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
501	P. Houo-Ming-Tse.	ORIENTAL ANTIQUITIES. Preuves des Antiquites de Chine.	Pekin	1930	USD -	Unknown
502	P. Pelliot	ORIENTAL ART. Les Grottes de Touen-Houang.	Paris	1920	USD -	Unknown
503		ORIENTAL FORERUNNERS OF BYZANTINE PAINTING (Breasted), Chic, n.d.; Three Essays in Method (Berenson ...			USD -	Unknown
504		ORIENTAL FORERUNNERS OF BYZANTINE PAINTING (Breasted), Chic, n.d.; Three Essays in Method (Berenson ...			USD -	Unknown
505		ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT.	Siam	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
506		OVID. Metamorphoses . . . D'apres le texte de l'edition du P. Jouvency.	Paris	[1798]	USD -	Unknown
507		PABLO PICASSO, A. (Eluard), Geneve-Paris, n.d.; Les Tissus Indiens du Vieux Perou (d'Harcourt), n.p ...			USD -	Unknown
508	G. Vasari	PAINTERS, etc. Lives of the most eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
509		PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.	New York	1903-05	USD -	Unknown
510		PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
511	W. Bode and M. J. Friedlander	PAINTINGS. Gemalde alter Meister im Besitze seiner Majestat des Deutschen Kaisers und Konigs von ...	Berlin	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
512	M. Rooses	PAINTINGS. Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Peinture de 1400 a 1800.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
513		PAINTINGS. Sales catalogues of collections sold in Paris: Secretan Collection, vol. 2, July, 1889 ...			USD -	Unknown
514	P. Kristeller	PAINTINGS. Andrea Mantegna. English Edition by S. A. Strong.	London	1901	USD -	Unknown
515	G. S. Davies	PAINTINGS. Hans Holbein the Younger.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
516	D. C. Rich	PAINTINGS, Etc. Catalogue of the C. H. and M. F. S.	Chicago	1938	USD -	Unknown
517		PAINTINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. Pintoricchio (Bernardino di Betto of Perugia), his Life, Work, and Times ...			USD -	Unknown
518	PANVINIUS, O.	De ludis circensibus, Libri II. De Triumphis . . .	Patavii	1642	USD -	Unknown
519	PATER, W.	Works.	London	1914-17	USD -	Unknown
520	PENNELL, E. R.	The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell.			USD -	Unknown
521	PEPYS, S.	DIARY . . . With Lord Braybooke's Notes.	London	1893-99	USD -	Unknown
522		PETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (Gluck), Paris, n.d.; Decoration Egeenne (Oule), Paris, n.d.; Some Greek ...			USD -	Unknown
523	PETTIGREW, T. J.	A History of Egyptian Mummies, 13 plates, 10 of which are by G. Cruikshank, a few in color; some ...	London	1834	USD -	Unknown
524		PHOENIXIANA (Derby), 2 vols., Chi.: Caxton Club, 1897; A New Chronicle of the Complete Angler ( ...			USD -	Unknown
525		PICASSO (Raynal), Paris, 1922; Egyptian Mythology (Muller), Bost., 1923; Gutenberg to Plantin ( ...			USD -	Unknown
526		PICKWICK PAPERS (Dickens), illustrations by Seymour and Phiz; some foxed. Lond., 1837; First Edition ...			USD -	Unknown
527		PILGRIM'S PROGRESS (Bunyan), illustrations after G. Cruikshank, 1903; First Edition with these ...	London	1903[-27]	USD -	Unknown
528		PLUTARCH. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes . . . and out of French into English, by T ...	Stratford-upon-Avon	1928	USD -	Unknown
529	POE, E. A.	Works. Edited by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry.	New York	1914	USD -	Unknown
530		POEMS AND BALLADS, First Series (Swinburne), Lond., 1922; A.L.S. by Burne-Jones laid in; Faerie ...			USD -	Unknown
531		POETICAL WORKS (Milton), 3 vols., 1851; Aldine Edition; Poems (Tennyson), 2 vols., 1842; first ...	London	1842-51	USD -	Unknown
532		POETRY AND PROSE (Keats), ed. by H. B. Forman, Lond., 1890; The Bab Ballads (Gilbert), Lond., n.d ...			USD -	Unknown
533		POLITICAL CARTOONS. A collection of nineteen satirical lithographs mostly of the Jackson and Van ...			USD -	Unknown
