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Christie's - East: The Driscoll Piracy Collection Sold to Benefit the Wichita Public Library

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Christie's - East: The Driscoll Piracy Collection Sold to Benefit the Wichita Public Library
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Christie's - East. THE DRISCOLL PIRACY COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT THE WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY. December 12, 2000. 1-206 lots. 4to. 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. New York. original pictorial card covers. 74 pages. color illustrations. PRL. Fine. Lot weight: 0 lbs 11oz. Subject(s): Pirate, Treasure Literature.