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,

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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
301		ENGLISH AUTHORS. Works (Defoe), 16 vols., N. Y., 1908; Works (Thackeray), 20 vols., Lond., n.d ...			USD -	Unknown
302		ENGRAVERS. A. Bartsch. Le Peintre Graveur. Plates. 21 vols., 12mo, and oblong 4to atlas.	Leipzig	1876	USD -	Unknown
303	A. Stix	ENGRAVINGS. Meisterwerke der Graphic im XVIII Jahrhundert.	Vienna	[1921]	USD -	Unknown
304	Acheta Domestica, M. E. S.	ENTOMOLOGY. Episodes of Insect Life.	London	1849-51	USD -	Unknown
305		EPISTOLAE OBSCURORUM VIRORUM: The Latin Text with an English Rendering, Notes, and Historical ...	London	1909	USD -	Unknown
306		EPISTOLAE OBSCURORUM VIRORUM: The Latin Text with an English Rendering, Notes, and an Hitsorical ...	London	1925	USD -	Unknown
307		ESSAYS (Yeats), Lond., 1924; The Angler and his Friends (Davy), Lond., 1855; Sappho (Wharton ...			USD -	Unknown
308		ESSAYS ON THE ART OF PHEIDIAS (Waldstein), Cambridge, 1885; The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance ...			USD -	Unknown
309		ESSEX HOUSE PRESS. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio . . . done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby.	[London]	[1900]	USD -	Unknown
310		ETCHINGS. Auguste Brouet.	Paris	1923	USD -	Unknown
311		FABLE OF THE BEES (Mandeville), 2 vols., Edin., 1772; Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae (Mennis), 2 vols ...			USD -	Unknown
312		FABLIAUX ET CONTES des Poetes Francois des XI, XII, XII, XIV et XVe Siecles.	Paris	1808	USD -	Unknown
313	FALE, T.	Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling: Teaching an Easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials.	London	1627	USD -	Unknown
314		FLORENTINE PAINTING. R. Offner. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Section III ...	New York	1931-47	USD -	Unknown
315		FLOWERS, etc. Flore medicale peinte (Chaumenton, and others), 59 colored plates (of 60), vol. II ...			USD -	Unknown
316		FORE-EDGE PAINTING. The Book of Common Prayer.	Cambridge	1762	USD -	Unknown
317	[S. Johnson]	FORE-EDGE PAINTING. The Idler.	London	1816	USD -	Unknown
318	[W. Irving]	FORE-EDGE PAINTING. A History of New York.	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
319		FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Bogatsky's Golden Treasury for the Children.	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
320	W. Shakespeare	FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Works.	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
321		FOREIGN SALES CATALOGUES. Collection Antony Roux, 2 vols., Paris, 1914; the first volume is priced ...			USD -	Unknown
322		FOR LOVE OF THE KING (Wilde), Lond., n.d.; The Alhambra (Irving), N. Y., 1923; The Golden Treasury ...			USD -	Unknown
323		FORMOSA. The Myths and Traditions of the Formosan Native Tribes.	Taihoku	1935	USD -	Unknown
324	FRAZER, J. G.	The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 3 vols., 1900; The Magic Art, 2 vols., 1913; Adonis ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
325		FRENCH ENGRAVERS AND DRAUGHTSMEN of the XVIIIth Century (Dilke), London, 1902; The Drawings of ...			USD -	Unknown
326	F. Mercier	FRENCH PAINTINGS. Les Primitifs Francais . . .	[Paris]	[1931]	USD -	Unknown
327	[P. Macquoid]	FURNITURE. A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak.	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
328	[GALSWORTHY, J.]	From the Four Winds.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
329	[GALSWORTHY, J.]	From the Four Winds.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
330	[GALSWORTHY, J.]	From the Four Winds.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
331	[GALSWORTHY, J.]	From the Four Winds.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
332	[GALSWORTHY, J.]	From the Four Winds.	London	1897	USD -	Unknown
333	GAUTIER, T.	Le Roi Candaule. Preface by A. France.	Paris	1893	USD -	Unknown
