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 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 1-31 of 31. Previous|1|Next Lot #25 Fanni, ou la nouvelle Paméla, histoire Anglaise AuthorArnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard deHeadlineFanni, ou la nouvelle Pamela 1767ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherChez L'Esclapart & La Veuve DuchesneDate Published1767 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #30 Tea and Brandy Heading(Ballad Broadside)HeadlineTea & Brandy: English Broadside BalladDate Publishedc.1795 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #46 An History of the Civill Warres of England, betweene the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke... Englished by the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Mounmouth [bound with] The Second Part of the History of the Civill Warres... AuthorBiondi, Giovanni FrancescoHeadlineHistory of English Civil Wars 1641-46ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherT.H. and I.D. for Iohn BensonDate Published1641-1646 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$406.25StatusSold Lot #70 Religio Medici cum annotationibus AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineReligio Medici, in Latin 1677 editionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherSumpt. Io. Friderici SpoorDate Published1677 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #85 Lexicon Philosophicum AuthorChauvini, Stephani [Chauvin, Etienne]HeadlineChauvin's Lexicon Philosophicum 1713ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherFranciscus [Frans] HalmaDate Published1713 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #96 Select Trials for Murders, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, and Other Offences: At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey... Heading(Crime)HeadlineSelect Trials at Old Bailey, 1734ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for J. WilfordDate Published1734 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #99 De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophicae AuthorCumberland, RichardHeadlineLatin answer to Hobbes, R. Cumberland 1672ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherTypis E. Flesher, Prostat vero apud Nathanaelem HookeDate Published1672 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #108 Roma Vetus ac Recens Utriusque Aedificiis Illustrata. In multis locis aucta, castigator reddita, indice locupletissimo & figuris aeneis illustrata. Editio Ultima. AuthorDonati, AlessandroHeadlineRoman Views by Alessandro Donati, 1695ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Janssonio-Waesbergios & Joannem WoltersDate Published1695 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #126 Apophthegmatum, sive scite dictorum libri sex AuthorErasmus, DesideriusHeadlineFirst Edition of Erasmus's classical compilationProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherIn Officina FrobenianaDate Published1531 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #129 The Cases of Polygamy, Concubinage, Adultery, Divorce, &c. Seriously and Learnedly Discussed Heading(Ethics)HeadlineCollection of writings on sexual misconduct, 1732ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for T. Payne..., J. Chrichrley..., and W. ShropshireDate Published1732 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #130 The Elements of Euclid, viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. In this Edition, the Errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago Vitiated these Books, are Corrected, and some of Euclid's Demonstrated are Restored AuthorEuclidHeadlineFoulis Press Euclid, 1756PublisherRobert & Andrew FoulisDate Published1756 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #156 The Religion of Nature Delineated Heading(Franklin, Benjamin)AuthorWollaston, WilliamHeadlineTypeset in London by Benjamin Franklin, 1725ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by S. PalmerDate Published1725 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #181 The Poems of Mr. Gray. To Which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason AuthorGray, ThomasHeadlineExtra illustrated set of Thomas Gray's worksProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by A. Ward for J. Dodsley and J. ToddDate Published1775 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #200 Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera AuthorHoraceHeadlineEngraved by John PinePublisherJohannes PineDate Published1733-1737 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #202 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineHume's Natural Religion 1779, second editionProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1779 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #203 Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects AuthorHume, DavidHeadlineDavid Hume's Essays and Treatises 1777ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for T. Cadell, et al.Date Published1777 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #210 Two editions of the Basilikon Doron in Latin and Hungarian AuthorJames I, King of EnglandHeadlineThe Basilikon Doron in Latin & HungarianProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionDate Published1604-1612 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #218 De Virginitate Liber, a Iulio Pogiano Conversus AuthorJohn Chrysostom, SaintHeadlineAldine Press edition of St. Chrysostom On Virginity 1562ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F.Date Published1562 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #220 Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII AuthorJustinus, Marcus JunianusHeadline16th c. edition of Justin's adaptation of TrogusProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Seb. GryphiumDate Published1551 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Lot #226 The Generall Historie of the Turkes... Together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours... Digested into one Continuat Historie untill this Present Yeare 1603 AuthorKnolles, RichardHeadline1st edition Knolles History of the Turks 1603ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1603 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #227 The Spanish Tragedy: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe. Containing the Lamentable End of Don Horatio, and Belimperia; With the Pitifull Death of Hieronimo AuthorKyd, ThomasHeadlineThomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy 1633PublisherPrinted by Augustine Mathewes for Francis GroveDate Published1633 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #238 Fifteen continuous leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540, comprising nearly all of II Chronicles Heading(Leaves, 1540)Headline1540 Great Bible 2nd Book of ChroniclesPublisherThomas Petyt & Robert Redman for Thomas BertheletDate Published1540 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #247 Theatrum pontificiale, oder, Schau-Platz der Brücken und Brücken-Baues... AuthorLeupold, JacobHeadline1st book on bridge-building printed in Germany, 1726ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherZufinden bey dem Autore und Joh. Friedr. Gleditschens... Gedruckt bey Christoph ZunkelDate Published1726 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #254 The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780 Author[Mackenzie, Henry, et al]HeadlineThe Mirror Published at Edinburgh in...1779-80ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for W. Creech; W. Strahan and T. CadellDate Published[1781] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #257 Μαρκου Αντωνινου αυτοκρατορος και φιλοσόφος των εἰς ἑαυτόν, βιβλια ιβ = Marci Antonini Imperatoris & Philosophi, de vita sua Libri XII Graece & Latine... Accessit Marini Proclus Item AuthorMarcus Aurelius, Emperor of RomeHeadlineFirst Greek-Latin edition of the MeditationsProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherSumptibus Francisci de la BottiereDate Published1626 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #281 Tableau du meilleur gouvernement possible, ou l'Utopie AuthorMore, ThomasHeadlineM.T. Rousseau translation of More's Utopia 1780ProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherAlex JombertDate Published1780 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #307 The Seven Famous Cartons [sic] of Raphael Urbin, Drawn at the Command of Pope Leo the 10th as Patterns for Tapestry... in 1707... AuthorRaphael [Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino]HeadlineRare engraving of Raphael "Cartoons" 1720Date Published[1707]-1720 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #323 The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, Called The Magnificent AuthorRoscoe, WilliamHeadlineRoscoe's Life of Lorenzo de' Medici The MagnificentPublisherPrinted by J. M'CreeryDate Published1795 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #332 Sixteenth-century sammelband with three titles Heading(Sammelband)Headline16th c. German sammelband, 3 Latin titlesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherEx Officina Paltheniana, sumptibus viduae Petri FischeriDate Published1596 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #375 Cerebri Anatome: Cui Accessit. Nervorum Descriptio et Usus AuthorWillis, ThomasHeadlineThomas Willis on brain anatomy, with 16 platesProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherApud Gerbrandum SchagenDate Published1666 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #381 Walking Amusements for Chearful Christians; or Trades Spiritualized: To Which are Added, Various Pieces, In Prose and Verse: With a Map of the Roads to Happiness and Misery AuthorWright, GeorgeHeadlineGeorge Wright's Walking Amusements w/ mapProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted for J. BucklandDate Published1775 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next