PBA Galleries: Western Americana, with Gold Rushers, God-Fearers, Gunslingers, and Anglers., 847, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Promotional brochure for Eureka Villa in Los Angeles County, California	[Los Angeles]	1926	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
2	Carroll, John M.	Buffalo Soldiers West	[Ft. Collins, CO]	[1971]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
3	Adney, Tappan	The Klondike Stampede	New York and London	1900	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
4		Archive of Klondike mining with photos, manuscripts, and records		c. 1898-1904	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 5,000.00
5	Broke, George	With Sack and Stock in Alaska	London	1891	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
6	Haskell, William B.	Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields. A Thrilling Narrative of Personal Experiences and Adventures... Life in the Gold Mines and Camps	Hartford	1898	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 225.00
7	Hitchcock, Mary E.	Two Women in the Klondike: The Story of a Journey to the Gold-Fields of Alaska	New York and London	1899	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
8	Ladue, Joseph	Klondyke Facts Being a Complete Guide Book to the Gold Regions of the Great Canadian Northwest Territories and Alaska	New York	[1897]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 375.00
9	Ladue, Joseph	Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest Territories and Alaska	New York	[1897]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 406.25
10	Murray, Alexander Hunter	Journal of the Yukon 1847-48	Ottawa	1910	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
11		Panoramic View of Denali, Alaska		c. 2000	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
12		Postcard album documenting the Yukon Gold Rush 1906-1908		1906-1908	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
13	Purdy, Anne	Dark Boundary	New York	[1954]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
14		Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1867	Washington	1869	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
15	Rickard, T.A.	Through the Yukon and Alaska	San Francisco	1909	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
16	Spurr, Josiah Edward	Through The Yukon Gold Diggings. A Narrative of Personal Travel	Boston	1900	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
17	Turner, L. M. with Edward W. Nelson	Natural History of Alaska [with] Report Upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska Between the Years 1877 and 1881	Washington	1886-1887	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
18	Woollen, William Watson	The Inside Passage to Alaska: 1792-1920. With an account of the North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet...	Cleveland	1924	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
19	Amsden, Charles Avery	Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History	Albuquerque	1949	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
20	Dutton, Clarence E.	Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas	Washington	1882	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
21	Ganzhorn, Jack	Collection of twelve original typescripts that were turned into his autobiography, I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona		c. 1920-1959	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
22	Morgan, Dale L., ed.	The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with explorations beyond the Continental Divide, recorded in the diaries and letters of William H. Ashley and his contempor	Denver	1964	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
23	Morgan, Dale, editor	The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia... 1822-1838	Denver	1964	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
24		Oakland: The Sensible Six	Pontiac, MI	[c.1909]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
25	Vanaman, Elton W.	Manuscript diary of a transcontinental auto trip in 1921		1921	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.