PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views, 849, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025
Page Size: 406 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Ryan, William Redmond

Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines

London 1850 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
52 Seyd, Ernest

California and its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant

London 1858 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
53 Seyd, Ernest

California and its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant

London 1858 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
54

Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory 1915

San Francisco 1915 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
55 Evans, Taliesin

Illustrated Hand Book of California and San Francisco

San Francisco [1894] USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
56 Hill, Andrew P[utnam] and Lindley Eddy

Two photographs of Redwoods

1919-c. 1925 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
57 McCarthy, John Russell, editor

California Series

Los Angeles 1928-1930 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
58 Muir, John, ed.

Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope

New York and San Francisco [1888] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 750.00
59

Ten cartes-de-visite of William Bull Reeve and his family

c.1860s USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
60 Whitney, J. D.

Geological Survey of California. Geology. Volume I. Report of Progress and Synopsis of the Field-Work, From 1860 to 1864.

[Philadelphia] 1865 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
61 Camp, Walter

American Football

New York 1891 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
62

Gordon's Invalid Chairs

Toledo, Ohio [c.1910] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
63 Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de

Journal of a Voyage to North America

Chicago 1923 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
64

Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society of New York, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864

New York 1864-1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
65

12 Civil War bills and notes

1861-1864 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
66

Five state of Arkansas War Bonds

Little Rock 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
67 Maxwell, James Robert

Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama

New York 1926 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
68 Scott, William Forse

The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers from Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865 [with] Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers 1861-1865, an Appendix to "The Story of a Cavalry Regiment."

New York 1893-1902 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
69

Sixth Wisconsin Battery broadside

Chicago c.1865 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
70

Thirty-eight speeches by United States Senators and Representatives

1860-1861 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
71

Two volumes on early Kansas regiments

1867-1902 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
72 Clark, Erland Fenn

Truncheons: Their Romance and Reality

London 1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
73 Colton, J.H.

Colton's Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book through the New England and Middle States and the Canadas: Containing the Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel... Compiled by Richard S. Fisher, M.D.

New York 1856 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
74

Document signed by Noah Phelps, Judge of Court Probate

1805 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
75 Cooper, James Fenimore

The History of the Navy of the United States of America

Philadelphia 1839 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 531.25
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    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.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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