Sale 829: Antiquarian & Collectible Books with Fine Press: Selections from the Professor George Starr Collection (with additions) – Part 1 (#829) 01/09/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/09/2025 11:00 AM PST Auction Info 829 715 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 1-46 of 46. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Illustrated View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Allom, Thomas, artist)AuthorWalsh, RobertHeadlineThomas Allom's views of the Turkish EmpireProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherFisher, Son & Co.Date Publishedc.1839 Lot #33 From Pole to Pole View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Bayntun)AuthorHedin, SvenHeadlineSven Hedin's Pole to Pole, bound by BayntunPublisherMacmillan and Co., LimitedDate Published1914 Lot #38 Tibet, Past and Present View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold AuthorBell, CharlesHeadlineCharles Bell, Tibet, 1929ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherClarendon PressDate Published1924 Lot #63 Orley Farm View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Brian Frost & Company)AuthorTrollope, AnthonyHeadlineOrley's Farm, bound by Brian Frost & CompanyPublisherChapman and HallDate Published1862 Lot #71 Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorBurnet, GilbertHeadlineFinely bound John, Earl of Rochester conversionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for Richard ChiswelDate Published1680 Lot #77 The French Revolution: A History View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,125StatusSold AuthorCarlyle, ThomasHeadlineCarlyle's French Revolution, 1st editionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJames FraserDate Published1837 Lot #84 De la Félicité Publique, ou Considérations sur le Sort des Hommes dans les différentes Epoques de l'histoire View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorChastellux, François-Jean, Marquis deHeadlineChastellux's De la Félicité Publique 1772ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMarc-Michel ReyDate Published1772 Lot #93 National Costumes of the M.P.R. View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Heading(Costume)AuthorYadamsuren, U.HeadlineNational Costumes of Mongolia, color platesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherState Publishing HouseDate Published1967 Lot #101 Commentaries of the Life of Reign of Charles the First, King of England View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold AuthorD'Israeli, IsaacHeadlineCommentaries on the Life of Charles the FirstPublisherHenry Colburn and Richard BentleyDate Published1830 Lot #108 Roma Vetus ac Recens Utriusque Aedificiis Illustrata. In multis locis aucta, castigator reddita, indice locupletissimo & figuris aeneis illustrata. Editio Ultima. View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold AuthorDonati, AlessandroHeadlineRoman Views by Alessandro Donati, 1695ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Janssonio-Waesbergios & Joannem WoltersDate Published1695 Lot #114 Catherine de Medicis View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Durvand)AuthorBouchot, HenriHeadlineCatherine de Medicis finely bound by DurvandPublisherGoupil et CieDate Published1899 Lot #123 Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c... Comprising the Palaces, Parks, New Churches, Bridges, Streets, River Scenery, Public Offices and Institutions, Gentlemen's Seats and Mansions... with Historical, Topographical, and Critical Illustrations... View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold AuthorElmes, James and Thomas H. ShepardHeadlineMetropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth CenturyProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJones & Co.Date Published1827 Lot #169 St. Leon [with] Caleb Williams View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorGodwin, WilliamHeadline2 finely bound William Godwin volumesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherColburn and BentleyDate Published1831 Lot #177 Sapho View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Heading(Gorguet, Auguste-François, illustrator)AuthorDaudet, AlphonseHeadlineDaudet's Sapho, 1/12, plates in multiple statesPublisherArmand MagnierDate Published1897 Lot #192 The Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold AuthorHawthorne, NathanielHeadlineWorks of Hawthorne autograph editionPublisherHoughton Mifflin CompanyDate Published1900 Lot #195 Through Asia View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorHedin, SvenHeadlineSven Hedin's Through Asia 1898ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published1898 Lot #199 Representations of Dresses, Morals and Customs, in the Kingdom of Holland at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Holland)AuthorMaaskamp, EvertHeadlineWith 21 hand-colored platesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherE. MaaskampDate Published1808 [but 1811] Lot #206 W.M. Hunt's Talks on Art: Second Series View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorHunt, W.M.HeadlineW.M. Hunt's Talks on Art 1st and 2nd SeriesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherHoughton Mifflin and CompanyDate Published1892 Lot #208 The Great Wahabee Case; being a full report of the proceedings in the matters of Ameer Khan and Hashmdad Khan, before Justice Norman, in the High Court of Calcutta, original jurisdiction View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(India)HeadlineJihadists on trial in British India, 1870ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by P.S. D'RozariDate Published1870 Lot #214 Le Gil-Blas françois ou Aventures de Henri Lançon, écrites par lui-même View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorJeanmarie, Henri, 1756-1808 [M. Le Marie de Nancy, or Lemarie]HeadlineAdventures of Henri Lancon, 1st edition 1790ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherNo publisherDate Published1790 Lot #215 The Bontoc Igorot View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$343.75StatusSold AuthorJenks, Albert ErnestHeadlineBontoc Igorot Philippines 1905, many photographsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherBureau of Public PrintingDate Published1905 Lot #222 Journal of Francis Anne Butler View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Author[Kemble, Fanny]HeadlineFanny Kemble's Tour of America in 1832-1833ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published[1835] Lot #225 Works of Charles Kingsley View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorKingsley, CharlesHeadlineNicely