PBA Galleries: The Klaus Werner Collection of Pacific Voyages, 856, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Sparks, Jared

The Life of John Ledyard, The American Traveller, Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence

Cambridge, MA 1828 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 406.25
177 Sparks, Jared

The Life of John Ledyard, The American Traveller, Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence

Cambridge, MA 1828 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
178 Sparks, Jared

The Life of John Ledyard, The American Traveller, Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence

Cambridge, MA 1828 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
179 Stewart, C.S.

A Visit to the South Seas, in the United States' Ship Vincennes, During the Years 1829 and 1830; With Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena

New York 1831 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
180 Taylor, Fitch W.

The Flag Ship: or, A Voyage Around the World, in the United States Frigate Columbia; attended by her consort the Sloop of War John Adams, and bearing the broad pennant of Commodore George C. Read

New York 1842 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
181 Taylor, Fitch W.

A Voyage Around the World, in the United States Frigate Columbia: Attended by Her Consort the Sloop of War John Adams, and Bearing the Broad Pennant of Commodore George C. Read

New Haven and New York 1842 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
182 Taylor, Fitch W.

A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate Columbia; Attended by Her Consort The Sloop of War John Adams, and Commanded by Commodore George C. Read.

New Haven, CT 1850 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
183 Turnbull, John

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804 in which the Author Visited Madeira, the Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, the English Settlements of Botany Bay and Norfolk Island; and the Principal Islands in the Pacific Ocean...

London 1813 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 812.50
184 [Vancouver, George]

Atlas du Voyage de Vancouver

[Paris] [1799] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,750.00
185 Vancouver, George

Voyage de Decouvertes, a l'Ocean Pacifique du Nord, et Autour du Monde, Entrepris par ordre de sa Majeste Britannique; execute, pendant les annees 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 et 1795, par le calitaine George Vancouver; Traduid de l'anglais par P.F. Henry

Paris An X [1802] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
186 Vancouver, George

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of

London 1798 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,687.50
187 [Vollmer, Carl Gottfried Wilhelm]

Das Meer, seine Bewohner und seine Wunder Seitenstuck zu K. F. V. Hoffmann's Erde und ihre Bewohner

Stuttgart 1837 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
188 Warren, T. Robinson

Dust and Foam; or, Three Oceans and Two Continents; Being Ten Years' Wanderings in Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands, The East and West Indies, China, Philippines, Australia and Polynesia

New York 1859 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
189 Warriner, Francis

Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World, During the Years 1831-34. Embracing the Attack on Quallah Battoo, With Notices of Scenes, Manners, Etc. in Different Parts of Asia, South America, and the Islands of the Pacific

New York 1835 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 406.25
190 Beale, Thomas

The Natural History of the Sperm Whale...to which is added, a sketch of a South--Sea Whaling Voyage

London 1839 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,062.50
191 Bennett, Frederick Debell

Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe, from the Year 1833 to 1836. Comprising Sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc. With an Account of Southern Whales, the Sperm Whale Fishery, and the Natural History of the Climates Visi

London 1840 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
192 Cheever, Henry T.

The Whale and His Captors: or, the Whaleman's Adventures, and the Whale's Biography, as Gathered in the Homeward Cruise of the `Commodore Preble'

Glasgow [c.1850] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
193 Colnett, James

A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries...

London 1798 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
194 [Jones, G.D.]

Life and Adventure in the South Pacific. By a Roving Printer

New York 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
195 Olmsted, Francis Allyn

Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, to Which are Added Observations on the Scenery, Manners and Customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands

New York 1841 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 687.50
196 Wheeler, Daniel

Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler, While Engaged in a Religious Visit to the Inhabitants of Some of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand, Accompanied by His Son, Charles Wheeler

Philadelphia 1840 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
197 Wilkes, Charles

Narrative of the United States' Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

London [1845] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
198 Wilkes, Charles

Voyage Round the World, Embracing the Principle Events of the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. In One Volume

Philadelphia 1849 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
199 Williams, Edward Adams

The Cruise of the Pearl Round the World. With an Account of the Operations of the Naval Brigade in India

London 1859 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
200 Wood, William Maxwell

Wandering Sketches of People and Things in South America, Polynesia, California and Other Places Visited, During a Cruise on Board of the U.S. Ships Levant, Portsmouth, and Savannah

Philadelphia 1849 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
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    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
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    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.