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
51	Hobbes, Thomas	Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie...	London	1651	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
52	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World: A Novel	London	1932	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,687.50
53	Crooke, W.	The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh	Calcutta	1896	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
54		Archive of documents relating to the War Relocation Authority and Japanese internment during World War II		1942-1946	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 11,250.00
55	Joyce, James	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	New York	1916	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
56	Ricci, Paolo	De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem I cabalistae: seu allegorisan num eruditionem	Pavia	1510	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
57	Morris, William	The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem	[Hammersmith]	[1895]	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,250.00
58	Ruskin, John	The Nature of Gothic	[Hammersmith]	[1892]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,125.00
59	Kesey, Ken	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	New York	[1962]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
60	La Perouse, Jean Francois Galaup de	A Voyage of La Perouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788	London	1798	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
61	Le Corbusier	Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... S.V.P.	Boulogne	1937 [i.e. 1938]	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,500.00
62		Acta Eruditorum Anno MDCLXXXIX	Leipzig	1689	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
63	Leybourn, William	Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in Nine Books	London	1690	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
64	Schwerd, Friedrich M.	Die kleine Speyerer Basis oder Beweis dass man mit einem geringen Aufwand an Zeit, Muhe und Kosten durch eine kleine genau gemessene Linie die Grundlage einer grossen Triangulation bestimmen Kann	Speier	1822	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 6,250.00
65	Babbage, Charles	The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment	London	1838	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 7,500.00
66	Euclid	The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners	London	1847	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
67	Miller, Ken	Marisa Flag on Beach, Ocean Beach San Francisco	San Francisco	1985	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
68	Misrach, Richard	[Richard Misrach 1979]	[San Francisco]	[1979]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
69	[Mitchell, John]	The Contest in America Between Great Britain and France, with its Consequences and Importance...By an Impartial Hand.	London	1757	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 3,125.00
70	Mitchell, Margaret	Gone With the Wind	New York	1936	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
71	Malory, Thomas	Leaf from Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Morte D'Arthur	[London]	[1529]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,625.00
72		Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of the City of New York	New York	1862	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
73	Newton, Isaac	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Editio Ultima Cui Accedit Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis	Amsterdam	1723	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 15,000.00
74	Perrot, Georges and Charles Chipiez	Histoire de L'Art dans L'Antiquite Egypte - Assyrie - Perse - Asie Mineure - Grece - Etrurie - Rome	Paris	1882-1914	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
75	Hammerschmidt, Wilhelm and Henry John van Lennep,	Documents Archeologiques sur la Egypte, Nubie, Syrie		c.1869	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00

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.