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 1-85 of 85. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists Heading(Aesop)AuthorL'Estrange, RogerHeadlineFirst Aesop specifically for childrenPublisherR. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, et alDate Published1692 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #6 Basil Valentine His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with Annotations of Theodore Kirkingius M.D. with The True Book of the Learned Synesius... concerning the Philosopher's Stone Heading(Alchemy)AuthorBasilius ValentinusHeadline1st English edition of important alchemy workPublisherDorman NewmanDate Published1678 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #7 Les Origines de L'Alchimie Heading(Alchemy)AuthorBerthelot, MarcellinHeadlineBerthelot's history of early chemistryPublisherGeorges Steinheil, EditeurDate Published1885 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #9 The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent AuthorAllen, ThomasHeadlineExtra-illustrated History of London 1827ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherCowie and StrangeDate Published1827 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #10 The Government of the Tongue [bound with] The Art of Contentment [and] The Lively Oracles Author[Allestree, Richard]HeadlineThree from Richard AllestreeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe TheaterDate Published1675-1678 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #12 Istorii͡a Sibiri [History of Siberia] AuthorAndrijevič, Vladimir Kallistratovič (Владимир Константинович Андриевич)HeadlineSiberian History in Russian by V.K. Andrievich, 1889ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherV.V. KomarovaDate Published1889 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #13 The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1775-1779 Heading(Annual Register)HeadlineAnnual Registers for 1775-1779PublisherPrinted for J. DodsleyDate Published1777-1781 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #36 History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; Comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France during that Period AuthorBaines, EdwardHeadlineBaines, Wars of the French RevolutionPublisherPrinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and James HarperDate Published1817 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$406.25StatusSold 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 #41 A History of Russia AuthorBell, RobertHeadlineBell's History of Russia in 3 volumes, 1836ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & LongmanDate Published1836 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #43 Bible in Czech Heading(Bible in Czech)HeadlineFirst Melantrich Bible, in Czech, 1549 IllustratedPublisher[Jiří Melantrich]Date Published1549 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #44 Annotations upon the Holy Bible Heading(Bible in English - Commentary)HeadlineBiblical commentary in English from 1696PublisherPrinted for Thomas Parkhurst, Jonathan Robinson, [et al.]Date Published1696 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #45 Complete Signature of eight Leaves from the 1540 Great Bible with text from II Kings and I Chronicles Heading(Bible in English)Headline8 leaves from the 1540 Great Bible in EnglishPublisherThomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas BertheletDate Published1540 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #48 Biblia, Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft, deß Alten und Neuen Testaments, wie solche von Herrn Doctor Martin Luther.... Heading(Bible in German)AuthorLuther, Martin, translatorHeadlineLuther Bible in German, 1720 Folio, woodcutsPublisherIn Verlegung Johann Andreä Enders Seel. Sohn und ErbenDate Published1720 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #50 Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti... Heading(Bible in Latin)AuthorTremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translatorsHeadlineOT only of 1st Latin Bible in England, 1580PublisherExcudebat Henricus Middletonus, impensis W.N.Date Published1580 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #53 Discorsi Academici [bound with] Versi Sciolti e Rimati Heading(Bodoni Printing)AuthorTorre di Rezzonicio, Carlo Cantone Gaetano, conte della [and] Dorillo DafneioHeadline2 elegant Bodoni printings bound in oneProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherStamperia RealeDate Published1772-1773 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold 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 #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 #73 A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorFernández de Avellaneda, AlonsoHeadlineDon Quixote shot and killed - English ed. 1705PublisherPrinted for Jeffery Wale and John SenexDate Published1705 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 #81 The Travels of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [bound together with] Free-Grace Heading(Christianity)HeadlineTwo early 18th c. religious worksDate Published1700-1725 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #83 Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineJ. Collier Essays on Moral SubjectsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1707-1709 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold 