PBA Galleries: PBA Platinum, 858, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, Ansel | Collection of Ansel Adams Yosemite winter sport and recreation photographs for Donald Tresidder |
San Francisco | c.1928-30 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 2 | Colonna, Francesco | Le Tableau des Riches Inventions: couvertes du voile des feintes amoureuses, qui sont representees dans le songe de Poliphile |
Paris | 1600 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Telephone Buildings: Bell System |
New York | [1930] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 4 | A.L. Aydelott and Associates Architects 1950-1954 |
[Memphis, TN] | [1954] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 | |
| 5 | Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme | The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy |
San Francisco | 1994 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,375.00 |
| 6 | Longus | Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe |
Chelsea | 1933 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 7 | Gassendi, Pierre | Institutio Astronomica, Juxta Hypotheseis Tam Veterum Quam Copernici et Tychonis |
London | 1653 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 8 | Gassendi, Pierre | Tychonis Brahei, Equitis Dani, Astronomorum Coryphaei, Vita |
The Hague | 1655 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | Ballard, J.G. | Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan |
[Brighton] | 1968 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 10 | Baum, L. Frank | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
West Hatfield, MA | 1985 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 11 | Wycliffe, John, translator | The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe Circa Mccclxxx: Now first printed from a contemporary Manuscript formerly in the Monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA |
London | 1848 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 12 | Borges, Jorge Luis | The Congress |
London | 1974 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 13 | Breuer, Marcel | Blueprints for the Torin Corporation building in Van Nuys |
Beverly Hills | 1955 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Browne, Sir Thomas | Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd. Wherein is Discovered The natural Causes of Metals, Stones, precious Earths, Juyces, Humors, and Spirits, The nature of Plants in general; their Affections, Parts, and Kinds in Particular |
London | 1657 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 15 | Scrapbook of 1860s California ephemera |
[San Francisco] | c.1860s | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 16 | Castro, Casimiro et.al. | Album Mexicano. Coleccion de paisajes, monumentos, costumbres y ciudades principales de La Republica. |
Mexico | No date, c.1880s | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Poe, Edgar Allan | The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Etchings and Woodcuts by Alan James Robinson |
[Easthampton, MA] | [1981] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 |
| 18 | Robinson, Alan James | An Odd Bestiary, Or a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals, Culled From Five Centuries of Travelers' Accounts, Natural Histories, Zoologies, Etc., By Authors Famous and Obscure, Arranged as an Abecedary. |
[Easthampton, MA] | 1982 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,100.00 |
| 19 | Williamson, Mary E. and Mary K. Luckett | The Story of Annabelle Ant |
c.1930's | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 20 | Churchill, Winston S. | The World Crisis 1911-1918: Abridged & Revised Edition |
London | 1937 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 21 | Amar, Jon. Aug.; Boissonade, Jo. Fr., editors | Scriptores Latini Principes [with] Poetarum Graecorum Sylloge |
Paris | [1823-1831] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Racinet, M.A. | Le Costume Historique |
Paris | 1888 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Cruikshank, George | Ten hand-colored etchings signed and dated by Cruikshank |
London | 1828-1829 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Dick, Philip K. | Confessions of a Crap Artist |
New York | 1975 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 25 | Dick, Philip K. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Garden City, New York | 1968 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
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ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000. -
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 AprilSotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.