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
151	Heap, Gwinn Harris	Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853	Philadelphia	1854	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
152	Heller, Helen West	Migratory Urge: Wood-cut Poems	Chicago	1928	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,125.00
153	Henry, Alexander and David Thompson	New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest. The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson. 1799-1814	New York	1897	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
154		Ten engraved bank checks from the Banking House of L.H. Hershfield & Bro.	Helena, MT	1866-1874	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
155	Silveira de Braganza, Rondal Louis, editor	The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages	San Diego	1974-1983	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
156	Bolton, Herbert Eugene, editor	Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta: A Contemporary Account of the Beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona, by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Pioneer Missionary, Explorer, Cartographer, and Ranchman, 1683-1711. Published for the first tim	Cleveland	1919	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
157	Lake, Stuart N.	Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal	Boston	1931	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 593.75
158	Lake, Stuart N.	Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal	Boston	1931	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 375.00
159	Lee, Samuel Phillips	Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U.S. Brig Dolphin...	Washington	1854	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
160	Brooks, Noah	First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Edition of Lewis and Clark in 1803-4-5	New York	1901	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
161	Moulton, Gary E., editor	The Journals [with] Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition	Lincoln	[1986-2001]	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,625.00
162	MacKenzie, Sir Alexander	Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country	Philadelphia	1802	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 343.75
163	Macomb, John Navarre and John Strong Newberry	Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859	Washington	1876	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,000.00
164	McKelvey, Susan Delano	Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1790-1850	Jamaica Plain, MA	1955	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
165	Michener, James A.	Ventures in Editing [with] The Quality of Life	Huntington Beach;	1995	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
166	Milner, Joe E., & Earle R. Forrest	California Joe, Noted Indian Fighter	Caldwell, Idaho	1935	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 3,125.00
167	Milner, Joe E., & Earle R. Forrest	California Joe, Noted Indian Fighter	Caldwell, Idaho	1935	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
168	Lock, C.G. Warnford	Practical Gold-Mining: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Origin and Occurence of Gold-Bearing Gravels, Rocks, and Ores, and the Methods by which the Gold is Extracted	London	1889	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
169	Mullan, John	Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains	New York	1865	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
170	Raymond, Rossiter W.	Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains	Washington	1870	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
171	Watkins, Carleton E.	North Bloomfield Hydraulic Mines, Nevada Co., Cal.	San Francisco	c.1871	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 406.25
172	Dimsdale, Thomas Josiah	The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains	Virginia City, M.T.	1882	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 375.00
173		Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of The Thirty-Third Congress. Part II	Washington	1854	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
174	Bertrand, Louis A.	Memoires d'un Mormon	Paris	c.1862	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
175	Cannon, George Q.	The Life of Nephi, The Son of Lehi	Salt Lake City	1888	USD 200.00 - 300.00	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.