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 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #20 Bachman's Swamp-Warbler AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineBachman's Swamp-Warbler, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #21 Buff-breasted Mergenter-Goosander AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineBuff-breasted Mergenter-Goosander, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #22 Cerulean Wood-Warbler AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineCerulean Wood-Warbler, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #23 Columbia Magpie or Jay AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineColumbia Magpie or Jay, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #24 Common American Partridge AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineCommon American Partridge, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #25 Common Cardinal Grosbeak AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineCommon Cardinal Grosbeak, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #26 Crested Purple Finch AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineCrested Purple Finch, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #27 Eider Duck AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineEider Duck, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #28 Golden Eye Duck AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineGolden Eye Duck, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #29 Great White Heron AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineGreat White Heron Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #30 Red-breasted Merganser AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineRed-breasted Merganser, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #31 Reddish Egret AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineReddish Egret, Audubon, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #32 Sandwich Tern AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineSandwich Tern, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #33 Shoveller Duck AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineShoveller Duck, hand-coloredPublisherJ.T. BowenDate Published1840-44 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #58 A draft, proof, and proposal by Ray Bradbury AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineA draft, proof, and proposal by Ray Bradbury - 1 inscribedDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #61 Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston AuthorCallenbach, ErnestHeadline1st Edition of Callenbach's EcotopiaPublisherBanyan Tree BooksDate Published[1975] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #63 The Retir'd Gardener. In Six Parts. The Two First Being Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Gardener... AuthorCarpenter, JosephHeadlineRetir'd Gardener, owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted for J. ThonsonDate Published1717 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #65 Silent Spring AuthorCarson, RachelHeadlineRachel Carson Silent Spring First EditionPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1962 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #88 D'agricoltura. Dove si contiene il modo di coltivare la terra, seminare, & inserir gli arbori: con la proprietà delle herbe, & di tutti i frutti, et la natura di tutti gli animali... AuthorCrescenzi, Pietro deHeadline16th century agricultural treatise, P. CrescenziPublisherBindoni BernardinoDate Published1542 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #98 The Waste Land AuthorEliot, T. S.HeadlineT.S. Eliot's The Waste Land bound in full leatherPublisherBoni and LiverightDate Published1922 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #104 WITHDRAWN: Les Mamelles de Tirésias Heading(Ferat, Serge)AuthorApollinaire, GuillaumeHeadlineWITHDRAWNPublisherÉditions SicDate Published1918 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 #127 The Tree-Lifter; or, a New Method of Transplanting Forest Trees AuthorGreenwood, Colonel GeorgeHeadlineThe Tree-Lifter, owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1853 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #135 Two Christmas Tales [with] fifteen additional Hart Press publications AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineScarce Hemingway X-Mas Tales, Hart Press '59ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe Hart PressDate Published1957-1976 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #136 The Amateur's Rose Book, Comprising the Cultivation of the Rose... AuthorHibberd, ShirleyHeadlineHibberd, The Amateur's Rose Book 1874PublisherGroombridge and SonsDate Published1874 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #144 A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals [with] Darwiniana AuthorHuxley, Thomas H.HeadlineTwo by Darwin apologist Thomas H. HuxleyPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1872; 1898 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #167 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches... AuthorLesson, René PrimevèreHeadlineWith 86 hand-colored plates of hummingbirdsPublisherArthus BertrandDate Published[1829-30] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #168 Les Trochilidées ou Les Colibris et Les Oiseaux-Mouches... AuthorLesson, René PrimevèreHeadlineWith 66 hand-colored plates of hummingbirdsPublisherArthus BertrandDate Published[1829-30] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #171 Flora Suecica: Exhibens Plantas per Regnum Sueciae Crescentes, Systematice AuthorLinné, Carl von [Carolus Linnaeus]HeadlineLinnaeus on Taxonomy of Swedish flora 1745PublisherSumtu & literis Laurentii SalviiDate Published1745 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #172 Bald-Face [in] The Muse: A Little Book of Art and Letters AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineFirst appearance of Bald-Face in The Muse, 1900ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe Lotos ClubDate Published1900 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #173 The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation AuthorLyell, CharlesHeadlineGeological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManPublisherGeorge W. ChildsDate Published1863 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #178 WITHDRAWN: The Linnaean System of Conchology, Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells, Arranged into Divisions and Families AuthorMawe, JohnHeadlineWITHDRAWNPublisherLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BrownDate Published1823 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #212 Organic Remains of a Former World. Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World; Generally Termed Extraneous Fossils AuthorParkinson, JamesHeadlinePaleontology by identifier of Parkinson's diseaseProvenanceCharles Atwood Kofoid (bookplate); Professor George Starr CollectionPublisherC. Whittingham et alDate Published1804 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #239 The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidae, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies AuthorSeebohm, HenryHeadlineWith 21 handcolored plates after KeulemansPublisherHenry Sotheran & Co.Date Published[1887] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #242 Le Theatre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs AuthorSerres, Oliver deHeadline1st French major treatise on agronomy, later ed.ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherImprimé pour Samuel ChouëtDate Published1651 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #253 The Recent Origin of Man, as Illustrated by Geology and the Modern Science of Pre-Historic Archaeology AuthorSouthall, James C.HeadlineClassic archaeological work 1875PublisherJ.B. Lippincott & Co.Date Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #256 An Introduction to the Study of Cryptogamous Plants. In Letters AuthorSprengel, Kurt Polycarp JoachimHeadlineKurt Sprengel on Cryptogamous Plants, 1807PublisherPrinted for J. WhiteDate Published1807 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #263 Monographies de Mammalogie, ou Description de Quelques genres de Mammifères...Tome Premier AuthorTemminck, C.J.HeadlineTemminck on mammalsPublisherChez G. Dufour et Ed. D'OcagneDate Published1827 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #264 Avis aux Cultivateurs, sur la Culture du Tabac en France Author[Tessier, Alexandre-Henri]HeadlineGrowing of Tobacco in France, 1791PublisherDe l'Imprimerie de la Feuille du Cultivateur/Publié par la Société Royale d'AgricultureDate Published1794 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #295 A Wrinkle In Time AuthorL'Engle, MadeleineHeadlineL'Engle A Wrinkle in Time 1st ed in djPublisherAriel Books / Farrar, Straus and CudahyDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next