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 1-28 of 28. Previous|1|Next 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 #51 Songs of Innocence AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Songs of Innocence, Trianon facsimilePublisherTrianon PressDate Published1954 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #52 Visions of the Daughters of Albion [with] The Book of Ahania AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineTwo Trianon Blake facsimile editionsPublisher[Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust]Date Published[1959]; [1973] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold 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 #77 Large section from The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, including Troilus and Creseide AuthorChaucer, GeoffreyHeadlineLikely Shakespeare's source for Troilus & CressidaPublisherJohn Kingston for John WightDate Published1561 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold 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 #148 Abhráin Diaḋa Cúige Connaċt. Or, The Religious Songs of Connacht: A Collection of Poems, Stories, Prayers, Satires, Ranns, Charms, etc. Heading(Ireland)AuthorHyde, Douglas (An Craoibhín Aoibhinn), editorHeadlinePoetry inscribed by first President of IrelandProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherM.H. Gill & SonDate PublishedNo date [c.1906] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #183 Songs of Italy [with] autograph letter signed from Miller to Henry Meade Bland AuthorMiller, JoaquinHeadlineFirst Edition with ALS to Henry Meade BlandPublisherRoberts BrothersDate Published1878 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #184 Paradise Lost [with] Paradise Regain'd [with] Sampson Agonistes AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineMilton's poems, illustrated 1695-1715PublisherJacob Tonson/John WhitlockDate Published1695-1715 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold 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 #209 Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands AuthorOvidHeadline1st English Ovid illustrated by Bernard PicartPublisherPrinted for the Wetsteins and SmithDate Published1732 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #214 The Pearl. A Journal of Facetiae Voluptious Reading Heading(The Pearl)Author[Lazenby, William, publisher]HeadlineThe Pearl, an erotic periodical - CompletePublisherPrinted for the Society of viceDate Published1880 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$2,500StatusSold 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 #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 #231 Les Poesies de S. Mallarme Heading(Rops, Felicien)AuthorMallarme, StephaneHeadlineWith frontispiece by Felicien Rops, 1899ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherEdmond DemanDate Published1899 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold 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 #260 The Man with the Blue Guitar & other poems [with] typed letter signed by Wallace Stevens AuthorStevens, WallaceHeadlineBlue Guitar signed inscribed Stevens + TLSProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1937 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$2,375StatusSold 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