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
401	F. C. Wilson and J. F. G. Brumond	JAVANESE ARCHITECTURE. Boro-Boedoer op het Eiland Java.	Leiden	[1874]	USD -	Unknown
402		JAVANESE COSTUMES. A Series of 31 colored lithograph plates by C. W. Mieling after designs by A. v ...			USD -	Unknown
403	JEFFERSON, T.	Works.	New York	1904-05	USD -	Unknown
404	JERROLD, D.	The Story of a Feather.	London	1867	USD -	Unknown
405		JOURNAL TO STELLA (Swift), 2 vols., Oxford, 1948; The Life of George Cruikshank (Jerrold), 2 vols ...			USD -	Unknown
406	JOYCE, J.	Haveth Childers Everywhere.	Paris and New York	1930	USD -	Unknown
407	JOYCE, J.	Chamber Music.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
408	JOYCE, J.	Two Tales of Shem and Shaun.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
409	JOYCE, J.	Anna Livia Plurabelle, N. Y., 1928; one of 800 copies, signed by the author; Ulysses, Paris, 1924 ...			USD -	Unknown
410		JUNIUS. [Letters.]	London	1801	USD -	Unknown
411	KEATS, J.	Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne written in the Years MDCCCIX and MDCCCXX.	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
412	G. Cavendish	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Life of Thomas Wolsey.	Hammersmith	1892	USD -	Unknown
413	KING, CAPT. C.	The Fifth Cavalry in the Sioux War of 1876.	Milwaukee, Wis.	1880	USD -	Unknown
414	[T. Oba and K. Mayamoto]	KOREAN ANTIQUITIES. The Tomb of Wang Kuang of Lo-Lang.	Seoul	1935	USD -	Unknown
415	[LACROIX, P.]	Une Femme Malheureuse, Fille-Femme.	Paris	1836	USD -	Unknown
416	LAMB, C. and C. LLOYD	Blank Verse.	London	1798	USD -	Unknown
417	LAMB, C.	The Adventures of Ulysses.	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
418	[LAMB, C.]	Original Letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff.	Philadelphia	1813	USD -	Unknown
419	[LAMB, C. and M.]	Poetry For Children, Entirely Original.	Boston	1812	USD -	Unknown
420	LANG, A.	The Strife of Love in a Dream: Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the ...	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
421		L'ART DE LA PERSE ANCIENNE (Sarre), Paris, n.d.; The Later Work of Titian (Phillips), Lond., 1898 ...			USD -	Unknown
422	Edited in America by J. S. Mangan, in France by Virgil Thomson	LARUS, the Celestial Visitor; with which has been combined Tempo.	[Lynn, Massachusetts]	[1927-28]	USD -	Unknown
423	L. Carroll	[LAURENCIN, M.] Alice in Wonderland.	Paris	1930	USD -	Unknown
424	LAVATER, J. C.	Essays on Physiognomy. Portraits (foxed), and text illustrations.	London	1789	USD -	Unknown
425	LAWRENCE, D. H.	Sun, Lond., 1926; one of 100 copies; The Virgin and the Gipsy, Florence, 1930, Limited Edition ...			USD -	Unknown
426	W. P. Frith	[LEECH, J.] John Leech, his Life and Work.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
427	LE SAGE, A. R.	Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.	Paris	1879	USD -	Unknown
428		LHASA (Landon, 2 vols., Lond., 1905; Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia (Chodzko), Lond ...			USD -	Unknown
429		LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER PORCUPINE (Cobbett), Lond.: Nonesuch Press, 1927, Limited Edition; The ...			USD -	Unknown
430		LIFE OF BARTOLOMEO COLLEONI, of Anjou and Burgundy (Browning) n.p., 1891. Both works illustrated.			USD -	Unknown
431		LIFE OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (By himself), Lond., 1792; The Ancient Painted Glass Windows ...			USD -	Unknown
432	R. Pigot	LIFE OF MAN, THE. Symbolized by the Months of the Year . . . with Passages selected from Ancient and ...	London	1866	USD -	Unknown
433		LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, THE (Prior), 2 vols., 1837; The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
434		LIMITED EDITIONS. Micro-Cosmographie (Earle) [Waltham Saint Lawrence:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1928 ...			USD -	Unknown
