Sale 829: Antiquarian & Collectible Books with Fine Press: Selections from the Professor George Starr Collection (with additions)

Author
Edgeworth, Maria
Headline
Collected tales of Maria Edgeworth, 1825, 14 vols.
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
R. Hunter; Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co.; et al.
Date Published
1825

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133

Four signed film scripts

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(Film Scripts)
Headline
Four signed film scripts
Date Published
[c.1990-2000]

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134

Three works of the fine press

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(Fine Press)
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LEC works are signed by the illustrators
Date Published
Various dates

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135

The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography

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(The Fleuron)
Author
Simon, Oliver and Stanley Morrison, editors
Headline
Six volumes of The Fleuron
Publisher
The Fleuron
Date Published
1924-1930

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136

The Asbestos Society of Sinners: Detailing the Diversions of Dives and others on the Playground of Pluto...

Author
Fogg, Lawrence Daniel
Headline
The Asbestos Society of Sinners 1st
Publisher
Mayhew Publishing Company
Date Published
[1906]

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137

Five Folio Society titles relating to the 19th Century

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(Folio Society)
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5 Folio Society titles relating on the 19th Century
Publisher
Folio Society
Date Published
Various dates

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138

Three Folio Society titles relating to warfare

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(Folio Society)
Headline
3 Folio Society titles on warfare
Publisher
Folio Society
Date Published
Various dates

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139

Three titles from the Folio Society

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(Folio Society)
Headline
Three titles from the Folio Society
Date Published
2005-2011

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142

A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal

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(Food & Drink)
Author
Bourdain, Anthony
Headline
With bookmark signed by Anthony Bourdain
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Date Published
[2001]

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143

From Julia Child's Kitchen

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(Food & Drink)
Author
Child, Julia
Headline
From Julia Child's Kitchen, signed 1st trade edition
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published
1975

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152

Chinese Chopsticks: A Manual of Chinese Cookery and Guide to Peiping Restaurants

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(Food & Drink)
Author
Sia, Mary Li
Headline
Inscribed 1935 Chinese cookbook
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
[Peiping Chronicle]
Date Published
[1935]

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154

A Cookbook: The Stag at Ease

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(Food & Drink)
Author
Squire, Marian, compiler
Headline
Inscribed to Ed Sullivan, w/ his recipe for Irish stew
Publisher
The Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Date Published
1938

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160

Souvenir of the Passive Resistance Movement in South Africa. 1906-1914

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(Gandhi, Manilal Mohandas)
Headline
Signed and inscribed by Manilal M. Ganhdi, 1953
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Published by the Proprietors of "Indian Opinion"
Date Published
1914

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161

The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome

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(Gehenna Press)
Author
Scott, John Anthony, editor
Headline
With Etchings by Thomas Cornell, signed by Baskin
Publisher
The Gehenna Press
Date Published
1964

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163

The Engravings of Eric Gill

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(Gill, Eric)
Author
Skelton, Christopher
Headline
Catalogue raisonné of Eric Gill's engravings
Publisher
Christopher Skelton
Date Published
1983

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164

La Banque Rendueu Facile aux Principales Nations de l'Europe

Author
Giraudeau, Pierre
Headline
Giraudeau on European banking 1741
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Se distribuë chez l'Auteur
Date Published
1741-1743

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166

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Early English Poet:...

Author
Godwin, William
Headline
Godwin's Life of Geoffrey Chaucer 1804
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
T. Davison
Date Published
1804

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168

Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century [with] Mandeville; Or, the Last Words of a Maniac!

Author
Godwin, William
Headline
Godwin's last novel, Mandeville 1st edition
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Printed for Archibald Constable and Co./Effingham Wilson
Date Published
1817-1818

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169

St. Leon [with] Caleb Williams

Author
Godwin, William
Headline
2 finely bound William Godwin volumes
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Colburn and Bentley
Date Published
1831

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171

Faust: A Tragedy

Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Headline
Faust: A Tragedy c.1870 Stroefer & Kirchner
Publisher
Stroefer and Kirchner
Date Published
[1870]

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172

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Headline
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, 1st Carlyle translation
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Oliver & Boyd
Date Published
1824

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176

The Dwindling Party

Author
Gorey, Edward
Headline
Signed by Edward Gorey
Publisher
Random House
Date Published
[1982]

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177

Sapho

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(Gorguet, Auguste-François, illustrator)
Author
Daudet, Alphonse
Headline
Daudet's Sapho, 1/12, plates in multiple states
Publisher
Armand Magnier
Date Published
1897

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178

Ten titles from the Grabhorn Press

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(Grabhorn Press)
Headline
Ten Grabhorn Press titles, 1933-1969
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1933-1969

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179

The Peyote Ritual: Visions and Descriptions

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(Grabhorn Press)
Author
Toke, Monroe Tsa
Headline
The Peyote Ritual Grabhorn Press Ltd Edition
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
[1957]

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180

The Poems of Gray

Author
Gray, Thomas
Headline
Poems of Thomas Gray 1800
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Printed by T. Bensley for F.J. DuRoveray
Date Published
1800

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190

The Mystery of Golf

Author
Haultain, Theodore Arnold
Headline
Haulltain's Mystery of Golf, Bruce Rogers ed.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Date Published
1908

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191

The Origin of the English Drama, Illustrated in its Various Species, viz. Mystery, Morality, Tragedy, and Comedy, by Specimens from our Earliest Writers: With Explanatory Notes

Author
Hawkins, Thomas
Headline
Origin of the English Drama, 1773
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Date Published
1773

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201

The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture & Economy of, & Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery

Author
Horn, Walter & Ernest Born
Headline
The Plan of St. Gall: life in a monastery
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
1979

