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
201	BYRON, G. G., LORD	Hours of Idleness.	Newark	1807	USD -	Unknown
202	BYRON, G. G., LORD	English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers.	[London]	1809	USD -	Unknown
203	BYRON, G. G., LORD	Manfred, a Dramatic Poem.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
204	[BYRON, G. G., LORD]	Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron.	London	1833	USD -	Unknown
205		CALLIMACHUS. Hymni Graeci-Italiano.	Parma . . .	1792	USD -	Unknown
206	Edited by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller	CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.	Cambridge	1908	USD -	Unknown
207	CARLYLE, T.	Past and Present.	London	1843	USD -	Unknown
208	CARLYLE, T.	Works.	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
209	CARROLL, L.	Alice's Adventures under Ground.	London	1886	USD -	Unknown
210		CATHEDRALE DE CHARTRES. Portail Sud, 2 vols.; Architecture; Portail Royal; and others. Plates.	N.p.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
211		CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND and WALES. B. Winkles. Architectural and Pictures Illustrations of the ...	London	1837-42	USD -	Unknown
212		CAVE PAINTINGS. Peintures et Gravures Murales des Cavernes Paleolithiques. Publiees sous les ...	Monago	1906-15	USD -	Unknown
213	M. Pezard	CERAMICS. La Ceramique Archaique de Islam et ses Origines.	Paris	1920	USD -	Unknown
214	CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, M. DE.	The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	1756	USD -	Unknown
215	CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, M. DE.	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.	Madrid	1780	USD -	Unknown
216	CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, M. DE.	El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.	Madrid	1782	USD -	Unknown
217	CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA, M. DE.	Don Quixote de la Mancha.	London	1837-39	USD -	Unknown
218	T. Tyrwhite	CHAUCER, G. Canterbury Tales. To which are added an Essay . . .	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
219		CHERAMY COLLECTION sales catalog of paintings, sold in Paris, May 5-7, 1908; Catalogue des Tableaux ...			USD -	Unknown
220	CHESTERFIELD, P. D. S., EARL OF.	Letters . . . Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
221		CHINA. Archaeologica Sinaica.	Nanking	1943	USD -	Unknown
222	R. L. Hobson	CHINESE ART. The Wares of the Ming Dynasty.	New York	1923	USD -	Unknown
223	R. L. Hobson	CHINESE ART. The Later Ceramic Wares of China.	New York	1925	USD -	Unknown
224	A. Salmony	CHINESE ART. Asiatische Kunst. Ausstellung Koln 1926.	Munich	[1929]	USD -	Unknown
225	E. F. Fenollosa	CHINESE ART. Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
226		CHINESE BRONZES. Shina-Kodo-Seikwa or Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in ...	Osaka	1933	USD -	Unknown
227	H. A. Giles	CHINESE DICTIONARY. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.	London	1898	USD -	Unknown
228	P. Pelliot	CHINESE JADES. Jades Archaiques de Chine Apparte-nant A. M. C. T. Loo.	Paris	1925	USD -	Unknown
229	A. Stein	CHINESE PAINTINGS. The Thousand Buddhas, Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave Temples on the ...	London	1921	USD -	Unknown
230	O. Siren	CHINESE SCULPTURE. La Sculpture Chinoise du Ve au XIVe Siecle.	Paris	1925-26	USD -	Unknown
231		CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE. Recruiting Poster. An Entire Company from Ulysses . . . $90 Bounty Still Paid ...		1862	USD -	Unknown
232	[CLEMENS, S. L.]	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.	Hartford	1876	USD -	Unknown
233	[CLEMENS, S. L.]	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