bound set of Charles Kingsley's WorksPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1881 Lot #267 Les Arts au Moyen Age View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Medieval Art)AuthorDu Sommerard, AlexandreHeadlinePlate volumes to Sommerard's Arts au Moyen AgePublisherHotel de ClunyDate Published1838-1846 Lot #279 The Complete Poetical Works View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(The Monastery Hill Bindery)AuthorBryant, William CullenHeadlineThe Poetry of Bryant, bound by Monastery HillPublisherAppleton and CompanyDate Published1910 Lot #282 Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society... of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Author[Morton, Henry, Charles Reuben Hale & S. Huntington Jones]HeadlineMorton Report Philomathean Soc. Rosetta StoneProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPhilomathean SocietyDate Published1859 Lot #306 Jerosolymitana peregrinatio...Dum assertiones ex universa theologia...Joannis Duns-Scoti ...in conventu Jaurinensi ad divum Stephanum... anno 1754...publice propugnaret Vincentius Nagy ...praeside Basilio Farkas View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$406.25StatusSold AuthorRadziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzysztof, książęHeadlineNicolaus Christof Radziwill pilgrimage to JerusalemProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherTypis Gregorii Joannis StreibigDate Published1754 Lot #310 In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$2,500StatusSold Heading(Ricketts, Charles)AuthorSymonds, John AddingtonHeadlineSymonds Key of Blue, Ricketts cover, 1/50 deluxeProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherElkin Mathews & John Lane and MacmillanDate Published1893 Lot #312 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorKhayyám, OmarHeadlineRubáiyát of Khayyám bound by RiviereProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1911 Lot #313 Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries View details Estimate$700 - $100Sold for$2,375StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorLeslie, Charles Robert and Tom TaylorHeadline6 volume fine binding by Riviere & SonProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1865 Lot #314 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: To Himself View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorMarcus Aurelius AntoninusHeadlineMeditations bound by Riviere & SonProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1932 Lot #315 Poems of Christina Rossetti View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorRossetti, William M., editorHeadlineFinely bound Poems of Christina RossettiProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1931 Lot #316 Verses to the Memory of Garrick. Spoken as a Monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorSheridan, Richard BrinsleyHeadlineSheridan poetry finely bound by Riviere & SonProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherT. Evans, J. Wilkie, E. and C. Dilly, A. Portal, and J. AlmonDate Published1779 Lot #317 Coaching Days and Coaching Ways View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Riviere & Son)AuthorTristram, Outram W.HeadlineUnusual embossed binding by Riviere & SonPublisherMacmillanDate Published1914 Lot #318 Patriarcha: Or The Natural Power of Kings View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(Riviere)AuthorFilmer, Robert, SirHeadlineRobert Filmer, Natural Power of Kings 1680ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherWalter DavisDate Published1680 Lot #321 The Religion of Vishnoo. The History of the Most Remarkable Events of the Ten Avatars or Incarnations of Vishnoo, the Preserving Power of India... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorRodriguez, Etienne AlexanderHeadlineWith color plates of VishnuProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for the AuthorDate Published1849 Lot #324 The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold AuthorRoth, Henry LingHeadlineNatives of Sarawak & North Borneo, illustratedProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherTruslove & HansonDate Published1896 Lot #331 Le Vicaire de Wakefield View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(Samblanx, Charles de)AuthorGoldsmith, [Oliver]HeadlineCharles de Samblanx Cathedral bindingPublisherBourgueleret, ÉditeurDate Published1838 Lot #332 Sixteenth-century sammelband with three titles View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Sammelband)Headline16th c. German sammelband, 3 Latin titlesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherEx Officina Paltheniana, sumptibus viduae Petri FischeriDate Published1596 Lot #335 Mycenae [with] Ilios View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSchliemann, HenryHeadlineHenry Schliemann on the sites of Mycenae & TroyProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1878-1881 Lot #336 Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia, in the South of Europe and in Brazil, with a Voyage up the Amazon and the Xingu View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSchomburgk, Robert H. and John Edward Taylor, translatorsHeadlineAdalbert's Travels in the Europe and BrazilProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherDavid BogueDate Published[1849] Lot #348 Celebrated Crimes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Heading(Stikeman & Co.)AuthorDumas, AlexandreHeadlineCelebrated Crimes, bound by Stikeman & Co.PublisherH.S. NicholsDate Published1895 Lot #351 The Travels of Jedediah Smith: A Documentary Outline Including the Journal of the Great American Pathfinder View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorSullivan, Maurice S.HeadlineThe Travels of Jedediah Smith by SullivanProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherThe Fine Arts PressDate Published1934 Lot #362 The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Tout Bindery)AuthorCampbell, ThomasHeadlineJansenist-style binding by ToutDate Published1837 Lot #372 The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold AuthorWhiston, William, translatorHeadlineComplete Works of Flavius Josephus, nicely boundProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherT. Nelson and SonsDate Published[1863] Lot #380 The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn from Nature View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorWright, G.N.HeadlineWith numerous plates of the Mediterranean 1839ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherFisher, Son, & Co.Date Published[1839] Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next