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 #91 Q. Curtii Rufi Rerum Alexandri Magni Libri VIII supersistes. Accedunt Titi Pompae et Ian Loccenii Notae AuthorCurtius Rufus, QuintusHeadlineRoman History, Elzevir printing 1625PublisherEx Officina ElsevirianaDate Published1625 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #92 Mr. De Sargues Universal Way of Dyaling. Or Plain and Easie Directions for Placing the Axeltree, and Marking the Hours in Sun-dyals, after the French, Italian, Babylonian, and Jewish Manner... Heading(Desargues, Gérard)AuthorKing, Daniel, translatorHeadline17th c. work on sundials owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted by Tho. LeachDate Published1659 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #96 Great Domesday Book: 900th Anniversary Library Edition Heading(Domesday Book)HeadlineMassive 6 volume set of the Domesday BookPublisherAlecto Historical EditionsDate Published1989 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #97 A Journal of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in the Work of Ministry, of that Worthy Elder and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, William Edmundson AuthorEdmundson, WilliamHeadlineOn the founder of Quakers in Ireland, 1715ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Samuel FairbrotherDate Published1715 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #99 Letter from the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother AuthorElizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great BritainHeadlineLetter from the Queen Mother 1960Date Published1970 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #100 The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 AuthorEngels, FrederickHeadlineEngels Classic of Communist TheoryPublisherSwan Sonnenschein & Co.Date Published1892 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #101 Dell'Istoria di Mantova Libri cinque. Nella quale cominciandosi dall'edificazione di essa Citta, brevemente si raccontano tutte le cose piu notabili succedute di tempo in tempo cosi in pace, come in guerra AuthorEquicola, MarioHeadlineEarly 17th century history of Mantova, ItalyPublisherFrancesco OsannaDate Published1607 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 #105 Il Comento di Marsilio Ficino Sopra il Convito di Platone. Et esso Convito. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana per Hercole Barbarasa da Terni AuthorFicino, MarsilioHeadlineMarsilio Ficino on Plato's SymposiumProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisher[Giovanni Farri e fratelli]Date Published1544 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #106 The Novelties of a Year and a Day, in a Series of Picturesque Letters on the Characters, Manners, and Customs of the Spanish, French, and English Nations... AuthorFigaroHeadlineLetters on Spain, France, and EnglandPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published[1785] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold 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 #117 The Beggar's Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields... To which is Added, The Musick Engrav'd on Copper-Plates AuthorGay, JohnHeadline1st edition of John Gay's Beggar's OperaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for John WattsDate Published1728 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #122 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire AuthorGibbon, EdwardHeadlineGibbon' Decline & Fall, 1813PublisherPrinted for T. Cadell and W. DaviesDate Published1813 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #124 The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq; Extracted Principally From His Original Papers Author[Goldsmith, Oliver]HeadlineBio of celebrated 18th-century fashion iconProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for J. NewberyDate Published[1762] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #130 Le Jardinier Hollandois = Der Niederländische Gärtner AuthorGroe, Jan van derHeadlineHolland Gardener 1669, owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherMarc DoornickDate Published1669-1670 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #141 Sketches of the History of Man. Considerably Improved in a Third Edition. In Two Volumes AuthorHome, Henry, Lord KamesHeadlineHome on the History of Man 1779PublisherPrinted by James WilliamsDate Published1779 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #145 Original leaf from the Polychronicon Heading(Incunabula)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineIncunable Wynkyn de Worde leaf, 1498PublisherBy me Wynken de WordeDate Published1498 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #146 Four Original Leaves from La Mer d'Hystoire Heading(Incunabula, French)AuthorVerard, Antoine, and othersHeadline4 leaves from La Mer d'Hystoire, 1491 illustratedDate Published1491 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #151 The Laws and Appeals of Murder, Containing I. The Nature of Appeals in General; how commenced, and by whom prosecuted in all Cases. II. Of Appeals and Murder, Manslaughter, &c. wherein are explained in numerous Instances... AuthorJacob, GilesHeadlineGiles Jacob on appeals and murder, 1719PublisherPrinted by Eliz. Nutt, and R. GoslingDate Published1719 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #152 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Dictionary