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	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
353	Hoerner, Sighard	Fluid Dynamic Drag [with] Fluid Dynamic Lift	[Brick Town, NJ]	1965; 1975	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
354		Photograph album of Ikebana Misho-ryu Sasaoka	Kyoto	1938	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
355		L'Espagne et les Juifs	Madrid	1949	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
356		Comitiva Regia en el Casamiento de S.M. el Rey de Espana Don Alfonso XII con S.A.I. y R., la Archiduquesa Dona Maria Cristina de Austria...	Madrid	1883	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
357	Krueger, John R.	An Index to the Written Mongolian Words in Vladimirtsov's Comparative Mongolian Grammar	Washington, D.C.	1960	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
358	Livingstone, David	Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the E	London	1857	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
359	Maus, L. Mervin	An Army Officer on Leave in Japan: including a sketch of Manila and environment; Philippine insurrection of 1896-7, Dewey's battle of Manila Bay and a description of Formosa	Chicago	1911	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
360	Mazuchelli, Elizabeth Sarah	The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them. Being a Narrative of Two Years' Residence in the Eastern Himalayas and Two Months Tour into the Interior. By a Lady Pioneer. Illustrated by Herself	London	1876	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 531.25
361		Three photo albums from a Mediterranean Cruise aboard the S.S. George Washington, 1922	[New York]	c.1922	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,062.50
362		7 Volumes on Mountaineering History		1914-1957	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
363	Thompson, William	The Natural History of Ireland.	London	1849-1856	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
364	Peary, Robert E.	Northward over the "Great Ice": A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897	New York	1898	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
365		Le Pele-Mele: Semanario festivo parisiense	Barcelona, Spain	1903-1904	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
366	[Pinheiro, Rafael, ed.]	O Antonio Maria	Lisbon, Portugal	1879-1885	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
367	Perry, Matthew Calbraith	Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy...	New York	1856	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
368	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 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
369	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 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
370	Richardson, James	Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846.	London	1848	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 687.50
371	Breton De La Martiniere, Jean Baptiste Joseph	La Russie, Ou Moeurs, Usages, Et Costumes Des Habitans De Toutes Les Provinces De Cet Empire...	Paris	1813	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 937.50
372	Sanger, Eugen	Space Flight: Countdown For The Future	New York:	[1965]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
373	Schoberl, Frederic, editor	The World in Miniature	London	[1821]	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 6,250.00
374	Sharpe, W.	At the Court at Kensington the 30th Day of June, 1756. Present the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council	Edinburgh	1756	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
375	Solano, Francisco Ignacio	Nova instruccao musical, ou theorica pratica da musica rythmica, com a qual se forma, e ordena sobre os mais solidos fundamentos hum Novo Methodo...	Lisbon	1764	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
376	Noskov, V., artist [Noskov, B.]	Soviet propaganda poster	Moscow	1984	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
377		Large collection of stereoviews with Stereoscope		c. 1904	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 375.00

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.