534		PONTANI OPERA, two vols. in 1 [Venetiis, 1533-1518]; Histoire des Livres Populaires ou de la ...			USD -	Unknown
535	[POPE, A.]	An Essay on Man.	London	[1733]	USD -	Unknown
536	POPE, A.	The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Engraving folding portrait by Vertue in Vol. 1, engraved title ...	London	1717-38 [i.e., 1739]	USD -	Unknown
537	[POPE, A.]	An Essay on Man Epistle I [-IV].	[London]	[1733]	USD -	Unknown
538	POPE, A.	An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington, 1731; An Epistle from Mr. Ope, to Dr ...	London	1731[-38]	USD -	Unknown
539	POPE, A.	One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something like Horace.	London	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
540	W. King	PORCELAIN. Chelsea Porcelain.	New York	1922	USD -	Unknown
541	J. Marryat	POTTERY. A History of Pottery and Porcelain, Mediaeval and Modern.	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
542	POUND, E.	A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 of Ezra Pound.	London	1928	USD -	Unknown
543	POUND, E.	Exultations, Lond., 1909; Personae, Lond., 1909; Can-zoni, 1911; Lustra [Lond., 1916], one of 200 ...			USD -	Unknown
544		PRE-HISTORIC TIMES (Lubbock), Lond., 1890; The Children of the Sun (Perry, Lon., n.d.; Amurath to ...			USD -	Unknown
545		PRESS PUBLICATIONS. The Book of the Bear (Harrison and Mirrless), London: Nonesuch Press, 1926 ...			USD -	Unknown
546		PRESS PUBLICATIONS. Poems (Charles, Duke of Orleans). London: Shakspeare Press, 1827; inscription by ...			USD -	Unknown
547	J. Johnson	PRINTING. Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor.	London	1824	USD -	Unknown
548	T. B. Reed	PRINTING. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical ...	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
549		PRINTING. Early Venetian Printing Illustrated.	Venice	1895	USD -	Unknown
550	A. Warren	PRINTING. The Charles Whittinghams Printers.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
551	L. C. Wroth	PRINTING. A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686-1776.	Baltimore	1922	USD -	Unknown
552	L. C. Wroth	PRINTING. The Colonial Printer.	Portland	1938	USD -	Unknown
553	W. H. Willshire	PRINTS. An Introduction to the Study & Collection of Ancient Prints.	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
554	[PRIOR, M.]	Poems on Several Occasions.	London	1709	USD -	Unknown
555		QUILLER-COUCH, A. T. Historical Tales from Shakespeare, Lond., 1899; A Flowery Garland, n.p., 1899 ...			USD -	Unknown
556	J. M. Barrie	RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
557		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Undine (Fouque), 1909; Aesop's Fables, 1912. Both works illustrated in color ...	London	1909-12	USD -	Unknown
558		RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. Comus (Milton) [1921]; one of 550 copies, signed by the artist; Peter Pan in ...	London	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
559		RACKHAM AND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS. Fair Tales (Brothers Grimm), illustrated by Arthur Rackham in color ...			USD -	Unknown
560	RALEIGH, SIR W.	The History of the World, in Five Books.	London	1677	USD -	Unknown
561	Baron Munchausen	[RASPE, R. E.] Gulliver Revived; Containing Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Adventures, in ...	New York	1797	USD -	Unknown
562	READE, C.	Peg Woffington.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
563		RED BADGE OF COURAGE (Crane), [1931]; one of 980 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press; The ...	New York	v.d.	USD -	Unknown
564	REMINGTON, F.	The Way of an Indian.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
565	REVERE, P.	Col. Benjamin Church.			USD -	Unknown
566	REYNOLDS, F.	The Dramatist: or, Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent- ...	London	1793	USD -	Unknown
