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 1-27 of 27. 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 #50 Moderne Technik: Die wichtigsten Gebiete der Maschinentechnik und Verkehrstechnik... View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold AuthorBlücher, HansHeadlineWith 15 extraordinary color plates with overlaysProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherBibliographisches InstitutDate Published1912 Lot #64 Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorBrigham, William T.HeadlineKa Hana Kapa color plates, Hawaii bark clothProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherBishop Museum PressDate Published1911 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 #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 #124 Die Pferdezucht Württembergs. Abbildungen ausgezeichneter Zucht-Pferde aus den Privat-Gestüten S. Maj. des Königs und dem Königlichen Land-Gestüte View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Equestrian)Headline15 equestrian plates, many chromolithographProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherVerlag von Ebner & SeubertDate Published1857 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 #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 #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 #242 Juguetes Mexicanos View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorLedesma, G. FernandezHeadlineStudy of Mexican toysPublisher[Talleres Gráficos de la Nación]Date Published[1930] Lot #258 Mountains and Molehills: Or Recollections of a Burnt Journal View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$437.50StatusSold AuthorMarryat, FrankHeadlineMountains and Molehills by Frank MarryatProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherLongman, Brown, Green & LongmansDate Published1855 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 #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 #293 Cinderella View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Pantomime Toy Books)HeadlineCinderella illustrated in color as a stage playProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherMcLoughlin Bro'sDate Publishedc. 1880 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 #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 #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 #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 #363 Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum. The Shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold AuthorTurton, WilliamHeadlineWith 20 hand-colored plates of shellsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherM. A. NattaliDate Published[1822] 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