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211

Five volumes by Henry James

Author
James, Henry
Headline
Five volumes by Henry James
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1902-1910

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212

A Little Tour in France

Author
James, Henry
Headline
Henry James Little Tour France illus. Pennell
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Date Published
1900

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214

Le Gil-Blas françois ou Aventures de Henri Lançon, écrites par lui-même

Author
Jeanmarie, Henri, 1756-1808 [M. Le Marie de Nancy, or Lemarie]
Headline
Adventures of Henri Lancon, 1st edition 1790
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
No publisher
Date Published
1790

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221

Decii Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae Decem et Sex Auli Persii Flacci Satirae Sex

Author
Juvenal and Persius
Headline
Whittington edition of Juvenal and Persius
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
[Excudebat Carolus Whittingham]
Date Published
1845

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225

Works of Charles Kingsley

Author
Kingsley, Charles
Headline
Nicely bound set of Charles Kingsley's Works
Publisher
Macmillan and Co.
Date Published
1881

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227

The Spanish Tragedy: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe. Containing the Lamentable End of Don Horatio, and Belimperia; With the Pitifull Death of Hieronimo

Author
Kyd, Thomas
Headline
Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 1633
Publisher
Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Francis Grove
Date Published
1633

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231

Leaf from Commentarii in Psalmos

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(Leaves, 1250, approx.)
Author
Arnobius the Younger
Headline
Manuscript Bible commentary leaf, c.13th century
Date Published
c.13th-14th century

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239

A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin

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(Leaves, 1583)
Author
Dodoens, Rembert
Headline
A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1977

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240

A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman

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(Leaves, 1611)
Headline
Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1937

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246

Frederic Latimer: or, the History of a Young Man of Fashion

Author
[LeMaistre, John Gustavus]
Headline
Frederic Latimer, 1799 first edition
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Luke Hansard
Date Published
1799

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249

The Arabian Nights Entertainments containing Sixty-five Stories told by Shahrazade....

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(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Burton, Richard F., translator
Headline
Arabian Nights in 4 vols Limited Editions Club
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1954

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253

The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence

Author
Machiavel, Nicholas
Headline
Expanded edition of Farneworth's Machiavelli
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Printed for T. Davies; J. Dodsley; J. Robson et al.
Date Published
[1775]

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259

Le roi de Portugal, conte, suivi des deux achilles, conte dedicatoire, et d'une epitre au juif Hirschel

Author
Martanges, Bonnet de
Headline
Tales of Portugal court w/ reference to Judaism
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
No publisher
Date Published
1788

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283

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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(Moser, Barry, illustrator)
Author
Twain, Mark
Headline
Signed by Barry Moser
Publisher
American Heritage Press / [University of California]
Date Published
[1985]

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285

Two Dissertations. I. on the Graecian Mythology. II. An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Objections to the Chronology of the Olympiads

Author
Musgrave, Samuel
Headline
Musgrave on the antiquity of Olympic Games
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Printed by J. Nichols
Date Published
1782

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288

Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation

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(Nonesuch Press)
Author
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Headline
Montaigne's Essays from Nonesuch Press
Publisher
The Nonesuch Press
Date Published
1931

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290

The Officina Bodoni: The Operation of a Hand-press during the First Six Years of Its Work

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(Officina Bodoni)
Headline
The Officina Bodoni 1929, 1/500
Publisher
Editiones Officinae Bodoni
Date Published
1929

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297

A Political Dictionary: Explaining the True Meaning of Words. Illustrated and Exemplified in the Lives, Morals, Character and Conduct...

Author
Pigott, Charles
Headline
Pigott's Political Dictionary 1796
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Printed for Thomas Greenleaf
Date Published
1796

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The Songs of Bilitis

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(Pogány, Willy, illustrator)
Author
Louÿs, Pierre
Headline
Signed by Willy Pogány
Publisher
Macy-Masius: Publishers
Date Published
[1926]

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302

Exlibris und Signete

Author
Preetorius, Emil
Headline
Collection of German bookplates
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Drei Masken Verlag
Date Published
[1924]

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308

Clarisse Harlowe

Author
Richardson, Samuel
Headline
Clarissa in French illus. Chodowiecki of Berlin
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Paul Barde; Moutard; Merigot
Date Published
1785-1786

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309

The History of Sir Charles Grandison [with] Clarissa [with] Pamela

Author
Richardson, Samuel
Headline
Samuel Richardson's three epistolary novels
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Date Published
1770-1776

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310

In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays

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(Ricketts, Charles)
Author
Symonds, John Addington
Headline
Symonds Key of Blue, Ricketts cover, 1/50 deluxe
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
Elkin Mathews & John Lane and Macmillan
Date Published
1893

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313

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries

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(Riviere & Son)
Author
Leslie, Charles Robert and Tom Taylor
Headline
6 volume fine binding by Riviere & Son
Provenance
Professor George Starr Collection
Publisher
John Murray
Date Published
1865

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317

Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

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(Riviere & Son)
Author
Tristram, Outram W.
Headline
Unusual embossed binding by Riviere & Son
Publisher
Macmillan
Date Published
1914

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322

O Pioneers! [salesman's dummy copy]

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(Rogers, Bruce)
Author
Cather, Willa
Headline
Salesman's dummy of O Pioneers!
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published
1937

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325

Collection Complete des Oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Geneve

Author
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Headline
Complete works of Rousseau, 1783-1789
Publisher
De l'Imprimerie de la Sociéte Littéraire Typographique
Date Published
1783-1789

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326

Printers to the Club: A Portfolio

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(Roxburghe Club)
Author
Linden, James & Jennifer Larson, editors
Headline
Printers to the Club - Roxburghe Club 1986
Publisher
Roxburghe Club
Date Published
1986

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