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
253		Olympic Games July 30 to August 14, 1932. Los Angeles, California. Vacation Fares, Deeply Cut [wrapper title]	Chicago	1932	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
254		Statement of Way-Bills Received by United States Express Company		1902-1903	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
255		Three publications from railroad companies, with one piece of dining car ephemera		1887-1937	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
256	Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von	Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806	San Francisco	1927	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
257	Simpson, George	Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42, Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World	San Francisco	1930	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
258	Serbaroli, Ettore	Landscape		No date	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
259	Sharp, James	Descriptions of Some of the Utensils in Husbandry, Rolling Carriages, Cart Rollers, and Dvided Rollers for Land or Garden, Mills, Weighing Engines...	London	c.1777	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
260	Sheldon, Charles	The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon: A Hunter's Explorations for Wild Sheep in Sub-Arctic Mountains	New York	1911	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
261		Spanish colonial manuscripts relating to Revolutionary-Era American public debt		c. 1779-1784	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,437.50
262	Studer, Jacob H.	The Birds of North America...Drawn and Colored from Nature	New York	1897	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
263		The Electrical Experimenter / Science and Invention	New York	1919-01-01	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
264		Scientific American Supplement No. 1483	New York	1904-06-04	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
265	Thompson, Silvanus P.	Polyphase Electric Currents and Alternate Current Methods	New York	1902	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
266		Tobacco---Hand Culture & Treatment	Washington	1892	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
267		Utah, the inland empire, illustrated: The story of the pioneers, resources and industries of the state, attractions of Salt Lake City, leading men of the community	Salt Lake City	1902	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
268	Warriner, Francis	Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World, During the Years 1831-34. Embracing the Attack on Quallah Battoo, With Notices of Scenes, Manners, Etc. in Different Parts of Asia, South America, and the Islands of the Pacific	New York; Boston	1835	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 237.50
269	Lyman, W. D.	An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County State of Washington		1901	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
270	Symons, Thomas W.	Report of an Examination of the Upper Columbia River and the Territory in its Vicinity in September and October, 1881, to Determine its Navigability, and Adaptability to Steamboat Transportation	Washington	1882	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
271	Wheat, Carl Irving	Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861	San Francisco	1957-1963	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 750.00
272	Whitman, L.L.	Across America in a Franklin, 1907		1906	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
273	Hall, James Norman & Charles Bernard Nordhoff	The Lafayette Flying Corps	Boston and New York; Cambridge	1920	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
274	Woyshner, Paul	He Did His Duty	San Francisco	1917	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
275		Soviet Infantry	Washington	[c.1943]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
276		Three view albums of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893	Chicago	1892-1893	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
277	Brown, Edward	A Brief Account of some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe...	London	1685	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 437.50

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.