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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  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Bachman's Swamp-Warbler, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
21
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Buff-breasted Mergenter-Goosander, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
22
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Cerulean Wood-Warbler, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$225
StatusSold
23
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Columbia Magpie or Jay, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$212.50
StatusSold
24
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Common American Partridge, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
25
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Common Cardinal Grosbeak, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$406.25
StatusSold
26
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Crested Purple Finch, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$150
StatusSold
27
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Eider Duck, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
28
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Golden Eye Duck, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
29
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Great White Heron Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
30
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Red-breasted Merganser, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
31
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Reddish Egret, Audubon, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$312.50
StatusSold
32
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Sandwich Tern, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$125
StatusSold
33
  • Author
    Audubon, John James
  • Headline
    Shoveller Duck, hand-colored
  • Publisher
    J.T. Bowen
  • Date Published
    1840-44
Estimate$200 - $300
StatusUnsold
58
  • Author
    Bradbury, Ray
  • Headline
    A draft, proof, and proposal by Ray Bradbury - 1 inscribed
  • Date Published
    Various dates
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$237.50
StatusSold
61
  • Author
    Callenbach, Ernest
  • Headline
    1st Edition of Callenbach's Ecotopia
  • Publisher
    Banyan Tree Books
  • Date Published
    [1975]
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$531.25
StatusSold
63
  • Author
    Carpenter, Joseph
  • Headline
    Retir'd Gardener, owned by Florence Yoch
  • Provenance
    Florence Yoch, Landscape Architect
  • Publisher
    Printed for J. Thonson
  • Date Published
    1717
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$500
StatusSold
65
  • Author
    Carson, Rachel
  • Headline
    Rachel Carson Silent Spring First Edition
  • Publisher
    Houghton Mifflin Company
  • Date Published
    1962
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$187.50
StatusSold
88
  • Author
    Crescenzi, Pietro de
  • Headline
    16th century agricultural treatise, P. Crescenzi
  • Publisher
    Bindoni Bernardino
  • Date Published
    1542
Estimate$400 - $600
Sold for$250
StatusSold
98
  • Author
    Eliot, T. S.
  • Headline
    T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land bound in full leather
  • Publisher
    Boni and Liveright
  • Date Published
    1922
Estimate$4,000 - $6,000
StatusUnsold
104
  • Heading
    (Ferat, Serge)
  • Author
    Apollinaire, Guillaume
  • Headline
    WITHDRAWN
  • Publisher
    Éditions Sic
  • Date Published
    1918
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
108
  • Heading
    (Fine Bindings)
  • Author
    Lydekker, R.
  • Headline
    Lovely prize binding from 1905
  • Publisher
    At the University Press
  • Date Published
    1896
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
127
  • Author
    Greenwood, Colonel George
  • Headline
    The Tree-Lifter, owned by Florence Yoch
  • Provenance
    Florence Yoch, Landscape Architect
  • Publisher
    Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  • Date Published
    1853
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
135
  • Author
    Hemingway, Ernest
  • Headline
    Scarce Hemingway X-Mas Tales, Hart Press '59
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    The Hart Press
  • Date Published
    1957-1976
Estimate$800 - $1,200
Sold for$593.75
StatusSold
136
  • Author
    Hibberd, Shirley
  • Headline
    Hibberd, The Amateur's Rose Book 1874
  • Publisher
    Groombridge and Sons
  • Date Published
    1874
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
144
  • Author
    Huxley, Thomas H.
  • Headline
    Two by Darwin apologist Thomas H. Huxley
  • Publisher
    D. Appleton and Company
  • Date Published
    1872; 1898
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
167
  • Author
    Lesson, René Primevère
  • Headline
    With 86 hand-colored plates of hummingbirds
  • Publisher
    Arthus Bertrand
  • Date Published
    [1829-30]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$1,000
StatusSold
168
  • Author
    Lesson, René Primevère
  • Headline
    With 66 hand-colored plates of hummingbirds
  • Publisher
    Arthus Bertrand
  • Date Published
    [1829-30]
Estimate$1,500 - $2,500
Sold for$937.50
StatusSold
171
  • Author
    Linné, Carl von [Carolus Linnaeus]
  • Headline
    Linnaeus on Taxonomy of Swedish flora 1745
  • Publisher
    Sumtu & literis Laurentii Salvii
  • Date Published
    1745
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
StatusUnsold
172
  • Author
    London, Jack
  • Headline
    First appearance of Bald-Face in The Muse, 1900
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    The Lotos Club
  • Date Published
    1900
Estimate$800 - $1,200
StatusUnsold
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
178
  • Author
    Mawe, John
  • Headline
    WITHDRAWN
  • Publisher
    Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
  • Date Published
    1823
Estimate$200 - $300
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
239
  • Author
    Seebohm, Henry
  • Headline
    With 21 handcolored plates after Keulemans
  • Publisher
    Henry Sotheran & Co.
  • Date Published
    [1887]
Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
StatusUnsold
242
  • Author
    Serres, Oliver de
  • Headline
    1st French major treatise on agronomy, later ed.
  • Provenance
    Professor George Starr Collection
  • Publisher
    Imprimé pour Samuel Chouët
  • Date Published
    1651
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$150
StatusSold
253
  • Author
    Southall, James C.
  • Headline
    Classic archaeological work 1875
  • Publisher
    J.B. Lippincott & Co.
  • Date Published
    1875
Estimate$200 - $300
Sold for$343.75
StatusSold
256
  • Author
    Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim
  • Headline
    Kurt Sprengel on Cryptogamous Plants, 1807
  • Publisher
    Printed for J. White
  • Date Published
    1807
Estimate$300 - $500
Sold for$200
StatusSold
263
  • Author
    Temminck, C.J.
  • Headline
    Temminck on mammals
  • Publisher
    Chez G. Dufour et Ed. D'Ocagne
  • Date Published
    1827
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
264
  • Author
    [Tessier, Alexandre-Henri]
  • Headline
    Growing of Tobacco in France, 1791
  • Publisher
    De l'Imprimerie de la Feuille du Cultivateur/Publié par la Société Royale d'Agriculture
  • Date Published
    1794
Estimate$300 - $500
StatusUnsold
295
  • Author
    L'Engle, Madeleine
  • Headline
    L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time 1st ed in dj
  • Publisher
    Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
  • Date Published
    [1962]
Estimate$2,000 - $3,000
Sold for$1,625
StatusSold
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