PBA Galleries: Rare Books, Manuscripts and More! A PBA Platinum Sale, 850, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
Page Size: 100 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Watson, James and Francis Crick

Print of DNA signed by Watson & Crick

null No date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
27 Ellis, W[illiam]

An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and Ameri

London 1782 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,812.50
28 [Espinosa y Tello, Jose]

Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el ano de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca [with] Atlas para el Viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana...

Madrid 1802 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
29 Keats, John

The Eve of St. Agnes

London 1900 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
30 Euclid

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners

London 1847 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
31 Faust, Henry W.

Map of the City and County of San Francisco California

San Francisco 1892 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
32 Foxe, Luke

Foxe's map of the Arctic

London [c.1635] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
33 Gilpin, Laura

Lillian Gish as Camille Central City Festival 1932

Santa Fe 1932 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
34 Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

London [1908] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
35 Grey, Romer

The Cruise of the "Fisherman"

No place [1928] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
36 Grey, Zane

Tales of Coral Reefs

No place [1930s?] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
37 Grey, Zane

Tuna

No place [c.1918?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
38 Gros, Henri Ferdinand

Le Transvaal: Afrique Australe

[Pretoria?] c.1888-90 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
39 Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

New York 1881 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
40 Harvey, William

Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione.

Rotterdam 1660 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
41 Haynes, F. Jay

Portland Oregon

Fargo, Dakota Territory c.1890's USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
42 null

Archive of photographs and letters relating to the Hills Brothers

[San Francisco] [c.1870s] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
43 Holmes, Dwight C.

Landscape

[Texas] [1944] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
44 Homer

[The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets]

[London] [1611?; Conjectured publication date from STC] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
45 Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare's Sonnets

[Boston] 1897 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
46 Ireland, Samuel

Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; With Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Vicinity

London 1801-02 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
47 Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

New York 1916 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
48 Ricci, Paolo

De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem I cabalistae: seu allegorisan num eruditionem

Pavia 1510 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
49 Kant, Immanuel

The Principles of Critical Philosophy, Selected From the Works of Emmanuel Kant... And Expounded by James Sigismund Beck. Translated From the German by an Auditor of the Latter

London 1797 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
50 Morris, William

The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men

[Hammersmith] [1894] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,125.00
  • Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T). The Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: DALVIMART, Octavien ou d’ALVIMAR(T)]. CLARK. The Military Costume of Turkey
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: HOMMAIRE DE HELL, Ignace-Xavier. LAURENS, Jules. Voyage en Turquie et en Perse
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: POSTEL, Guillaume. De la République des Turc
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PREZIOSI, Amadeo. Stamboul. Souvenir d’Orient.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES. EMPIRE OTTOMAN.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant T. Emile. L'Art Arabe
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: PRISSE D'AVENNES. Histoire de l'art Egyptie
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: BESANCENOT, Jean. Costumes et types du Maroc.
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: COSTUMES OTTOMANS. Suite de figures ottomanes à l’aquarelle
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT, contes arabes
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: SCHLEGEL, Hermann et A. H. VERSTER van WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie - Planches
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11: THEVENOT, Melchisédec. Relation de divers voyages curieux
    Gros & Delettrez, Feb. 11:
  • Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 11. Blaeu's Superb World Map on a Polar Projection (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 36. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 49. One of the First Lunar Globes to Show the Far Side of the Moon (1963) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 5. The First World Map with Lavish Allegorical Vignettes of the Continents (1594) Est. $15,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 55. Anti-British Propaganda Map with Churchill as an Octopus (1942) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 197. One of the Most Influential Maps of Westward Expansion (1846) Est. $9,500 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 10. Scarce Pitt Edition of Carte-a-Figures Map of the World (1680) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 220. A Fine, Early Rendering of San Francisco (1874) Est. $2,200 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 707. Hand-Colored Image of the Presentation of Jesus with Gilt Highlights (1450) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 80. One of the Most Important Maps Perpetuating the Myth of the Island of California (1680) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 725. Homann's Atlas Featuring 26 Folio-Sized Maps in Original Color (1715) Est. $4,500 - $5,500
    Old World Auctions (Feb 11):
    Lot 169. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,750 - $6,000