PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views, 859, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026

Page Size: 433 items in 18 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Happy Phebe	London	[c.1850]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,750.00
2	Washington, Booker T.	Working With the Hands; Being a Sequel to ''Up From Slavery'' Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee	New York	1904	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 437.50
3	Caldwell, A.B.	History of the American Negro and his Institutions	Atlanta	1917	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 281.25
4	Ogilvie, Wm., editor	The Klondike Official Guide: Canada's Great Gold Field, the Yukon District	Toronto; London	1898	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
5	Sheldon, Charles	The Wilderness of Denali: Explorations of a Hunter-Naturalist in Northern Alaska	New York	1930	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
6	American Express Travel Department	The American Traveler in South America [with] This Week in Paris		1924; [1932]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
7	Morgan, Dale, editor	The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia... 1822-1838	Denver	1964	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
8	Morgan, Dale, editor	The West of William H. Ashley: The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia... 1822-1838	Denver	1964	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
9	Aldrin, Buzz	Magnificent Desolation: Images from the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission with the Words of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin	Reno, NV	2009	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 437.50
10	Bird, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	New York	[2005]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
11	Brown, Harrison	Must Destruction be our Destiny	New York	1946	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 312.50
12	Bush, Vannevar	The Gentleman of Culture		c. 1958-1959	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 937.50
13	Szilard, Leo, William Ogburn, Harold Urey, and Louis Wirth	University of Chicago Round Table, Number 601, September 25, 1949	Chicago	1949	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14	Baldwin, Thomas and J. Thomas	A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States; Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy:...	Philadelphia	1854	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
15	Bancroft, Hubert Howe	Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth	San Francisco	1892	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 100.00
16	Bancroft, Hubert Howe	The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft	San Francisco	1883-1890	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
17		Five signed books on the contribution of African American players to Major League Baseball		1982-2008	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
18		Six signed books about the Chicago Cubs		1971-2000	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
19		Six signed books about the New York Yankees		1962-2001	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 137.50
20		Two volumes with multiple autographs of MLB players - including Joe Dimaggio and Mickey Mantle	New York	[1985]; 1989	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 468.75
21	Blaine, James Gillespie	Political Discussions, Legislative, Diplomatic and Popular, 1856-1886	Norwich, CT	1887	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 100.00
22	Blunt, Edmund M.	The American Coast Pilot, Containing the Courses and Distances Between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, From Passamaquoddy, through the Gulf of Florida...	New York	1817	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
23	Bowdoin, James	A Philosophical Discourse Addressed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Assembled at the Meetinghouse, Nov. 8th MDCCLXXX, After the Inauguration of the President Into Office	Boston	1780	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 281.25
24	Breckinridge, Rev. John	Letter to New York philanthropists, on returning from a four-month trip of 4000 miles, across 9 states	New York	1838	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
25	Bryant, William Cullen, editor	Picturesque America; or, the Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country	New York	[1872; 1874]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	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.