BOSTON MASSACRE ORATIONS. A collection of Orations in Commemoration of the Massacre which took place ...	Boston	1771-75	USD -	Unknown
175		BOTANIC GARDEN, THE (Darwin), 2 vols., Lond., 1799; English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I ( ...			USD -	Unknown
176	Y. Yashiro	[BOTTICELLI, S.] Sandro Botticelli.	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
177	BOURBASSE, J. J.	La Touraine. Histoire des Monuments.	Tours	1856	USD -	Unknown
178		BRONTE SISTERS. Life and Works.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
179	BROWNE, T.	Sir Thomas Browne's Works, including his Life and Correspondence.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
180	BROWNE, T.	Writings.	Boston	1862	USD -	Unknown
181	BROWNE, T.	Works. Edited by G. Keynes.	London	1928	USD -	Unknown
182		BRITISH MUSEUM QUARTERLY. Vols. I-XII, complete; Vol. XIII, nos. 1-3, May, 1926-September, 1939 ...	London	1926-39	USD -	Unknown
183		BRITISH POETS. The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by S ...	London	1790	USD -	Unknown
184	BROWNING, R. and E. BARRETT	A.L.s. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1 1/3 pp. [Casa Guidi, Florence, Italy] circa 1856. With ...			USD -	Unknown
185	BROWNING, E. B.	Last Poems.	London	1862	USD -	Unknown
186	BROWNING, R.	Poetical Works.	London	1888-94	USD -	Unknown
187	[BROWNING, R.]	The Old Yellow Book, source of Browning's The Ring and the Book . . . with Translation, Essay, and ...	Washington	1908	USD -	Unknown
188	J. M. Guest	[BROWNING, R.] The Old Yellow Book. Source of Browning's the Ring and the Book.	Philadelphia	1927	USD -	Unknown
189	BRYANT, W. C.	Hymns.	[New York]	[1869]	USD -	Unknown
190	BRYCE, J.	Studies in Comtemporary Biography.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
191	A. Von Le Coq.	BUDDHIST ART. Die Buddhistische Spatantike in Mittelasien.	Berlin	1924	USD -	Unknown
192	BUNYAN, J.	The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to That which is to come. The Second Part.	Boston	1744	USD -	Unknown
193	[BURNEY, F.]	Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay.	London	1842	USD -	Unknown
194	BURNS, R.	Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dielect.	New York	1788	USD -	Unknown
195	BURTON, J. H.	The Book-Hunter.	Edinburgh	1882	USD -	Unknown
196	BURTON, R.	The Anatomy of Melancholy.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
197	[BURTON, SIR R.]	The Kasidah (Couplets) of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi: A Lay of the Higher Law.	London	[1880]	USD -	Unknown
198		BURY-FAIR (Shadwell), Lond., 1689; The Dunciad (Pope), Lond., 1729; A Trip to Scarborough (Sheridan ...			USD -	Unknown
199		[BUTLER, S.] Hudibras. The First Part, 1663; The same. The Second Part, 1664; The same. The Third ...	London	1663-78	USD -	Unknown
200		[BUTLER, S.] Hudibras. The First Part, 1663; The same. The Second Part, 1664; lacks H8 [blank]; The ...	London	1663-78	USD -	Unknown

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