PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views , 828, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024

Page Size: 558 items in 23 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	Bancroft, Hubert Howe	The Works of Hubert Howe - Vols. XXXIV and XXXV	San Francisco	1888	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
127	Willis, Nathaniel Parker	American Scenery	London	[1840]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
128	Wolstenholme, Gordon, editor	Man And His Future	London	1963	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 937.50
129	Blake, William P.	Report of a Geological Reconnaissance in California	New York	1858	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
130		File copy of correspondence between Bolivian officials of newly-independent Bolivia regarding growing tensions with Brazil	Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia	27 de Abril 1826	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
131	Agache, Alfred	Cicade do Rio de Janeiro: Extensao - Remodelacao - Embellezamento	Paris	[1930]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 343.75
132	Dreys, Nicolao	Noticia descriptiva da provincia de Rio-Grande de S. Pedro do sul, Contendo, alem de topographia physica e politica e de um ensaio de estatistica local...	Rio de Janeiro	1839	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 437.50
133	Henderson, James	A History of The Brazil; Comprising its Geography, Commerce, Colonization, Aboriginal Inhabitants	London	1821	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 437.50
134	[Burgess, Gelett, et al.]	The Lark	San Francisco	1895-97	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
135	[Taylor, Zachary]	Message of the President of the United States, Communicating information...in relation to California and New Mexico	Washington, D.C.	1850	USD 400.00 - 200.00	USD 343.75
136		Chinese Immigration: Its Social, Moral and Political Effect. Report of the California State Senate of its Special Committee on Chinese Immigration	Sacramento	1878	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
137		Telephone Directory. Contra Costa County	[San Francisco]	1935	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
138		Stock certificate for Eureka Quartz Mining Company, 1853	Eldorado County, CA	1853	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
139		Five photograph of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California	No place	c.1900	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
140	Graham, Rob. E., County Clerk	Index to Registration Affidavits, County of Marin, State of California, November 1930 (cover title)	San Rafael	1930	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
141		Original panorama photograph of Mendocino, California	No place	c.1900	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
142		Monrovia "Gem of the Foothills" California	Monrovia, CA	[c.1907]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
143	Brainard, William Newell	Letter from W.N. Brainard in Dowagiac, Michigan, to his business partner Ransom Morehouse in Sacramento, California, describing the start of an overland trip to California with a herd of cattle, and other matters	Dowagiac, Michigan	April 14,1853	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
144	Hunt, F.D., compiler and publisher	Palo Alto and Stanford University Directory - 1897-98	Palo Alto	1897	USD 800.00 - 400.00	USD 500.00
145		Eleven Palo Alto stock farm pamphlets		1894-1903	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
146		Placer County, California: The Land of Sunshine, Fruit & Flowers	[Auburn]	1913	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
147		The May Flower...Prepared by E.A. Bethurun & Co.	Redlands, CA	[c.1916]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
148	McKinney, Joseph, Sheriff	Notification of a Sheriff's Sale of a house in Sacramento, to satisfy a Writ of Execution	Sacramento, CA	April 26, 1850	USD 400.00 - 200.00	USD 250.00
149		Report of the Secretary of War, in Further Compliance with the Resolution of the Senate Calling for Copies on the Geology and Topography of California	Washington, D.C.	1850	USD 300.00 - 150.00	USD 375.00
150		Membership certificate in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, with bird's-eye view	San Francisco	1911	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000

Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
March 20, 2025

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.

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