435	L. C. Wood, ed.	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. A History of the Printed Book.	New York	1838	USD -	Unknown
436		LINCOLN BROADSIDE. Black Republican Prayer.		[1864]	USD -	Unknown
437	I. N. Arnold	[LINCOLN. A.] The Life of Abraham Lincoln.	Chicago	1885	USD -	Unknown
438	[LINCOLN, A.]	Abraham Lincoln Toni Kin, Aesop Tawoyake Kin. Life of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop's Fables.	Santee Agency, Neb.	1893	USD -	Unknown
439	[W. Irving]	[LIND, J.] The Sketch Book.	New York	1848	USD -	Unknown
440	LOCKHART, J. G.	Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.	Boston	1902	USD -	Unknown
441	[LONGFELLOW, H. W.]	Outre-Mer; A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea. No. I, Boston: Hilliard, Gray, & Co., 1833; Outre-Mer; A ...	Boston	1833-34	USD -	Unknown
442	LONGFELLOW, H. W.	The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems.	Cambridge	1846	USD -	Unknown
443	LONGFELLOW, H. W.	The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems.	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
444	LONGFELLOW, H. W.	Keremos.	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
445	[LONGFELLOW, H. W.]	From My Arm-Chair.	[Cambridge]	[1879]	USD -	Unknown
446		LOUVRE, THE. . . . Musees Nationaux Francais.	Paris	1919-21	USD -	Unknown
447	LOWELL, A.	John Keats, 2 vols., Lond., n.d.; Men, Women and Ghosts, Bost., n.d.; Can Grande's Castle, Oxford ...			USD -	Unknown
448	Nicholas Rowe	LUCAN. Pharsalia. Translated into English Verse.	London	1718	USD -	Unknown
449		LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura.	Cambridge	1864	USD -	Unknown
450	MACLAY, E. S.	A History of the United States Navy, from 1775 to 1894.	New York	1897	USD -	Unknown
451	MACLEISH, A.	Tower of Ivory, New Haven, 1917; The Pot of Earth, Bost., 1925; The Happy Marriage and Other Poems ...			USD -	Unknown
452		MANUSCRIPT ALBUM. Album of poetry and some prose.	England	XIX Century	USD -	Unknown
453		MANUSCRIPT IN DUTCH.			USD -	Unknown
454		MANUSCRIPT IN ENGLISH, entitled Observations on the Land Revenue.	England	XVIII Century	USD -	Unknown
455		MANUSCRIPT IN ENGLISH. Saint George and Saint Denys.	England	Early XIX Century	USD -	Unknown
456		MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN. Manuscript engrossed in Latin on 274 leaves, all but a few are on paper, the ...	Germany	XV Century	USD -	Unknown
457		MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN AND GERMAN. Engrossed on paper with several drawings in pen-and-ink.	Germany (?)	Early XVII Century	USD -	Unknown
458		MANUSCRIPT IN PERSIAN. [The Shah Namah of Firdausi.]			USD -	Unknown
459		MAPS. A collection of 40 maps mostly of America and the Western Hemisphere.			USD -	Unknown
460	MARCO POLO	The Book of Ser Marco Polo . . .	London	1926	USD -	Unknown
461		MARIUS THE EPICUREAN (Pater), 2 vols., Lond., 1885; The History of King Arthur (Malory), 3 vols ...			USD -	Unknown
462	MASPERO, G. and others	History of Egypt.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
463		MASQUE OF SHADOWS and Other Poems (Payne), Lond., 1870; Defence of Poetry (Sydney), Lond., 1787 ...			USD -	Unknown
464		MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE, its Origins and Development (Porter), 2 vols., New Haven, 1912; The Cathedral ...			USD -	Unknown
465	MEISSONIER, J. L. E.	[Sales Catalogue.] Catalogue des Tableaux, Etudes, Peintes, Aquarelles et Dessins.	[Paris]	[1893]	USD -	Unknown
466	MELLERIO, A.	Odilon Redon.	Paris	1913	USD -	Unknown
467	MELVILLE, H.	Pierre; or, The Ambiguities.	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
468		MEMOIRES (Cellini), 2 vols., Paris, 1919; Durer (Moore), London, 1905; A Medieval Garner (Coulton ...			USD -	Unknown
469		MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD (Walpole), 4 vols., Lond., 1845; The Odes of Horace, 4 ...			USD -	Unknown
