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
76		Around the World: album of photographs from a British traveler's trip through Asia		1900	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
77	[Buchan-Hepburn, Sir Archibald	Album of photographs and watercolors through Albania, Montenegro, and France		[1908]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,500.00
78		Sheriff's Mugshot book from Contra Costa County, 1916-17	Contra Costa County	April, 1916-March, 1917	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 3,125.00
79	Planck, Max	Signed card by Max Planck with photograph	Berlin	1938	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,500.00
80	Callimachus	Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Bionos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia	Antwerp	1584	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
81	Ficino, Marsilio, translator	Omnia Divini Platonis Opera tralatione Marsilii Ficini, emendatione et ad Graecum codicem collatione Simonis Grynaei, summa diligentia repurgata, quibus subjectus est index quam copiosissimus	Basle	1561	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
82	Pliny, the Elder	The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus	London	1601	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,750.00
83	Polybius	[Polybiou Megalopolitou istorion biblia 5, kai epitomai 12] / Polybij Megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque	Basel	[1549]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
84	Powell, John Wesley	Atlas accompanying the report on the Geology of a Portion of the Uinta Mountains and a Region of Country Adjacent Thereto		1876	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,875.00
85	Remington, Frederic	John Ermine of the Yellowstone	New York	1902	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,812.50
86	Wright, William Aldis, editor	The Works of Shakespeare	London	1893-1895	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 5,000.00
87	Cooke, Conrad William	Automata, Old and New	London	1893	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
88		The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1852-53: Embracing a general directory of citizens; a street directory; a new and complete map of the city; and an appendix of general information, an almanac, etc. First Publication	San Francisco	1852	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 3,750.00
89	Theurkauf, Rudolph G.	Illuminated broadside for Theurkauf's model of San Francisco with plans, photographs, and sketches for the miniature portable exhibit	San Francisco	1927	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
90	Hunter, Julia	Scientific Toys: Made for Amusement but Illustrating Some Important Principle		1884	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
91	Shakespeare, William	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A New Bibliophile Edition Printed on Sheets of Pure Cork With the Spanish Version and With Illustrations in colour By Anthony Salo	Barcelona	[1930]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
92	[Simmons, Ameila] An Orphan	American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables and the Best Mode of Making Puff Pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves...Together with the rules of Carving at Dinner parties. Exemplified With Cuts.	Woodstock, VT	1831	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,750.00
93	Stephenson, Neal	Cryptonomicon	New York	1999	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
94	Stephenson, Neal	Snow Crash	New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland	[1992]	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,500.00
95	Jones, Inigo; Walter Charleton; John Webb	The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored, by Inigo Jones Esq.; Architect General to the King	London	1725	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
96	Turing, Alan M.	The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis	London	1952	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 10,000.00
97	Twain, Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)	New York	1885	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
98	Wasson, R. Gordon, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A.P. Ruck	The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries	New York and London	[1978]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
99	Wolfe, Thomas	Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life	New York	1929	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,750.00
100	Wordsworth, William	Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems	London	1800	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	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.