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Christie's - East December 12, 2000 Sale Catalog

Currency:USD Category:Books / Catalogs Start Price:35.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
Christie's - East December 12, 2000 Sale Catalog
Sale order:

SESSION 1:

Books: 1 to 467
Auction Catalogs & Dealer Fixed Pricelists: 468 to 734

SESSION 2:

Auction Catalogs & Dealer Fixed Pricelists: 735 to 1267
Journals & Magazines: 1268 to 1345
Posters: 1346
Newspapers: Lot 1347
Photos: 1348 to 1349
Postcards: 1350 to 1351
VHS Tapes: 1352 to 1354
DVDs: 1355

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Christie's - East. THE DRISCOLL PIRACY COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT THE WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY. December 12, 2000. 4to. 1-206 Lots. Original pictorial card covers. Public Auction Sale. Sale No. 8475. New York. 73 Pages. color photos throughout. Fine. This auction sale catalog includes pirate and treasure related literature, documents, broadsides, and maps that are from the collection of author Charles E. Driscoll. In 1951, a respectable newspaperman from Wichita passed away and sold his collection of books to the Wichita Public Library for the sum of $10,000. His name was Charles B. Driscoll, and he was a popular Midwestern columnist, who later corresponded from New York, in the expansively syndicated column 'New York By Day'. Driscoll's contribution to the library in Wichita was one of the more impressive libraries on the subject of pirates ever amassed. This sale includes 206 rare printed books, manuscripts, prints and drawings from this collection, one of the largest ever put together. Lot weight: 0 lbs 11oz. Subject(s): Pirate, Treasure Literature.