PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views, 853, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025

Page Size: 467 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
227	Manuscript letter from Thomas M. Robbins to [James] Scott regarding horses commandeered by American troops	Santa Barbara, CA	1849	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 625.00
228	Manuscript mortgage agreement Santa Barbara, 1855	Santa Barbara, CA	1855	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
229	Three manuscripts from Santa Barbara county related to a contract for the delivery of cattle	Santa Barbara, CA	1857-1867	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
230	Three manuscripts from Santa Barbara county, two property deeds and one handwritten letter		1874-1899	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
231	Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba	Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba	1869	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
232	Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba	Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba	1867	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
233	Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba	Cuba	c.1860s	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
234	Municipal list of Chinese indentured servants still waiting for contract renewal	Matanzas, Cuba	1873	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
235	Municipal list of Chinese indentured servants waiting for contract renewal	Matanzas, Cuba	1872	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
236	Primitive contract in Chinese and Spanish for Chinese indentured servant in Cuba	Havana, Cuba	1860	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
237	Registry of Asian and Yucatan indentured workers in Cuba	Cuba	c. 1860	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
238	Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
239	Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
240	Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
241	Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
242	Document recording the arrival of African "bozales" slaves to Cuba	Havana, Cuba	1798	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
243	Expediente of African slave in Cuba on trial for beating another slave	Cuba	1848-1849	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
244	List of African Cuban slaves who have left the jurisdiction 1866	Cardenas, Cuba	1866	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
245	List of Chinese cimarrones held in slave depository in Matanzas, Cuba	Matanzas, Cuba	1878	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
246	Manuscript document discussing the sale of 12 year old African slave	Cuba	1872	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
247	Manuscript document discussing the sale of Dolores, an African slave	Cuba	1869	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
248	Testimony of moreno asking to be paid	Matanzas, Cuba	1881	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
249	Testimony of moreno, Dionisio [with] Expediente of Dionisio	Cuba	1883	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
250	Three logs of slaves captured in the Spanish Antilles	Cuba	c. 1805	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
251	Archive of documents from the Trinidad, Cuba, military hospital during the Cuban War of Independence, with ledgers and invoices for purchases	Trinidad, Cuba	1895-1899	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,625.00

Books & Autographs
Wednesday 25 March

Koller, Mar. 25: KAFKA, FRANZ, SCHRIFTSTELLER. Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Prag, 20. Oktober [19]15. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zwei eigenhändige Briefe an Ernst Gabor Straus, unterschrieben "A.E" bzw. "A. Einstein". [Princeton], [19]45. und [1950]. CHF 30,000-40,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAIS, MUTTER VON NAPOLEON III. Album aus ihrem Besitz mit 69 Aquarellen und Pinselzeichnungen in Sepia oder Grau… CHF 14,000-18,000.

Koller, Mar. 25: ZOOLOGIE - ORNITHOLOGIE - Seligmann, Johann Michael. Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame Vogelen. Teile 1-8 (von 9) in 2 Bänden. Mit 421 prächtig altkolorierten Kupfertafeln. CHF 14,000-20,000

Koller, Mar. 25: BOTANIK - Berlèse, Lorenzo und Johann Jakob Jung. Iconographie du genre camellia... 3 Bände. Mit 300 Farbstichtafeln "a la poupée.” Paris, [1839-]1841-1843. CHF 12,000-18,000.
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.