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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorBerthelot, MarcellinHeadlineBerthelot's history of early chemistryPublisherGeorges Steinheil, EditeurDate Published1885 Lot #19 Three inscribed presentation copies of offprints on articles about Jupiter by Willem de Sitter View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Astronomy)AuthorSitter, Willem deHeadline3 inscribed offprints by W. de SitterPublisherKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van WetenschappenDate Published1906-1908 Lot #35 Three works on mathematics View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Babbage, Charles)HeadlinePrize binding for UCL mathematicsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1820 Lot #37 Fables et Contes Philosophiques View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorBarbe, PhilippeHeadlineFrom the library of Louis Joseph de BourbonProvenanceFrom the library of Louis Joseph de BourbonPublisherChez DelalainDate Published1771 Lot #38 Seven French histories bound by Bayntun View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Bayntun)HeadlineSeven works on French History bound by BayntunDate Published1912-1914 Lot #42 The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBell, Sir CharlesHeadlineSir Charles Bell The Hand 1833PublisherWilliam PickeringDate Published1833 Lot #51 Songs of Innocence View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Songs of Innocence, Trianon facsimilePublisherTrianon PressDate Published1954 Lot #60 The Theory of the Earth - Books I and II View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold AuthorBurnet, ThomasHeadlineBurnet's Theory of the Earth, 1st ed. in EnglishPublisherPrinted by R. Norton for Walter KettilbyDate Published1684 Lot #62 Proxeneta, seu de prudentia civili liber View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCardano, GirolamoHeadlinePolitical treatise by Girolamo Cardano, Elzevir imprintPublisherEx Officina ElzevirianaDate Published1627 Lot #68 Officium in Epiphania Domini, et per totam octavam; juxta Missâle, & Breviárium românum... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Catholicism)Headline18th century liturgical manual, finely boundPublisherJoachim IbarraDate Published1765 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Cecil & Larkins, Bookbinders)HeadlineThe Orthodox Communicant bound by Cecil & LarkinsPublisherJ. SturtDate Published1721 Lot #70 Theoria Lunae, eius Motum per Eccentricum et Epicyclum Demonstrans View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlinePtolemaic model of lunar motion, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 Lot #71 Theoria Solis per Eccentricum sine Epicyclo View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorCellarius, AndreasHeadlineChart showing Sun's orbit around the Earth, 1661Date Publishedc.1661 Lot #84 X-Rays and Electrons [with] X-Rays in Theory and Experiment View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold 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 Lot #89 An Encyclopedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorCresy, EdwardHeadlineCresy's manual on civil engineeringPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1847 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Desargues, Gérard)AuthorKing, Daniel, translatorHeadline17th c. work on sundials owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted by Tho. LeachDate Published1659 Lot #102 Four nicely bound volumes of European history View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(European History)HeadlineNicely bound histories by Elliot and Saint-BeuvePublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published1893; 1905 Lot #107 Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Fine Bindings - Bayntun)AuthorBurney, FannyHeadlineFanny Burney's Evelina bound by BayntunPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1903 Lot #108 A Geographical History of Mammals View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorLydekker, R.HeadlineLovely prize binding from 1905PublisherAt the University PressDate Published1896 Lot #109 Anecdotes of Painting in England; With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWalpole, HoraceHeadlineAnecdotes of Painting 1828PublisherPrinted at the Shakespeare Press by W. Nicol, for John MajorDate Published1828 Lot #110 Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Fore-Edge Paintings)AuthorTupper, Martin FarquharHeadlineFore-edge painting of Radcliffe Library, OxfordPublisherT. HatchardDate Published1851 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold 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 Lot #156 An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorKeill, JohnHeadlineKeill's Introduction to Astronomy, 1721PublisherPrinted for Bernard LintotDate Published1721 Lot #164 The System of the World View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorLaplace, P. S.HeadlineThe System of the World by Laplace 1809ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for Richard PhillipsDate Published1809 Lot #173 The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineGeological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManPublisherGeorge W. ChildsDate Published1863 Lot #175 An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of the Past and Present Effects of Human Happiness View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorMalthus, T.R.HeadlineRevised classic of global population growthPublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1807-1817 Lot #181 Clinical Illustrations of the More Important Diseases of Bengal View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Medicine)AuthorTwining, WilliamHeadlineTwining's Diseases of Bengal, 1832PublisherBaptist Mission PressDate Published1832 Lot #198 Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Heading(Morgan, J. Pierpont)AuthorWilliamson, George Charles, compilerHeadlineJ.P. Morgan's jewels & art on Japanese vellum 1/40PublisherPrivately Printed at the Chiswick PressDate Published1910 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorParkinson, JamesHeadlinePaleontology by identifier of Parkinson's diseaseProvenanceCharles Atwood Kofoid (bookplate); Professor George Starr CollectionPublisherC. Whittingham et alDate Published1804 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 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold AuthorPauling, LinusHeadlineLinus Pauling 1931 offprint signed and inscribedPublisherJournal of the American Chemical SocietyDate Published1931 Lot #215 Eight issues of Philosophical Transactions View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1665-1667 Lot #216 An Introduction to Electricity. In Six Sections View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Physics)AuthorFerguson, JamesHeadlineJames Ferguson Intro to Electricity 3rdPublisherPrinted for W. Strahan, and T. CadellDate Published1778 Lot #217 Le Diadème de Flore View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Picard, Françoise, bookbinder)AuthorD'Houville, GérardHeadlineHandsome hand-binding by Françoise PicardPublisherSociété d'Édition "Le Livre"Date Published1928 Lot #218 The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus of Plato View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Plato)AuthorTaylor, Thomas, translatorHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 Lot #219 C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolarum libri X View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$375StatusSold AuthorPliny the YoungerHeadlineLetters of Pliny the Younger, finely boundPublisherSumptibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. SammellsDate Published1790 Lot #229 The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Riviere and Son)AuthorTennyson, Alfred LordHeadlineTennyson's poems finely bound by Riviere and SonPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1905 Lot #232 Psychodiagnostik/Psychodiagnostics, Tafeln - Tables [with] The Rorschach Technique View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorRorschach, Hermann; Klopfer, Bruno and Douglas McGlashen KelleyHeadlineRorschach test inkblot cards, 1921PublisherHans Huber; World Book CompanyDate Published[1921]; 1946 Lot #234 Portraits of the Eighteenth Century Historic and Literary View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorSaint-Beuve, C.A.HeadlinePortraits of the 18th century, nicely boundPublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker PressDate Published1905 Lot #270 Original printed leaf from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, with full-page anatomical woodcut View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorVesaliusHeadlineVesalius leaf with skeleton & musculaturePublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 Lot #278 La Gondola: A Tre Remi Passatempo Carnivalesco View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Zaehnsdorf)AuthorBrusoni, GirolamoHeadlineFinely bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherFrancesco StortiDate Published1662 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next