334	GAUGUIN P.	Noa Noa, Voyage a Tahiti.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
335		GEETERE ILLUSTRATIONS, F. DE. Comte de Lautreamont. Les Chants de maldoror.	Paris	1927	USD -	Unknown
336	GIBBON, E.	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.	London	1854	USD -	Unknown
337	GILES, H. A.	An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, 1918; Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898 ...	London	1898-1918	USD -	Unknown
338		GIORGIO MORANDI (Scheiwilier), Chiantore, n.d.; Opere di Amedeo Modigliani (Carrieri), Milano, n.d ...			USD -	Unknown
339		GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (Symonds), Lond., 1895; Persian Letters (Montesquieu), 2 vols., Lond., 1892; Eden ...			USD -	Unknown
340		GLADWIN, F., tran. Ayeen Akbery: or, The Institutes of the Emperor Akber.	Calcutta	1783	USD -	Unknown
341	J. A. Knowles	GLASS PAINTING. Essays in the History of the York School of Glass-Painting.	London	1936	USD -	Unknown
342		GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. [P. B. Shelley.] Shelley at Oxford, 1944; Harriet & Mary, 1944; The Athenians ...	[Waltham Saint Lawrence]	1943-44	USD -	Unknown
343	[GOLDSMITH, O.]	The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq.	London	1762	USD -	Unknown
344	[GOLDSMITH, O.]	The Vicar of Wakefield.	Dublin	[Vol. I], n.d. [Vol. II], 1766	USD -	Unknown
345	GOLDSMITH, O.	The Deserted Village.	London	1841	USD -	Unknown
346	J. L. Sponsel	GOLDSMITHS. Gefasse, Figuren und Uhren aus Gold und Silber verziert in reiner Metalltechnik, oder ...	Leipzig	1928	USD -	Unknown
347		GOUDSTIKKER COLLECTION. Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker.	[Amsterdam]	[1929-30]	USD -	Unknown
348	[GOYA y LUCIENTES, FR. J. DE]	Goya (Lafond), Paris, n.d.; Masters of Etching: Francisco de Goya. Introduction by M. C. Salaman ...			USD -	Unknown
349	M. Collignon	GREEK ART. Les Statues Funeraires dans l'Art Grec.	Paris	1911	USD -	Unknown
350	GREEN, MRS J. R.	Town Life in the Fifteenth Century.	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
351	C. Caldwell	[GREENE, N.] Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of the Hon. Nathaniel Greene.	Philadelphia	1819	USD -	Unknown
352		GUTENBERG BIBLE. Johannes Gutenbergs Zweiundvierzigeilige Bible.	Leipzig	1923	USD -	Unknown
353	HAKLUYT, R.	The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ...	London	1598-1600	USD -	Unknown
354	HALLAM, H.	Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 3 vols., Lond., 1854; View of the State of Europe during ...	London	1854-68	USD -	Unknown
355	HAMILTON, A.	Memoirs of Count Grammont. Portraits; some slight foxing and offsets.	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
356	HAMILTON, A.	Memoirs of Count Grammont.	London	1811	USD -	Unknown
357	T. E. Pemberton	[HARTE, B.] The Life of Bret Harte.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
358	HAWTHORNE, N.	The Scarlet Letter.	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
359	HAWTHORNE, N.	The Marble Faun.	Boston	1890	USD -	Unknown
360	HEMINGWAY, E.	A Farewell to Arms.	New York	1929	USD -	Unknown
361	HEMINGWAY, E.	Men Without Women, N. Y., 1927; with an A.L.s. by the author; The Torrents of Spring, N. Y., 1926 ...			USD -	Unknown
362	HERBERT, G.	Works.	London	1873	USD -	Unknown
363		HIEROGLYPHES. La Science des Hieroglyphes, ou l'Art d'exprimer par des Figures Symboliques, les ...	La Haye	1736	USD -	Unknown
364		HINDU MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES (Dubois), Oxford, 1906; The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt ...			USD -	Unknown
365		HISTOIRE DE GIL BLAS DE SANTILLANE (Lesage), Paris, 1747; The same, another edition, Londres, 1749 ...			USD -	Unknown
366		HISTORIES OF POLYMIUS, THE (Hultsch), trans by E. S. Shuck-burgh, 2 vols., Lond., 1889; The ...			USD -	Unknown
367		HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ITALIAN MAJOLICA, A (Solon), Lond., 1907; Outlines of Chinese Art ( ...			USD -	Unknown