234	COCTEAU, J.	Picasso, 1923; inscribed by Cocleau; Le Secret profes-sionnel, 1922; * La Rose de Francois, poeme ...	Paris	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
235	COLE, T.	Old Italian Masters, 1909; Old English Masters, 1902; Old Spanish Masters, 1907; Old Dutch and ...	New York	1902-11	USD -	Unknown
236	COLERIDGE, S. T.	Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
237	COLERIDGE, S. T.	Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems.	London	1817	USD -	Unknown
238	[COLLIER, J. P.]	Punch and Judy.	London	1828	USD -	Unknown
239	COLONNA, F.	Le Songe de Poliphile ou Hypnerotomachie . . .	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
240	COLONNA, F.	Le Songe de Polophile ou Hypnerotomachie . . .	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
241	COLONNA, F.	Poliphili Hypnerotomachia.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
242	COLONNA, F.	Poliphili Hypnerotomachia.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
243	COMINES, P. DE.	The History of Comines.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
244	[COMINES, P. DE]	The History of Comines.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
245		COMPLEAT ENGLISH GENTLEMEN (Defoe), Lond., 1890; one of 60 copies on Large Paper; The Sketch Book ( ...			USD -	Unknown
246		COMPLETE ANGLER, THE (Walton and Cotton), Lond., 1824; Poetical Works (Cowper), 2 vols., Edinburgh ...			USD -	Unknown
247		COMPLETE ANGLER, THE (Walton and Cotton), 1875; The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, etc ...	London	1825-75	USD -	Unknown
248		CORPUS CODICUM AMERICANORUM MEDIIAEVI. E. Mengin, editor.	Havniae	1942-1949	USD -	Unknown
249		COSTUME. The Punishments of China.	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
250	O. Fischel and M. Von Boehn	COSTUME. Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century.	London	1927	USD -	Unknown
251	R. Klein	COSTUMES. Lexikon der Mode.	Baden-Baden	[1950]	USD -	Unknown
252	COWPER, W.	Poems. [Vol. I.] 1782; [Vol. II.] The Task, 1785.	London	1782-85	USD -	Unknown
253	COWPER, W.	Poems. [Vol. I.] 1782; [Vol. II.] The Task, a Poem in Six Books, 1785.	London	1782-85	USD -	Unknown
254	COWPER, W.	Poems. [Vol. I.] 1782; [Vol. II.] The Task, a Poem in Six Books, 1785.	London	1782-85	USD -	Unknown
255	COWPER, W.	Poems, 2 vols., 1782-6, First Edition of vol. 1, no preface; The same, another edition, 2 vols ...	London	1782-88	USD -	Unknown
256	CRANE, H.	The Bridge.	Paris	1930	USD -	Unknown
257	CREBILLON, C. P. J. DE.	Oeuvres.	Paris	1797	USD -	Unknown
258	CROSBY, H.	Red Skeletons.	Paris	1927	USD -	Unknown
259		CROSBY, H. and C. Crosses of Gold (C. Crosby), Paris, 1925; Impossible Melodies, Paris, 1928 ...			USD -	Unknown
260	CULVER, H. B.	The Book of Old Ships, and Something of their Evolution and Romance.	Garden City	1924	USD -	Unknown
261		CURIOUS AND FACETIOUS LETTERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, n.p., 1898; As the Old Order was Changing ( ...			USD -	Unknown
262		CURRIER AND IVES COLORED LITHOGRAPH. Cherry Time. F. F. Palmer del.		1866	USD -	Unknown
263		CURRIER AND IVES COMICS. Five colored lithographs as follows: The Darktown Tally Ho: Tonsorial Art ...			USD -	Unknown
264	DANA, R. H., JR.	Two Years Before the Mast.	Chicago	1930	USD -	Unknown
265		DANTE. Le Terze di Dante.	[Venice]	[1502]	USD -	Unknown
266	DEBUCOURT, P. L.	La Rose Mai Defendue.			USD -	Unknown
267	DEFOE, D.	Romances and Narratives.	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
268	DENNISTOUN, J.	Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino.	London	1851	USD -	Unknown
269		DESCENT OF MAN, THE (Darwin), 2 vols., Lond., 1871; second issue; Better Dead (Barrie), Lond., 1888 ...			USD -	Unknown
