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
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
  • 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