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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7
  • Heading
    (Alchemy)
  • Author
    Berthelot, Marcellin
  • Headline
    Berthelot's history of early chemistry
  • Publisher
    Georges Steinheil, Editeur
  • Date Published
    1885
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$175
StatusSold
19
  • Heading
    (Astronomy)
  • Author
    Sitter, Willem de
  • Headline
    3 inscribed offprints by W. de Sitter
  • Publisher
    Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
  • Date Published
    1906-1908
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
StatusUnsold
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
42
  • Author
    Bell, Sir Charles
  • Headline
    Sir Charles Bell The Hand 1833
  • Publisher
    William Pickering
  • Date Published
    1833
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
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
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
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
70
  • Author
    Cellarius, Andreas
  • Headline
    Ptolemaic model of lunar motion, 1661
  • Date Published
    c.1661
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
71
  • Author
    Cellarius, Andreas
  • Headline
    Chart showing Sun's orbit around the Earth, 1661
  • Date Published
    c.1661
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
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
84
  • Author
    Compton, Arthur Holly and Samuel K. Allison
  • Headline
    Arthur Compton's 1st book owned by David Webster
  • Provenance
    Professor David L. Webster; Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    D. Van Nostrand Company
  • Date Published
    1926-1935
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
StatusUnsold
89
  • Author
    Cresy, Edward
  • Headline
    Cresy's manual on civil engineering
  • Publisher
    Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  • Date Published
    1847
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
92
  • Heading
    (Desargues, Gérard)
  • Author
    King, Daniel, translator
  • Headline
    17th c. work on sundials owned by Florence Yoch
  • Provenance
    Florence Yoch, Landscape Architect
  • Publisher
    Printed by Tho. Leach
  • Date Published
    1659
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
Sold for$625
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
103
  • Author
    Fabricius, Johann Albert
  • Headline
    Fabricius, Latin Library, Padua 1754
  • Publisher
    Apud Joannem Manfre
  • Date Published
    1754
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
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
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
156
  • Author
    Keill, John
  • Headline
    Keill's Introduction to Astronomy, 1721
  • Publisher
    Printed for Bernard Lintot
  • Date Published
    1721
Estimate$500 - $800
Sold for$343.75
StatusSold
164
  • Author
    Laplace, P. S.
  • Headline
    The System of the World by Laplace 1809
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Printed for Richard Phillips
  • Date Published
    1809
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
173
  • Author
    Lyell, Charles
  • Headline
    Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
  • Publisher
    George W. Childs
  • Date Published
    1863
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
175
  • Author
    Malthus, T.R.
  • Headline
    Revised classic of global population growth
  • Publisher
    J. Johnson
  • Date Published
    1807-1817
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$281.25
StatusSold
181
  • Heading
    (Medicine)
  • Author
    Twining, William
  • Headline
    Twining's Diseases of Bengal, 1832
  • Publisher
    Baptist Mission Press
  • Date Published
    1832
Estimate$300 - $500
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
212
  • Author
    Parkinson, James
  • Headline
    Paleontology by identifier of Parkinson's disease
  • Provenance
    Charles Atwood Kofoid (bookplate); Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    C. Whittingham et al
  • Date Published
    1804
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$750
StatusSold
213
  • Author
    Pauling, Linus
  • Headline
    Linus Pauling 1931 offprint signed and inscribed
  • Publisher
    Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Date Published
    1931
Estimate$6,000 - $9,000
Sold for$8,750
StatusSold
215
  • Heading
    (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)
  • Headline
    8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical Transactions
  • Date Published
    1665-1667
Estimate$600 - $900
Sold for$375
StatusSold
216
  • Heading
    (Physics)
  • Author
    Ferguson, James
  • Headline
    James Ferguson Intro to Electricity 3rd
  • Publisher
    Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell
  • Date Published
    1778
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$281.25
StatusSold
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
232
  • Author
    Rorschach, Hermann; Klopfer, Bruno and Douglas McGlashen Kelley
  • Headline
    Rorschach test inkblot cards, 1921
  • Publisher
    Hans Huber; World Book Company
  • Date Published
    [1921]; 1946
Estimate$500 - $800
StatusUnsold
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
270
  • Author
    Vesalius
  • Headline
    Vesalius leaf with skeleton & musculature
  • Publisher
    Johannes Oporinus
  • Date Published
    1543
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
StatusUnsold
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