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

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35
  • Heading
    (Babbage, Charles)
  • Headline
    Prize binding for UCL mathematics
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Date Published
    1820
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
37
  • Author
    Barbe, Philippe
  • Headline
    From the library of Louis Joseph de Bourbon
  • Provenance
    From the library of Louis Joseph de Bourbon
  • Publisher
    Chez Delalain
  • Date Published
    1771
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
38
  • Heading
    (Bayntun)
  • Headline
    Seven works on French History bound by Bayntun
  • Date Published
    1912-1914
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$375
StatusSold
47
  • Heading
    (Bible in French)
  • Author
    [Lemaistre de Sacy, Louis-Isaac]
  • Headline
    De Sacy's Acts in Jansenist binding, 1700
  • Publisher
    Guillaume Desprez
  • Date Published
    1700
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
51
  • Author
    Blake, William
  • Headline
    Blake's Songs of Innocence, Trianon facsimile
  • Publisher
    Trianon Press
  • Date Published
    1954
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
60
  • Author
    Burnet, Thomas
  • Headline
    Burnet's Theory of the Earth, 1st ed. in English
  • Publisher
    Printed by R. Norton for Walter Kettilby
  • Date Published
    1684
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
62
  • Author
    Cardano, Girolamo
  • Headline
    Political treatise by Girolamo Cardano, Elzevir imprint
  • Publisher
    Ex Officina Elzeviriana
  • Date Published
    1627
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
67
  • Heading
    (Catholicism - Last Rites)
  • Headline
    Rules and Instructions for the Viaticum
  • Publisher
    Nella Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apost.
  • Date Published
    1758
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
68
  • Heading
    (Catholicism)
  • Headline
    18th century liturgical manual, finely bound
  • Publisher
    Joachim Ibarra
  • Date Published
    1765
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
69
  • Heading
    (Cecil & Larkins, Bookbinders)
  • Headline
    The Orthodox Communicant bound by Cecil & Larkins
  • Publisher
    J. Sturt
  • Date Published
    1721
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
79
  • Heading
    (China)
  • Headline
    First English journal pub. in Sichuan, 1922-37
  • Publisher
    Canadian Methodist Mission Press
  • Date Published
    1922-1945
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,500
StatusSold
81
  • Heading
    (Christianity)
  • Headline
    Two early 18th c. religious works
  • Date Published
    1700-1725
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
97
  • Author
    Edmundson, William
  • Headline
    On the founder of Quakers in Ireland, 1715
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Printed by Samuel Fairbrother
  • Date Published
    1715
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
102
  • Heading
    (European History)
  • Headline
    Nicely bound histories by Elliot and Saint-Beuve
  • Publisher
    G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press
  • Date Published
    1893; 1905
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
103
  • Author
    Fabricius, Johann Albert
  • Headline
    Fabricius, Latin Library, Padua 1754
  • Publisher
    Apud Joannem Manfre
  • Date Published
    1754
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
107
  • Heading
    (Fine Bindings - Bayntun)
  • Author
    Burney, Fanny
  • Headline
    Fanny Burney's Evelina bound by Bayntun
  • Publisher
    Macmillan and Co.
  • Date Published
    1903
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
108
  • Heading
    (Fine Bindings)
  • Author
    Lydekker, R.
  • Headline
    Lovely prize binding from 1905
  • Publisher
    At the University Press
  • Date Published
    1896
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
109
  • Heading
    (Fine Bindings)
  • Author
    Walpole, Horace
  • Headline
    Anecdotes of Painting 1828
  • Publisher
    Printed at the Shakespeare Press by W. Nicol, for John Major
  • Date Published
    1828
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
110
  • Heading
    (Fore-Edge Paintings)
  • Author
    Tupper, Martin Farquhar
  • Headline
    Fore-edge painting of Radcliffe Library, Oxford
  • Publisher
    T. Hatchard
  • Date Published
    1851
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$1,062.50
StatusSold
113
  • Heading
    (Freemasonry)
  • Headline
    Two vols of Freemason rituals w/ vellum membership cert
  • Publisher
    G. Bradshaw
  • Date Published
    c.1847
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$200
StatusSold
118
  • Heading
    (George III, King of Great Britain, former owner)
  • Headline
    Fine binding from George III's library
  • Provenance
    From the library of King George III
  • Publisher
    H. Woodfall for the Company of Stationers
  • Date Published
    1764
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$1,875
StatusSold
145
  • Heading
    (Incunabula)
  • Author
    Higden, Ranulf
  • Headline
    Incunable Wynkyn de Worde leaf, 1498
  • Publisher
    By me Wynken de Worde
  • Date Published
    1498
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
198
  • Heading
    (Morgan, J. Pierpont)
  • Author
    Williamson, George Charles, compiler
  • Headline
    J.P. Morgan's jewels & art on Japanese vellum 1/40
  • Publisher
    Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press
  • Date Published
    1910
Estimate$20,000 - $30,000
StatusUnsold
199
  • Heading
    (Mormon)
  • Author
    Marks, David
  • Headline
    Early anti-Mormon account
  • Publisher
    Printed at the Office of the Morning Star
  • Date Published
    1831
Estimate$700 - $1,000
Sold for$468.75
StatusSold
200
  • Heading
    (Mormon)
  • Author
    [Ward, Maria]
  • Headline
    Anti-Mormon polygamy account in Hungarian, 1858
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Geibel Ármin bizománya
  • Date Published
    1858
Estimate$1,200 - $1,800
StatusUnsold
217
  • Heading
    (Picard, Françoise, bookbinder)
  • Author
    D'Houville, Gérard
  • Headline
    Handsome hand-binding by Françoise Picard
  • Publisher
    Société d'Édition "Le Livre"
  • Date Published
    1928
Estimate$3,000 - $5,000
StatusUnsold
218
  • Heading
    (Plato)
  • Author
    Taylor, Thomas, translator
  • Headline
    Thomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793
  • Publisher
    Printed for Benjamin and John White
  • Date Published
    1793
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
219
  • Author
    Pliny the Younger
  • Headline
    Letters of Pliny the Younger, finely bound
  • Publisher
    Sumptibus editoris excudebant M. Ritchie & J. Sammells
  • Date Published
    1790
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$375
StatusSold
229
  • Heading
    (Riviere and Son)
  • Author
    Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Headline
    Tennyson's poems finely bound by Riviere and Son
  • Publisher
    Macmillan and Co.
  • Date Published
    1905
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
234
  • Author
    Saint-Beuve, C.A.
  • Headline
    Portraits of the 18th century, nicely bound
  • Publisher
    G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press
  • Date Published
    1905
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
236
  • Heading
    (Sammelband)
  • Author
    Bromley, Thomas, Thomas Hartley, and Anthony Benezet
  • Headline
    3 Germantown imprints, 1759-60
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Christopher Sower
  • Date Published
    1759-1760
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$875
StatusSold
269
  • Author
    Vanini, Guilio Cesare
  • Headline
    Lucilio Vanini, Amphitheatrum Aeternae
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Widow of Antoine de Harsy
  • Date Published
    1615
Estimate$600 - $900
StatusUnsold
278
  • Heading
    (Zaehnsdorf)
  • Author
    Brusoni, Girolamo
  • Headline
    Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf
  • Publisher
    Francesco Storti
  • Date Published
    1662
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
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