270	DIBDIN, T. F. and others	Typographical Antiquities: or The History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland.	London	1810-19	USD -	Unknown
271	DIBDIN, T. F.	A collection of the Writings of T. F. Didbin.	London	1811-38	USD -	Unknown
272	DIBDIN, T. F.	A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
273	DIBDIN, T. F.	An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics.	London	1827	USD -	Unknown
274	DIBDIN, T. F.	A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.	London	1829	USD -	Unknown
275	DICKENS, C.	Dombey and Son.	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
276	DICKENS C.	Bleak House.	London	1853	USD -	Unknown
277	DICKENS, C.	The Battle of Life, 1846, 5 copies; The Chimes, 1845, second issue; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846 ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
278		DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY (Wedgwood), N. Y., 1878; Dictionnaire Infernal (Dollin de Plancy ...			USD -	Unknown
279	[DIGBY, K. H.]	The Broad Stone of Honour.	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
280		DON QUICHOTTE DE LA MANCHA (Cervantes), 6 vols., n.d.; Voyage de l'lnde a la Mekke (Langles), 6 vols ...	Paris	1797 and n.d.	USD -	Unknown
281		DON QUIXOTE (Cervantes), 4 vols., Lond., 1901; Plutarch's Romane Questions, Lond., 1892; New Essays ...			USD -	Unknown
282	M. De Cervantes Saavedra	DORE ILLUSTRATIONS. L'Tngenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche.	Paris	1863	USD -	Unknown
283	DRYDEN, J.	The Spanish Fryar or, The Double Discovery.	London	1681	USD -	Unknown
284		DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. Contes des Mille et Une Nuits, Paris, n.d.; Stories from the Arabian Nights ...			USD -	Unknown
285	DU MAURIER, G.	Trilby.	London	1905	USD -	Unknown
286	DUTT, M. N. Ed.	A Prose English Translation of the Mahabharata.	Calcutta	1895-1903	USD -	Unknown
287		EARLY PRINTED BOOKS (Duff), Lond., 1893; Early Illustrated Books (Pollard), Lond., 1893; The Natural ...			USD -	Unknown
288		EGYPT. Theodore M. Davis' Excavations: Biban el Moluk: The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou, 1907; The ...			USD -	Unknown
289		EGYPT. Ancient Egyptian Works of Art (Weigall), Lond., n.d.; A History of Babylon (King), Lond ...			USD -	Unknown
290		EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND PUBLICATIONS: [12th Memoir] The Temple of Deir El Bahari, 1894; [13th-18th ...			USD -	Unknown
291		EGYPTIAN TOMBS. N. De G. Davies. The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes, 1917; The Tomb of Puyemre at Thebes, 2 ...	New York	1917-23	USD -	Unknown
292		EIKON BASILIKE. The Portraicture of His Sacred Maiestie [Charles] in his Solitudes and Sufferings ...			USD -	Unknown
293		ELEPHANTS AND ETHNOLOGISTS (Smith), Lond., 1924; Arboreal Man (Jones), Lond., 1916 The Gods of ...			USD -	Unknown
294	ELIOT, T. S.	Poems, 1909-1925.	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
295	ELIOT, T. S.	The Waste Land, N. Y., n.d., with 3 L.s. by the author; Of Dramatick Poesie (Dryden). Preceded by a ...			USD -	Unknown
296	EMERSON, R. W.	Essays.	Boston	1841	USD -	Unknown
297		ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.	Cambridge and London	1922 [26]	USD -	Unknown
298		ENGLISH AUTHORS. Poetical Works (Shelley), edited by Mrs. Shelley, 4 vols., 1839; Works (Lamb), 4 ...			USD -	Unknown
299		ENGLISH AUTHORS. Poetical Works (Milton), 7 vols., Lond., 1809; The Faerie Queen (Spenser), 4 vols ...			USD -	Unknown
300		ENGLISH AUTHORS. The Life of Samuel Johnson, 10 vols., 1835; Poetical Works (Southey), 10 vols ...	London	1835-38	USD -	Unknown

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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