Third Edition 1765PublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for A. Millar, T. Longman, et alDate Published1765 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #153 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, Explained in their Different Meanings, and Authorised by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works they are Found. Abstracted from the Folio Edition by the Author AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineOctavo edition of Johnson's Dictionary 1792PublisherA. MillarDate Published1792 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #155 Les Reports de Sir William Jones Chevalier. Jades un des Justices Del' Banck le Roy. Et devant un des Justices del' Court de Common-Banck... AuthorJones, WilliamHeadlineSir William Jones Reports 1675PublisherPrinted by T.R. and N.T. for Thomas Basset and Richard ChiswelDate Published1675 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #156 An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford AuthorKeill, JohnHeadlineKeill's Introduction to Astronomy, 1721PublisherPrinted for Bernard LintotDate Published1721 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold 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 #174 Vindiciae Gallicae. Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers... AuthorMackintosh, JamesHeadlineJames Mackintosh Vindiciae Gallicae 1791PublisherPrinted for G.G. J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1791 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #176 Paulli Manutii Epistolarum Lib. XII AuthorManuzio, PaoloHeadlineLetters of Paulus Manutius, 1616PublisherSumtiubes Esaiae le PreuxDate Published1616 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #177 De Successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales in Nova-Anglia; Epistola AuthorMathero, Crescentio [i.e. Increase Mather]HeadlineIncrease Mather on converting Native AmericansProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Wilhelmum BroedelethDate Published1699 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold 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 #199 The Life of David Marks, to the the 26th year of his age. Including the particulars of his conversion, call to the ministry, and labors in itinerant preaching for nearly eleven years Heading(Mormon)AuthorMarks, DavidHeadlineEarly anti-Mormon accountPublisherPrinted at the Office of the Morning StarDate Published1831 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$468.75StatusSold Lot #207 The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineFirst English edition of Nostradamus, 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel Thompson, and are to be sold by John Martin, [et al.]Date Published1672 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 #211 The First Book of Architecture AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlineAndrea Palladio's Architecture, Florence Yoch's copyProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted for A. Bettesworth, et al.Date Published1733 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #215 Eight issues of Philosophical Transactions Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1665-1667 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #218 The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus of Plato Heading(Plato)AuthorTaylor, Thomas, translatorHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold 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 #220 Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains AuthorPlutarchHeadlineFolio Plutarch's Lives in French, 1635PublisherDe l'Imprimerie de Iacob StoerDate Published1635 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #221 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea AuthorPlutarchHeadlineA lovely copy of Plutarch, 1610-12PublisherRichard FieldDate Published1612/1610 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #223 Orator Extemporaneus sive artis oratoriae breviarium bipartitum... Accesserunt M.Z. Boxhorni Ideae Orationum AuthorRadau, Michael, Georg Beckher, and Marcus Zuerius Van BoxhornHeadlineSeventeenth-century Latin elocution & oratoryPublisherSumptu Michaelis GuntheriDate Published1687 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #224 La Dernière Avanture D'Un Homme de Quarantecinq-ans; Nouvelle Utile à plus d'un Lecteur AuthorRéstif de la Bretonne, Nicolas EdmeHeadlineLa Dernière Avanture, First EditionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChés RegnaultDate Published1783 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #233 I Dieci Libri d'Architettura AuthorRusconi, Giovanni AntonioHeadlineFlorence Yoch's copy of 1660 architectural workProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherFrancesco Valvasense/Appresso il NicoliniDate Published1660 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold 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 #235 An Historical Description of Ancient and Modern Rome; Also of the Works of Art, Particularly in Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting... AuthorSalmon, J.HeadlineJ. Salmon the history and art of Rome 1800PublisherPrinted for the Author by S. GosnellDate Published1800 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #237 Sammelband of three Renaissance texts in Latin Heading(Sammelband)Headline3 Renaissance Latin texts from 