567	[RICHARDSON, S.]	Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady . . . Published by the Editor of Pamela.	London	1748	USD -	Unknown
568	RICHARDSON, S.	The History of Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, portrait; margin slightly defective, N. Y., 1798; The ...			USD -	Unknown
569	[RIDLEY, J.]	The Tales of the Genii.	London	1805	USD -	Unknown
570		RITSON, j. Scottish Songs, 2 vols., Glasgow, 1869; Letters, 2 vols., Lond., 1833; Ancient Songs ...			USD -	Unknown
571	ROBINSON, H. C.	Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
572	ROBINSON, H. C.	Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence.	London	1869	USD -	Unknown
573	J. Cladel	[RODIN, A.] Auguste Rodin, l'Oeuvre et l'Homme.	Bruxelles	1908	USD -	Unknown
574	M. De Montaigne	[ROGERS, B.] Essays . . . done into English by John Florio.			USD -	Unknown
575	ROGERS, S.	Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers.	London	1850	USD -	Unknown
576	ROLLAND, R.	Jean-Christophe.	Paris	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
577	H. Revoil	ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. Architecture Romane du Midi de la France.	Paris	1874	USD -	Unknown
578	ROOSEVELT, T.	Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.	New York	1885	USD -	Unknown
579	ROOSEVELT, T.	The Wilderness Hunter.	New York	[1893]	USD -	Unknown
580	ROSCOE, T.	Italian Novelists.	London	1825	USD -	Unknown
581	ROSSETTI, D. G.	Poems.	London	1870	USD -	Unknown
582		ROWLANDSON COLORED PLATES. Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France.	London	1821	USD -	Unknown
583		ROYAL BINDING. Les Statuts de l'Ordre du St. Esprit estably par Henry IIIme du Nom Roy de France.	[Paris:]	1788	USD -	Unknown
584	RUSKIN, J.	The Stones of Venice.	London	1851-53	USD -	Unknown
585	RUSKIN, J.	Sesame and Lilies.	London	1906	USD -	Unknown
586		SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, THE.	Oxford	1879-1910	USD -	Unknown
587		SALLUST. La Conjuracion de Catilina y la Guerra de Jugurta por Cayo Salustio Crispo.	[En Madrid]	[1772]	USD -	Unknown
588	SCHILLER, F. VON.	Poesies.	Paris	1859-62	USD -	Unknown
589	SCHNITZLER, A.	Couples. Ten Dialogues rendered from the German by Lily Wolfe and E. W. Titus.	Paris	1927	USD -	Unknown
590	[SCOTT, SIR W.]	The Abbot.	Edinburgh	1820	USD -	Unknown
591	[SCOTT, SIR W.]	Tales of My Landlord.	Edinburgh	1832	USD -	Unknown
592	[SCOTT, SIR W.--J. G. Lockhart]	Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.	Edinburgh	1837-38	USD -	Unknown
593		SCOTT, SIR W. Waverley, 48 vols., Edin., 1929-33; Poetical Works, 12 vols., Edin., 1833-34; Memoirs ...			USD -	Unknown
594	C. C. Perkins	SCULPTURE. Italian Sculptors: being a History of Sculpture in Northern, Southern and Eastern Italy.	London	1868	USD -	Unknown
595		SCULPTURE HINDOUE (Cohn), Paris, n.d.; James McNeill Whistler (Pennell), Paris, 1913; La Sculpture ...			USD -	Unknown
596		SELECTED POEMS (Thompson), Lond., n.d.; Ulick and Soracha (Moore), N. Y., 1926; limited issue ...			USD -	Unknown
597	P. Clemens, and others	SELIGMANN COLLECTION. Die Sammlung Dr. Leopold Seligmann, Koln.	Berlin	[1930]	USD -	Unknown
598		SERPENT-WORSHIP, and other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism (Wake), Lond., 1888; Of Bodies, and of ...			USD -	Unknown
599		SEURAT (Cousturier), n.p., n.d.; Au Royaume de la Perle (Rosenthal), Paris, n.d.; Eloges (Perse ...			USD -	Unknown
600	SHAKESPEARE, W.	Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy.	London	1705	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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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $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.

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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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