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