1581ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1581 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$325StatusSold Lot #240 L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera omnia, ex ult. I. Lipsii emendatione, et M. Annaei Senecae rhetoris quae exstant, ex And. Schotti recens. AuthorSeneca, Lucius Annaeus and Marcus Annaeus Seneca (The Younger and the Older)Headline12mo Seneca philosophy & Seneca the Elder 1634PublisherApud Guili. I. Blaeuw.Date Published1634 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #241 A Generall Historie of France, written by John de Serres unto the yeare 1598. Contynued by Peter Mathew to the death of King Henry the fourth, in the yeare 1610. And again continued unto the Peace concluded before Montpellier in the yeare 1622. By Edward Grimston, Sargant at Armes AuthorSerres, Jean deHeadlineDe Serres, A Generall Historie of France 1624PublisherImprinted by G. Eld & M. FlesherDate Published1624 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #243 Descriptions of Some of the Utensils in Husbandry, Rolling Carriages, Cart Rollers, and Dvided Rollers for Land or Garden, Mills, Weighing Engines... AuthorSharp, JamesHeadlineSharp's Descriptions of Some of the Utensils in HusbandryPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Publishedc.1777 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #244 Regiam Maiestatem Scotiae, Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, et Antiquis Libris... Author[Skene, John]HeadlineSkene's Regiam Maiestatem, 1613PublisherApud Ioannem BilliumDate Published1613 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #245 Document recording the manumission of a slave paid for by her son Heading(Slavery)HeadlineSon frees his mother in Matanzas, Cuba, 1874Date Published1874 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #246 Four documents detailing the escape of over a dozen slaves in mid-19th century Spanish West Indies Heading(Slavery)HeadlineStory of many slaves escaping, 1852Date Published1852 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #247 List of fugitive slaves and orders for their capture and return in mid-19th century Cuba Heading(Slavery)HeadlineOrders to capture fugitive slaves in Cuba 1849Date Published1849 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #248 Manumission document for a female slave in Cuba Heading(Slavery)HeadlineManumission of 20 y/o woman, Cuba, 1872Date Published1872 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #249 Passport for four slaves from Guanajay, Cuba Heading(Slavery)HeadlinePassport for four slaves, likely mother & childrenDate Published1867 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #252 [Tragedies of Sophocles, with Scholia of Demetrius Triclinius] Σοφοκλεους Τραγωδιαι... Δημητριου του Τρικλινιου περι μετρων οις εχρησατο Σοφοκλης, Περι σχηματον, Σχολια AuthorSophoclesHeadlineTurnebe edition of Sophocles in Greek w/ Scholia, 1553PublisherApud Adrianum Turnebum typographum RegiumDate Published1552-1553 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold 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 #255 The Works of Edmund Spenser AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineNice collected set of Spenser's worksPublisherF.C. and J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1805 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #261 Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. Containing the History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, and his own Administration under Him AuthorSully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc deHeadlineMemoirs of Maximilian de Bethune Duke of SullyPublisherPrinted for J. Rivington and Sons, et. al.Date Published1778 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #262 The Examiners for the Year 1711 [with] The Second Volume of the Examiners Heading(Swift, Jonathan)Headline1711 paper edited by Jonathan SwiftPublisherJohn Morphew and A. DoddDate Published1712; 1714 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #266 Ritratto di Roma Antica, nel quale sono figurati... AuthorTotti, PompilioHeadlinePompilio Totti on Ancient Rome, 1645PublisherFranceso MonetaDate Published[1645] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #269 Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum AuthorVanini, Guilio CesareHeadlineLucilio Vanini, Amphitheatrum AeternaeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWidow of Antoine de HarsyDate Published1615 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #271 The Early Years of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, compiled under the direction of Her Majesty The Queen Heading(Victoria, Queen of Great Britain)AuthorGrey, CharlesHeadlineSigned and inscribed by Queen VictoriaPublisherSmith, Elder and Co.Date Published1868 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #272 Histoire d'un Dessinateur: Comment on Apprend a Dessiner. Texte et Dessins par Viollet-le-Duc AuthorViollet-le-Duc, EugèneHeadlineFrench guide on drawing 1879PublisherJ. Hetzel & CieDate Published[1879] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #275 Maximes of Reason: or, the Reason of the Common Law of England AuthorWingate, EdmondHeadlineEdmund Wingate on 214 legal maxims, 1658PublisherPrinted by R. and W.L. for W. Lee, A. Crook, D. Pakeman, H. Twiford, G. Bedell, T. Dring, J. PlaceDate Published1658 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next