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 1-55 of 55. Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Aesop)AuthorL'Estrange, RogerHeadlineFirst Aesop specifically for childrenPublisherR. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, et alDate Published1692 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Alchemy)AuthorBasilius ValentinusHeadline1st English edition of important alchemy workPublisherDorman NewmanDate Published1678 Lot #10 The Government of the Tongue [bound with] The Art of Contentment [and] The Lively Oracles View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Author[Allestree, Richard]HeadlineThree from Richard AllestreeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe TheaterDate Published1675-1678 Lot #43 Bible in Czech View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Heading(Bible in Czech)HeadlineFirst Melantrich Bible, in Czech, 1549 IllustratedPublisher[Jiří Melantrich]Date Published1549 Lot #44 Annotations upon the Holy Bible View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Bible in English - Commentary)HeadlineBiblical commentary in English from 1696PublisherPrinted for Thomas Parkhurst, Jonathan Robinson, [et al.]Date Published1696 Lot #45 Complete Signature of eight Leaves from the 1540 Great Bible with text from II Kings and I Chronicles View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(Bible in English)Headline8 leaves from the 1540 Great Bible in EnglishPublisherThomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas BertheletDate Published1540 Lot #48 Biblia, Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft, deß Alten und Neuen Testaments, wie solche von Herrn Doctor Martin Luther.... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Bible in German)AuthorLuther, Martin, translatorHeadlineLuther Bible in German, 1720 Folio, woodcutsPublisherIn Verlegung Johann Andreä Enders Seel. Sohn und ErbenDate Published1720 Lot #50 Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold 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 Lot #53 Discorsi Academici [bound with] Versi Sciolti e Rimati View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold 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 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 #63 The Retir'd Gardener. In Six Parts. The Two First Being Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Gardener... View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold AuthorCarpenter, JosephHeadlineRetir'd Gardener, owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted for J. ThonsonDate Published1717 Lot #73 A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)AuthorFernández de Avellaneda, AlonsoHeadlineDon Quixote shot and killed - English ed. 1705PublisherPrinted for Jeffery Wale and John SenexDate Published1705 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 #81 The Travels of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [bound together with] Free-Grace View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Christianity)HeadlineTwo early 18th c. religious worksDate Published1700-1725 Lot #83 Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorCollier, JeremyHeadlineJ. Collier Essays on Moral SubjectsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1707-1709 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... View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorCrescenzi, Pietro deHeadline16th century agricultural treatise, P. CrescenziPublisherBindoni BernardinoDate Published1542 Lot #91 Q. Curtii Rufi Rerum Alexandri Magni Libri VIII supersistes. Accedunt Titi Pompae et Ian Loccenii Notae View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorCurtius Rufus, QuintusHeadlineRoman History, Elzevir printing 1625PublisherEx Officina ElsevirianaDate Published1625 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... View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(Desargues, Gérard)AuthorKing, Daniel, translatorHeadline17th c. work on sundials owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted by Tho. LeachDate Published1659 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorEdmundson, WilliamHeadlineOn the founder of Quakers in Ireland, 1715ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Samuel FairbrotherDate Published1715 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorEquicola, MarioHeadlineEarly 17th century history of Mantova, ItalyPublisherFrancesco OsannaDate Published1607 Lot #105 Il Comento di Marsilio Ficino Sopra il Convito di Platone. Et esso Convito. Tradotti in Lingua Toscana per Hercole Barbarasa da Terni View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorFicino, MarsilioHeadlineMarsilio Ficino on Plato's SymposiumProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisher[Giovanni Farri e fratelli]Date Published1544 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 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorGay, JohnHeadline1st edition of John Gay's Beggar's OperaProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for John WattsDate Published1728 Lot #124 The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq; Extracted Principally From His Original Papers View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Author[Goldsmith, Oliver]HeadlineBio of celebrated 18th-century fashion iconProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for J. NewberyDate Published[1762] Lot #130 Le Jardinier Hollandois = Der Niederländische Gärtner View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorGroe, Jan van derHeadlineHolland Gardener 1669, owned by Florence YochProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherMarc DoornickDate Published1669-1670 Lot #145 Original leaf from the Polychronicon View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Incunabula)AuthorHigden, RanulfHeadlineIncunable Wynkyn de Worde leaf, 1498PublisherBy me Wynken de WordeDate Published1498 Lot #146 Four Original Leaves from La Mer d'Hystoire View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$406.25StatusSold Heading(Incunabula, French)AuthorVerard, Antoine, and othersHeadline4 leaves from La Mer d'Hystoire, 1491 illustratedDate Published1491 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 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineJohnson's Dictionary Third Edition 1765PublisherPrinted by W. Strahan for A. Millar, T. Longman, et alDate Published1765 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 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineOctavo edition of Johnson's Dictionary 1792PublisherA. MillarDate Published1792 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... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorJones, WilliamHeadlineSir William Jones Reports 1675PublisherPrinted by T.R. and N.T. for Thomas Basset and Richard ChiswelDate Published1675 Lot #156 An Introduction to the True Astronomy: or, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorKeill, JohnHeadlineKeill's Introduction to Astronomy, 1721PublisherPrinted for Bernard LintotDate Published1721 Lot #171 Flora Suecica: Exhibens Plantas per Regnum Sueciae Crescentes, Systematice View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorLinné, Carl von [Carolus Linnaeus]HeadlineLinnaeus on Taxonomy of Swedish flora 1745PublisherSumtu & literis Laurentii SalviiDate Published1745 Lot #174 Vindiciae Gallicae. Defence of the French Revolution and Its English Admirers... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorMackintosh, JamesHeadlineJames Mackintosh Vindiciae Gallicae 1791PublisherPrinted for G.G. J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1791 Lot #176 Paulli Manutii Epistolarum Lib. XII View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorManuzio, PaoloHeadlineLetters of Paulus Manutius, 1616PublisherSumtiubes Esaiae le PreuxDate Published1616 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 #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 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold 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 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 #211 The First Book of Architecture View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold AuthorPalladio, AndreaHeadlineAndrea Palladio's Architecture, Florence Yoch's copyProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherPrinted for A. Bettesworth, et al.Date Published1733 Lot #215 Eight issues of Philosophical Transactions View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline8 issues from 1st year of Philosophical TransactionsDate Published1665-1667 Lot #218 The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Timaeus of Plato View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Plato)AuthorTaylor, Thomas, translatorHeadlineThomas Taylor's translation of Plato, 1793PublisherPrinted for Benjamin and John WhiteDate Published1793 Lot #220 Les Vies des Hommes Illustres Grecs et Romains View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineFolio Plutarch's Lives in French, 1635PublisherDe l'Imprimerie de Iacob StoerDate Published1635 Lot #221 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold AuthorPlutarchHeadlineA lovely copy of Plutarch, 1610-12PublisherRichard FieldDate Published1612/1610 Lot #223 Orator Extemporaneus sive artis oratoriae breviarium bipartitum... Accesserunt M.Z. Boxhorni Ideae Orationum View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold AuthorRadau, Michael, Georg Beckher, and Marcus Zuerius Van BoxhornHeadlineSeventeenth-century Latin elocution & oratoryPublisherSumptu Michaelis GuntheriDate Published1687 Lot #224 La Dernière Avanture D'Un Homme de Quarantecinq-ans; Nouvelle Utile à plus d'un Lecteur View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorRéstif de la Bretonne, Nicolas EdmeHeadlineLa Dernière Avanture, First EditionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChés RegnaultDate Published1783 Lot #233 I Dieci Libri d'Architettura View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold AuthorRusconi, Giovanni AntonioHeadlineFlorence Yoch's copy of 1660 architectural workProvenanceFlorence Yoch, Landscape ArchitectPublisherFrancesco Valvasense/Appresso il NicoliniDate Published1660 Lot #237 Sammelband of three Renaissance texts in Latin View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$325StatusSold Heading(Sammelband)Headline3 Renaissance Latin texts from 1581ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1581 Lot #240 L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera omnia, ex ult. I. Lipsii emendatione, et M. Annaei Senecae rhetoris quae exstant, ex And. Schotti recens. View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSeneca, Lucius Annaeus and Marcus Annaeus Seneca (The Younger and the Older)Headline12mo Seneca philosophy & Seneca the Elder 1634PublisherApud Guili. I. Blaeuw.Date Published1634 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 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorSerres, Jean deHeadlineDe Serres, A Generall Historie of France 1624PublisherImprinted by G. Eld & M. FlesherDate Published1624 Lot #244 Regiam Maiestatem Scotiae, Veteres Leges et Constitutiones, Ex Archivis Publicis, et Antiquis Libris... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Skene, John]HeadlineSkene's Regiam Maiestatem, 1613PublisherApud Ioannem BilliumDate Published1613 Lot #252 [Tragedies of Sophocles, with Scholia of Demetrius Triclinius] Σοφοκλεους Τραγωδιαι... Δημητριου του Τρικλινιου περι μετρων οις εχρησατο Σοφοκλης, Περι σχηματον, Σχολια View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold AuthorSophoclesHeadlineTurnebe edition of Sophocles in Greek w/ Scholia, 1553PublisherApud Adrianum Turnebum typographum RegiumDate Published1552-1553 Lot #255 The Works of Edmund Spenser View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineNice collected set of Spenser's worksPublisherF.C. and J. Rivington, et al.Date Published1805 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 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold AuthorSully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc deHeadlineMemoirs of Maximilian de Bethune Duke of SullyPublisherPrinted for J. Rivington and Sons, et. al.Date Published1778 Lot #262 The Examiners for the Year 1711 [with] The Second Volume of the Examiners View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Swift, Jonathan)Headline1711 paper edited by Jonathan SwiftPublisherJohn Morphew and A. DoddDate Published1712; 1714 Lot #266 Ritratto di Roma Antica, nel quale sono figurati... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorTotti, PompilioHeadlinePompilio Totti on Ancient Rome, 1645PublisherFranceso MonetaDate Published[1645] Lot #269 Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold AuthorVanini, Guilio CesareHeadlineLucilio Vanini, Amphitheatrum AeternaeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWidow of Antoine de HarsyDate Published1615 Lot #275 Maximes of Reason: or, the Reason of the Common Law of England View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next