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 1-33 of 33. Previous|1|Next 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 #47 Les Actes des Apostres: Traduits en Franc̜ois, avec une Explication Tirée des Saints Peres & des Autheurs Ecclesiastiques View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in French)Author[Lemaistre de Sacy, Louis-Isaac]HeadlineDe Sacy's Acts in Jansenist binding, 1700PublisherGuillaume DesprezDate Published1700 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 #67 Regole ed Istruzzioni da osservarsi Nell, Accompagnamento del Ssmo. Viatico... View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Catholicism - Last Rites)HeadlineRules and Instructions for the ViaticumPublisherNella Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apost.Date Published1758 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 #79 Journal of the West China Border Research Society View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Heading(China)HeadlineFirst English journal pub. in Sichuan, 1922-37PublisherCanadian Methodist Mission PressDate Published1922-1945 Lot #81 The Travels of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [bound together with] Free-Grace View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Christianity)HeadlineTwo early 18th c. religious worksDate Published1700-1725 Lot #97 A Journal of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in the Work of Ministry, of that Worthy Elder and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, William Edmundson View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorEdmundson, WilliamHeadlineOn the founder of Quakers in Ireland, 1715ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Samuel FairbrotherDate Published1715 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 #103 Bibliotheca Latina Mediae et Infimae Aetatis View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold AuthorFabricius, Johann AlbertHeadlineFabricius, Latin Library, Padua 1754PublisherApud Joannem ManfreDate Published1754 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 #113 Multum in Parvo [with] The Ceremonies of Opening and Closing Initiation, Passing and Raising Installation, &c. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Freemasonry)HeadlineTwo vols of Freemason rituals w/ vellum membership certPublisherG. BradshawDate Publishedc.1847 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 #145 Original leaf from the Polychronicon View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Incunabula)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineIncunable Wynkyn de Worde leaf, 1498PublisherBy me Wynken de WordeDate Published1498 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 #199 The Life of David Marks, to the the 26th year of his age. Including the particulars of his conversion, call to the ministry, and labors in itinerant preaching for nearly eleven years View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Mormon)AuthorMarks, DavidHeadlineEarly anti-Mormon accountPublisherPrinted at the Office of the Morning StarDate Published1831 Lot #200 Nőélet a mormonoknál: több évi személyes tapasztalatok előadása. Irta egy mormon főnöknek Utából közelebb visszatért neje. Angolból forditotta B..... S..... View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Heading(Mormon)Author[Ward, Maria]HeadlineAnti-Mormon polygamy account in Hungarian, 1858ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherGeibel Ármin bizományaDate Published1858 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 #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 #236 Way to the Sabbath of Rest [bound with] Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion [bound with] Observations on the Inslaving, Importing, and Purchasing of Negroes View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$875StatusSold Heading(Sammelband)AuthorBromley, Thomas, Thomas Hartley, and Anthony BenezetHeadline3 Germantown imprints, 1759-60ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChristopher SowerDate Published1759-1760 Lot #269 Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorVanini, Guilio CesareHeadlineLucilio Vanini, Amphitheatrum AeternaeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWidow of Antoine de HarsyDate Published1615 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