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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
102 Peck, John Mason

A Gazetteer of Illinois in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of Each County; and a Particular Description of Each Town, Settlement, Stream, Prairie, Bottom, Bluff, etc. Alphabetically Arranged

Jacksonville, IL 1834 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
103 Jackson, William Henry

The Old Carreta, Laguna N.M.

Denver c.1875 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
104 Kennedy, Robert F.

The Enemy Within

New York [1960] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
105 Norris, Charles G.

Seed: A Novel of Birth Control

Garden City, NY 1930 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
106 Bolton, Herbert Eugene, editor

Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta: A Contemporary Account of the Beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona, by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Pioneer Missionary, Explorer, Cartographer, and Ranchman, 1683-1711. Published for the first tim

Cleveland 1919 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
107 Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer

New York 1936 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
108 Eastlack, Francis F. and Vespasian Ellis

Parody ballad of the Know Nothing secret society, and a short-lived newspaper published after it went public as the American Party

Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 1854-1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
109 Krakel, Dean F.

The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War. With Personal Narratives, Newspaper Accounts and Official Documents and Testimonies

[Laramie, WY] [1954] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
110 Lanchester, F.W.

Aircraft In Warfare; The Dawn of the Fourth Arm

London 1916 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
111 Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark

History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean performed during the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the

New York 1893 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
112

Two 1793 lottery tickets, one signed by Founding Father Daniel Carroll

[1793-1798] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
113 Livingston, Edward

System Of Penal Law for The State of Louisiana, Consisting of a Code of Crimes and Punishments, A Code of Procedures, A Code of Evidence, A Code of Reform and Prison Discipline; A Book of Definitions... To Which are Prefixed a Preliminary Report on the Pl

Philadelphia [1833] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
114 Ludlow, William

Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return, Made in the Summer of 1875

Washington 1876 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
115 Lyell, Charles

A Second Visit to the United States of North America

New York 1849 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
116 Marcou, Jules

Geology of North America; with Two Reports on the Prairies of Arkansas and Texas, The Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada of California.

Zurich 1858 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,062.50
117 Marquez, Don Pietro

Esercitazione architettoniche sopra gli spettacoli degli antichi con appendice sul bello in generale

Rome 1808 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
118

Two post-Civil War proposals to trigger rainfall by detonating explosives in the sky

1880; 1892 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 531.25
119 Neucheze, Capitan de

Tratado teorico y practico de fortification pasajera y del ataque y defensa de los puestos de campana con un resumen de la pequenas operaciones de la guerra para uso de los oficiales y sargentos...

Mexico 1854 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
120 Mullan, John

Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains

New York 1865 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,375.00
121 Raymond, Rossiter W.

Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains

Washington 1870 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
122

Tables of the Value of Gold and Silver per Ounce Troy, at Different Degrees of Fineness. Also, Tables Showing the Net Returns from Gold and Silver of Different Fineness, When Made in Coin or Fine Metal...

San Francisco 1867 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
123

Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Presented at the Forty-Third Annual Meeting, Held in Troy, New York, Sept. 7-10, 1852

Boston 1852 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
124 [Leeson, Michael A., ed.]

History of Montana, 1739-1885. A History of Its Discovery and Settlement, Social and Commercial Progress, Mines and Miners, Agriculture and Stock-Growing, Churches, Schools and Societies, Indians and Indian Wars, Vigilantes, Courts of Justice, Newspaper P

Chicago 1885 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
125

The Montana Magazine of History

[Helena] 1951-2005 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
126 Bertrand, Louis A.

Memoires d'un Mormon

Paris c.1862 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.