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
201 Clayton, J.M.

[Gen. Riley's Civil Correspondence. California.]

[Washington, D.C.] [1850] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
202 Lee, Daniel and Joseph H. Frost

Ten Years in Oregon

New York 1844 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
203 Rush, Richard

A Residence at the Court of London

London 1833 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
204 Gilbert, Frank T.

Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon

Portland, OR 1882 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
205

Report of the Secretary of War Communicating The Several Pacific Railroad Explorations

Washington 1855 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
206

Archive of Photographs Documenting the Construction of the Lanpher Reservoir to Provide Water to Pittsburgh

Allegheny County 1913-1914 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
207

Photograph album circa 1910's - Oklahoma and Montana

[c. 1910s-1920s] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
208

Photograph album of a trip through British Columbia, the Yukon, and Alaska

1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
209 Thayer, William M.

The Martyr Presidents [cover title]: From Pioneer Home to the White House. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination, Death. [bound with] From Log-Cabin to the White House. Life of James A. Garfield: Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassin

Norwich, CT 1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
210 Fish, Daniel

Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln Compiled by Daniel Fish

New York [1906] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
211 Sandburg, Carl

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years

New York [1926] USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
212 Seward, William H.

Autograph letter signed by Lincoln's Secretary of State to the German noble who served in the Civil War

Washington, DC February 20, 1862 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
213 Strohm, Isaac

Letter from a drama-loving Washington clerk critiquing the new Ford's Theater and its owner

Washington, DC February 10, 1862 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
214 Thayer, William M.

The Pioneer Boy, and How He Became President

Boston 1863 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
215

Three U.S. presidential voter tickets

[1848-1864] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
216 Grant, Ulysses S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

New York 1885-86 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
217 Roosevelt, Theodore

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

New York 1914 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
218 Hoover, Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover

De Re Metallica, translation of Georgius Agricola

London 1912 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
219

Three items relating to the American Youth Congress

New York 1936-1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
220 Caro, Robert A.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Means of Ascent

New York 1990 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
221

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Master of the Senate

New York 2002 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
222

2 books by Gerald Ford and Bob Dole

New York 1987-2001 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
223 Ford, Gerald R.

A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford

[New York] [1979] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
224 Valdez, David, compiler

George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile

College Station, TX [1997] USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
225

The Comforts of Travel: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway

[Chicago] [1908] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.