Sale 838: Rare & Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts: Selections from the Professor George Starr Collection (with additions) – Part 2 - Children's Illustration & Literature (#838) 05/15/2025 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 05/15/2025 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 838 714 PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #7 Les Origines de L'Alchimie Heading(Alchemy)AuthorBerthelot, MarcellinHeadlineBerthelot's history of early chemistryPublisherGeorges Steinheil, EditeurDate Published1885 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #19 Three inscribed presentation copies of offprints on articles about Jupiter by Willem de Sitter Heading(Astronomy)AuthorSitter, Willem deHeadline3 inscribed offprints by W. de SitterPublisherKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van WetenschappenDate Published1906-1908 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #35 Three works on mathematics Heading(Babbage, Charles)HeadlinePrize binding for UCL mathematicsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1820 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #37 Fables et Contes Philosophiques AuthorBarbe, PhilippeHeadlineFrom the library of Louis Joseph de BourbonProvenanceFrom the library of Louis Joseph de BourbonPublisherChez DelalainDate Published1771 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #38 Seven French histories bound by Bayntun Heading(Bayntun)HeadlineSeven works on French History bound by BayntunDate Published1912-1914 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #42 The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design AuthorBell, Sir CharlesHeadlineSir Charles Bell The Hand 1833PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1833 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #51 Songs of Innocence AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Songs of Innocence, Trianon facsimilePublisherTrianon PressDate Published1954 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Theory of the Earth - Books I and II AuthorBurnet, ThomasHeadlineBurnet's Theory of the Earth, 1st ed. in EnglishPublisherPrinted by R. Norton for Walter KettilbyDate Published1684 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #62 Proxeneta, seu de prudentia civili liber AuthorCardano, GirolamoHeadlinePolitical treatise by Girolamo Cardano, Elzevir imprintPublisherEx Officina ElzevirianaDate Published1627 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #68 Officium in Epiphania Domini, et per totam octavam; juxta Missâle, & Breviárium românum... Heading(Catholicism)Headline18th century liturgical manual, finely boundPublisherJoachim IbarraDate Published1765 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #69 The Orthodox Communicant, By Way of Meditation on the Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion; According to the Liturgy of the Church of England Heading(Cecil & Larkins, Bookbinders)HeadlineThe Orthodox Communicant bound by Cecil & LarkinsPublisherJ. SturtDate Published1721 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #70 Theoria Lunae, eius Motum per Eccentricum et Epicyclum Demonstrans AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlinePtolemaic model of lunar motion, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 Theoria Solis per Eccentricum sine Epicyclo AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlineChart showing Sun's orbit around the Earth, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #84 X-Rays and Electrons [with] X-Rays in Theory and Experiment AuthorCompton, Arthur Holly and Samuel K. AllisonHeadlineArthur Compton's 1st book owned by David WebsterProvenanceProfessor David L. Webster; Professor George Starr CollectionPublisherD. Van Nostrand CompanyDate Published1926-1935 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #89 An Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical AuthorCresy, EdwardHeadlineCresy's manual on civil engineeringPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1847 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #92 Mr. De Sargues Universal Way of Dyaling. Or Plain and Easie Directions for Placing the Axeltree, and Marking the Hours in Sun-dyals, after the French, Italian, Babylonian, and Jewish Manner... Heading(Desargues, Gérard)AuthorKing, Daniel, translatorHeadline17th c. work on sundials owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted by Tho. LeachDate Published1659 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #102 Four nicely bound volumes of European history Heading(European History)HeadlineNicely bound histories by Elliot and Saint-BeuvePublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published1893; 1905 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #107 Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Heading(Fine Bindings - Bayntun)AuthorBurney, FannyHeadlineFanny Burney's Evelina bound by BayntunPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #108 A Geographical History of Mammals Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorLydekker, R.HeadlineLovely prize binding from 1905PublisherAt the University PressDate Published1896 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #109 Anecdotes of Painting in England; With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts... Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWalpole, HoraceHeadlineAnecdotes of Painting 1828PublisherPrinted at the Shakespeare Press by W. Nicol, for John MajorDate Published1828 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #110 Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorTupper, Martin FarquharHeadlineFore-edge painting of Radcliffe Library, OxfordPublisherT. HatchardDate Published1851 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #118 Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of our Lord God 1764. Being the Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorn'd with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy... Heading(George III, King of Great Britain, former owner)HeadlineFine binding from George III's libraryProvenanceFrom the library of King George IIIPublisherH. Woodfall for the Company of StationersDate Published1764 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #156 An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford AuthorKeill, JohnHeadlineKeill's Introduction to Astronomy, 1721PublisherPrinted for Bernard LintotDate Published1721 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #164 The System of the World AuthorLaplace, P. S.HeadlineThe System of the World by Laplace 1809ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for Richard PhillipsDate Published1809 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #173 The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineGeological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManPublisherGeorge W. ChildsDate Published1863 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #175 An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of the Past and Present Effects of Human Happiness AuthorMalthus, T.R.HeadlineRevised classic of global population growthPublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1807-1817 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #181 Clinical Illustrations of the More Important Diseases of Bengal Heading(Medicine)AuthorTwining, WilliamHeadlineTwining's Diseases of Bengal, 1832PublisherBaptist Mission PressDate Published1832 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #198 Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan Heading(Morgan, J. Pierpont)AuthorWilliamson, George Charles, compilerHeadlineJ.P. Morgan's jewels & art on Japanese vellum 1/40PublisherPrivately Printed at the Chiswick PressDate Published1910 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #212 Organic Remains of a Former World. Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World; Generally Termed Extraneous Fossils AuthorParkinson, JamesHeadlinePaleontology by identifier of Parkinson's diseaseProvenanceCharles Atwood Kofoid (bookplate); Professor George Starr CollectionPublisherC. Whittingham et alDate Published1804 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #213 The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Application of Results Obtained from the Quantum Mechanics and from a Theory of Paramagnetic Susceptibility to the Structure of Molecules AuthorPauling, LinusHeadlineLinus Pauling 1931 offprint signed and inscribedPublisherJournal of the American Chemical SocietyDate Published1931 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #215 Eight issues of Philosophical Transactions Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1665-1667 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #216 An Introduction to Electricity. In Six Sections Heading(Physics)AuthorFerguson, JamesHeadlineJames Ferguson Intro to Electricity 3rdPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan, and T. CadellDate Published1778 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #217 Le Diadème de Flore Heading(Picard, Françoise, bookbinder)AuthorD'Houville, GérardHeadlineHandsome hand-binding by Françoise PicardPublisherSociété d'Édition "Le Livre"Date Published1928 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #218 The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus of Plato Heading(Plato)AuthorTaylor, Thomas, translatorHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #219 C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolarum libri X AuthorPliny the YoungerHeadlineLetters of Pliny the Younger, finely boundPublisherSumptibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. SammellsDate Published1790 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #229 The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate Heading(Riviere and Son)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineTennyson's poems finely bound by Riviere and SonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1905 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #232 Psychodiagnostik/Psychodiagnostics, Tafeln - Tables [with] The Rorschach Technique AuthorRorschach, Hermann; Klopfer, Bruno and Douglas McGlashen KelleyHeadlineRorschach test inkblot cards, 1921PublisherHans Huber; World Book CompanyDate Published[1921]; 1946 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #234 Portraits of the Eighteenth Century Historic and Literary AuthorSaint-Beuve, C.A.HeadlinePortraits of the 18th century, nicely boundPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published1905 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #270 Original printed leaf from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, with full-page anatomical woodcut AuthorVesaliusHeadlineVesalius leaf with skeleton & musculaturePublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #278 La Gondola: A Tre Remi Passatempo Carnivalesco Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorBrusoni, GirolamoHeadlineFinely bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherFrancesco StortiDate Published1662 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next