368		HISTORY OF OLIVER AND ARTHUR, THE (Leighton and Barrett, translators) [Cambridge, 1903] designed by ...			USD -	Unknown
369	HOBSON, R. L. and E. S. MORSE	Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries.	New York	1914	USD -	Unknown
370		HOE CATALOGUE of Valuable Art Property, sold at American Art Association, Feb. 15-March 3, 1911 ...			USD -	Unknown
371		HOGARTH MORALIZED (Trusler), Lond., 1831; Ethan Frome (Wharton), N. Y., 1924; Chamber Music (Joyce ...			USD -	Unknown
372	HOLBEIN, H.	The Dances of Death, through the various stages of Human Life; wherein the Capriciousness of that ...	London	1803	USD -	Unknown
373	HOLTON, E. D.	Travels with Jottings.	Milwaukee	1880	USD -	Unknown
374		HORACE. Opera. The text entirely engraved and numerous plates, vignettes and fleurons, the whole ...	Londini	1733-37	USD -	Unknown
375		HORACE. Opera. The text entirely engraved and numerous plates, vignettes and fleurons, the whole ...	Londini	1733-37	USD -	Unknown
376		HORACE. Opera. Text entirely engraved and plates, vignettes and Fleurons, the whole engraved by J ...	Londini	1733-37	USD -	Unknown
377		HORACE. Works. With a Life by the Rev. Henry H. Milman.	London	1849	USD -	Unknown
378		HORACE (Simeon), 3 vols., Paris, 1874; The Life of Napoleon I (Rose), 2 vols., Lond., 1902; Memoirs ...			USD -	Unknown
379		HUDIBRAS (Butler), 2 vols., Lond., 1847; Clement Marot (Morley), 2 vols., Lond., 1871; Life of ...			USD -	Unknown
380	[HUGHES, T.]	Tom Brown's School Days.	Cambridge	1857	USD -	Unknown
381	[HUGHES, T.]	The Scouring of the White Horse.	Cambridge	1859	USD -	Unknown
382	[HUGHES, T.]	Tom Brown at Oxford.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
383	HOWELL, J.	Epistolae Ho Eliane. Familiar Letters.	London	1892	USD -	Unknown
384		INCUNABULA. Incunabula Typographica. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in The Fifteenth ...	Baltimore	1906	USD -	Unknown
385	E. La Roche	INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. Indische Baukunst. Herausgegeben unter mitwirkung von Alfred Sarasin.	Munich	1921-22	USD -	Unknown
386		INDIAN PAINTING. A. Coomaraswamy. Rajput Painting.	Oxford	1916	USD -	Unknown
387		ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. Manuscript written on 189 leaves of vellum measuring 5 5/8 by 3 3/ ...	Probably Rouen	late XIII or early XIV century	USD -	Unknown
388		ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM. [Brevariarium cum calendario. Ad usum Dominicanum.]	Germany	late XV Century	USD -	Unknown
389	R. Carrieri	ITALIAN DESIGN. Il Disegno Italiano Contemporaneo.	Milano	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
390	A. L. Lanzi	ITALIAN PAINTING. Storia Pittorica della Italia.	Bassano	1795-96	USD -	Unknown
391	C. Denina	ITALY. Delle Rivoluzioni d'ltalia.	Torino	1769-70	USD -	Unknown
392		JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Legenda aurea.	Nuremberg	April 11, 1481	USD -	Unknown
393	JACOBUS DE VORAGINE	Legenda aurea.	Ulm	1488	USD -	Unknown
394	[JAMES, H.]	L. Edel. The Prefaces of Henry James; Henry James: les Annees Dramatiques.	Paris	1931	USD -	Unknown
395	L. Gonse	JAPANESE ART. L'Art Japonais.	Paris	1883	USD -	Unknown
396		JAPANESE ART. Relics of Han and Pre-Han Dynasties.	Tokyo	[1932]	USD -	Unknown
397		JAPANESE ART. Sale catalogue of Baron Kawasaki collection.	[Kobe]	[1936]	USD -	Unknown
398	H. Ikeuchi	JAPANESE HISTORY. Genko no shin kenyu [New investigation of the Mongol invasion].	[Tokyo]	[1931]	USD -	Unknown
399		JAPANESE MANUSCRIPTS. Sekado so hon shokei [texts from the Sung dynasty in the Seika Hall].	[Tokyo]	[1933]	USD -	Unknown
400	A. Morrison	JAPANESE PAINTERS. The Painters of Japan.	London	1911	USD -	Unknown

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December 15, 2025

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.

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Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

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