PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian Books with Illustrated & Children's Books, and the Dr. Richard R. Rutter Collection of Oz , 855, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 22, 2026 - January 22, 2026
Page Size: 391 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Picart, Bernard

Ceremonies et Costumes Religieuses de tous les peuples du monde representeees par des Figures dessinees de la main de Bernard Picart: Avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses. Tome Cinquieme, qui contient les Ceremonies des Moha

Amsterdam 1787 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
102

Five 17th century English Plays

London 1692-1695 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,875.00
103

Seven 18th century English plays

London; Dublin 1706-1797 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
104 Plutarch

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea

London 1610-1612 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
105 Plutarch

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea

London 1612/1610 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 875.00
106 Buckingham, John Sheffield Duke of

The Works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave...and Duke of Buckingham

London 1723 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
107 Drayton, Michael

England's Heroical Epistles, Written in Imitation of the Stile and Manner of Ovid's Epistles with Annotations

London 1737 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
108 Homer

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek

London 1725-1726 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
109 Porta, Giovanni Battista della

De i miracoli et maravigliosi effetti da la natura prodotti. Libri IIII

Venice 1566 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
110 Brandt, Sebastian

Printed leaf from Ship of Fools

1509 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
111

The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Several Pieces Never Before Published. A New Edition Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. In Six Volumes.

London 1786 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
112 Schenk, Pieter

Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta

[Holland and West Frisia] 1702 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 17,500.00
113 Sophocles

[Tragedies of Sophocles, with Scholia of Demetrius Triclinius] Sophokleous Tragodiai... Dimitriou tou Trikliniou peri metron ois exrisato Sophoklis, Peri sximaton, Sxolia

Paris 1552-1553 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,875.00
114 [West, Gilbert]

A Canto of the Fairy Queen. Written by Spenser. Never before Published.

London 1739 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
115 Strada, Famiano

Famiani Stradae Romani e Societate Iesu Eloquentia Bipartitia...

Oxford 1662 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
116 Temple, Sir John

The Irish Rebellion: or An History of the Beginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October...1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ens

London 1646 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
117 Tench, Major [Capt. Watkin]

Letters written in France, to a Friend in London, between the Month of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795

London 1796 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
118 Thucydides

Thoukudidou Peri tou Peloponnisiakou Polemou Biblia Okto = Thycydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo

Biponti [1788-89] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
119 Tillotson, Dr. John

The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith...

London 1707 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
120 Cibber, Colley

A journey to London. Being Part of a Comedy. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, Knt. and Printed after His own Copy: Which (since his Decease) has been made an Intire Play, By Mr. Cibber, And call'd, The Provok'd Husband, &c.

London 1728 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
121 Vertot, Abbot de

The Revolutions of Portugal. Written in French by the Abbot de Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions. Done into English from the last French Edition.

London 1724 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
122 Virgil

[The thirteene bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelue being the worke of the diuine poet Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphaeus Vegius...]

[London]; [Cambridge] [1596] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
123 Walker, John

An Attempt Towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England...in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion: Occasion'd by the Ninth Chapter (now the Second Volume) of Dr. Calamy's Abridgment of the Life of Mr.

London 1714 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
124 Walton, Isaac & Charles Cotton

The Compleat Angler: or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. In Two Parts...

London 1759 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
125 Weever, John

Ancient Funerall Monuments with in the united Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and Ilands adiacent; with the dissolved Monasteries therein contained; their Founders and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred. As also the Death and buria

London 1631 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 531.25
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
  • 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
  • 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:
  • Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000