PBA Galleries: PBA Platinum, 858, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026

Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Dick, Philip K.	A Handful of Darkness	London	[1955]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
27	Dick, Philip K.	A Maze of Death	Garden City, New York	1970	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,375.00
28	Dick, Philip K.	Typed letter signed by Philip K. Dick addressed to his ex-wife Tessa	Santa Ana, CA	1979-04-02	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
29	Dick, Philip K.	World of Chance	London	[1956]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,500.00
30	Forster, John	The Life of Charles Dickens	London	1872-1874	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
31	Dickens, Charles	The Works of Charles Dickens	London	[1906]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
32	Poe, Edgar Allan	The Raven	New York	1884	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
33	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	London	1892	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
34		Press photograph of Albert Einstein with pipe		print date: 1935	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
35	Einstein, Albert	Zur Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie		1923	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
36	Epitome Astronomiae	Maestlin, Michael	Tubingen	1588	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
37	Eusebius of Caesarea	Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue]	Paris	1546	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
38	Fennell, Charles E.	Map of San Francisco - Great Park Homestead Association	San Francisco	1869	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
39	Slater, John C. and Nathaniel H. Frank	Introduction to Theoretical Physics	New York and London	1933	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 21,250.00
40	Milner, Henry M.	The Man and the Monster! Or, the Fate of Frankenstein; A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts...	London	[1826]	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
41	Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	The General in His Labyrinth	New York	1990	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
42	Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	Love in the Time of Cholera	New York	1988	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,812.50
43	Gentz, Wilhelm and Ismael, with Leopold Mueller and Charles Welsch	Nine original drawings used as prototypes for illustrations in Georg Ebers's Aegypten in Bild und Wort [with] complete sets of the German and English first editions		c. 1870s	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
44	Gibson, William	Virtual Light	New York	1993	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
45	Blake, William	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A reading & study	New York	1993	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
46	Grey, Zane	Hand-written manuscript for Gladiator of the Sea		c. 1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
47	Grey, Zane	Manuscript articles hand-written in binder		c. 1935	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
48	Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch	L'Annonciateur du Bien qui Viendra: Premier Appel a L'Humanite Actuelle (The Herald of the Coming Good)	Paris	1933	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,500.00
49		Solid train load of Hickmott's Bouldin Island Asparagus Shipped August 1900 to fill partly the orders from one of the eastern markets	San Francisco	1900	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
50	Hobbes, Thomas	Elements of Philosophy, The First Section Concerning Body. Written in Latine by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. And now translated into English. To which are added six lessons to the professors of mathematicks of the institution of Sr. Henry Savile, in the U	London	1656	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold

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 April

Sotheby’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.