470	R. De Cardenas	MEXICO. Consulta, Q[ue] se hizo por Parto de el Convento de la Puebla de esta Nueva Espana, de el ...	Mexico	1650	USD -	Unknown
471	J. A. Symonds	[MICHELANGELO.] The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
472	MICKLE, W. J.	The Lusiad; or the Discovery of India: an Epic Poem.	London	1809	USD -	Unknown
473	MILLAIS, J. G.	A Breath from the Veldt.	London	1895	USD -	Unknown
474	MILTON, J.	Paradise Regaind. A Poem In IV Books.	London	1671	USD -	Unknown
475	MILTON, J.	Paradise Lost, portrait, 1678, Third Edition; Paradise Regain'd, 1680, Second Edition.	London	1678-80	USD -	Unknown
476		MINIATURE BOOKS. Les Fleurettes. 1836. Cuts. [Paris] 1836; The Sun (H. Crosby), Paris: Black Sun ...			USD -	Unknown
477	B. S. Long	MINIATURES. British Miniaturists.	London	1929	USD -	Unknown
478		MITTELALTERLICHE PLASTIK IN SPANISH (Mayer), Munchen, n.d.; The Earlier Work of Titian (Phillips ...			USD -	Unknown
479		MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS (Gordon), Lond., n.d.; Paul Man-ship, Sculpteur Americain (Vitry), Paris ...			USD -	Unknown
480	MOE, L.	Colored illustrations for Romulus and Remus, signed, 1908.		1908	USD -	Unknown
481	MOLIERE, J. B. P.	Works, French and English.	London	1739	USD -	Unknown
482	MONTAIGNE, M. DE.	Essays written in French . . . done into English, according to the last French edition, by John ...	London	1613	USD -	Unknown
483	MONTAIGNE, M. DE.	Essays. Translated by C. Cotton . . .	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
484	MOORE, T.	Lalla Rookh.	London	1861	USD -	Unknown
485	Rev. T. F. Dibdin	MORE, SIR T. A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work . . . called Utopia . . . with copious Notes ...	London	1808	USD -	Unknown
486	MORRIS, W. and E. MAGNUSSON	The Saga Library.	London	1891	USD -	Unknown
487	MORYSON, F.	An Itinerary written by Fynes Moryson Gent.	London	1617	USD -	Unknown
488	MUNTZ, E.	Raphael: sa Vie, son Oeuvre et son Temps.	Paris	1900	USD -	Unknown
489		MUSES' LIBRARY, THE. Poem (Keats), 2 vols., 1896; Poems (Donne), 2 vols., 1901; Works (Herrick), 2 ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
490	NAPOLEON I.	Duchess D'Abrantes. Memoirs of Napoleon, his Court and Family.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
491		NAPOLEONIC MEMOIRS.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
492	H. L. Bullen	NASH PRINTING. The Nuremberg Chronicle. Cuts.	San Francisco	1930	USD -	Unknown
493	NASHE, T.	Works. Edited from the Original Texts by Ronald B. McKerrow.	London	1910	USD -	Unknown
494	M. De Montaigne	NONESUCH PRESS. Essays. John Florio's Translation.	London	1921	USD -	Unknown
495	J. Thomson	NONESUCH PRESS. The Seasons.	London	1927	USD -	Unknown
496		NONESUCH PRESS. Dante. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian ...	[London]	1928	USD -	Unknown
497		NONESUCH PRESS. Dante. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian ...	[London]	1928	USD -	Unknown
498	I. Walton	NONESUCH PRESS. The Complete Angler, the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert & Sanderson. . . .	Bloomsbury	1929	USD -	Unknown
499	W. Shakespeare	NONESUCH PRESS. Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of Modern ...	New York	1929-33	USD -	Unknown
500		OISEAUX DE SPORT, LES (Pichot), Paris, 1903; Heraldry Simplified (Copinger), Manchester, 1910; A ...			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.

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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.

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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.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

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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.

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