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

Auction Details

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
51	Killion, Tom and Gary Snyder	The High Sierra of California by Tom Killion with Excerpts from the Journals of Gary Snyder and John Muir	Santa Cruz	2000	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 11,250.00
52	Killion, Tom	The Coast of California: Point Reyes to Point Sur	Santa Cruz & Mill Valley	1979	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,812.50
53	Luther, Martin	[Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M...	null	1557-1579	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
54	Lyon, Danny	Blessing 1966	null	Negative: 1966; print: 1984	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
55	Lyon, Danny	Cal and Eileen (both dead), 1966	null	Negative: 1966; later print	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
56	Lyon, Danny	Detroit Outlaws 1967	null	Negative: 1967; later print	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
57	Lyon, Danny	Milwaukee Wisc. 1966	null	Negative: 1966; print: 1982	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
58	Machiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo Cataneo	The Arte of Warre...set foorth in English by Peter Withorne [with] Certaine Waies for the Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also fugures of certaine new plattes for fort	London	1588	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 3,750.00
59	Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate, Herbert Horne, Selwyn Image, William Blake, et al.	The Century Guild Hobby Horse - Issues 1-28, complete	London	1886-1892	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
60	Stampa, Josepho [Giuseppe] Maria	Autograph mathematical manuscript in Latin and Italian entitled De Sectionibus Conicis. Libris Quator	[Como, Italy]	c. 1715	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
61	Munster, Sebastian	Die Neuwen Inseln / so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India lingen.	Basle	1550	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 12,500.00
62	Williamson, George Charles, compiler	Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan	London	1910	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
63	Morris, Wright	Model T with California Top, 1947	null	Negative: 1947; later print	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
64	M[arkham, G[ervase]	The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to Cure them	[London]	[c. 1712]	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 8,750.00
65	null	National Geographic archive from the collection of Dr. Allen B. "Buck" Catlin largely purchased from Edwin C. Buxbaum	Washington D.C.	1888-2010's	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Not Sold
66	Nostradamus, Michel de	The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning	London	1672	USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	Not Sold
67	Pasternak, Boris	Poverkh Bar Erov [Over the Barriers]	Moscow	1917	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
68	Zervos, Christian, editor	Pablo Picasso - catalogue raisonne	Paris	1932-1975	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 3,750.00
69	Oexmelin, Alexandre Olivier	Histoire des Avanturiers qui se Sont Signalez dans les Indes...	Paris	1688	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
70	Plato	De Legibus [with] Epistole [The Laws and Epistles]	[Florence]	[1485]	USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00	Not Sold
71	Portlock, Nathaniel	A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon	London	1789	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
72	Powell, William	The Anarchist Cookbook	New York	[1971]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
73	Quetelet, A[dolphe]	Sur l'homme et le developpement de ses facultes, ou Essai de physique sociale	Paris	1835	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
74	Rand, Silas Tertius, translator	[Th]e Buk ov Djenesis	Bath, England	1857	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
75	Rousseau, J[ean] J[acques]	Les Confessions de J. J. Rousseau, Suivies des Reveries du Promeneur Solitarie	Geneva	1782	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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