PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views, 859, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Young, John P. | San Francisco: A History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis |
San Francisco and Chicago | [1912] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 137.50 |
| 52 | Thorne-Hill Ranch: Kings County, California |
Los Angeles | 1912 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 312.50 | |
| 53 | Probate Auction Sale of Personal Property...Saturday, July 8, 1899 |
1899 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 54 | Mercantile and Industrial Review of San Pedro, California |
Los Angeles | [c.1900] | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 55 | Official Program / Sutro Baths / Sunday, Aug. 20, 1905 |
San Francisco | 1905 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 56 | Sutro Baths and Museum |
San Francisco | No date | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 57 | Denny, Gideon Jacques | [Seascape] |
No date | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 58 | Hunt, Esther, (attributed to) | [Portrait of young woman in Chinatown] |
San Francisco | c.1906 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 59 | Hunt, Esther | A Chinese Debutante |
San Francisco | No date | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 60 | Peelor, Harold | Yosemite Falls |
San Jose | No date | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 61 | Rogers, Charles | Conflagration at Alcatraz |
1874 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 62 | Schafer, Frederick | Cattle by the River |
No date | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 63 | Ryan, William Redmond | Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines |
London | 1850 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 212.50 |
| 64 | All About California and the Inducements to Settle There [For Gratuitous Circulation.] |
San Francisco | 1870 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 65 | Becker, Robert H. | Disenos of California Ranchos Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants [1822-1846], from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco |
San Francisco | 1964 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 66 | Brewer, William H. | Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903 |
New Haven | 1931 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 68 | Early California [with] The Huntington, Pasadena, California |
1915; 1940 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 69 | Group of Book Club od California publications |
San Francisco | N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 212.50 | |
| 70 | McCarthy, John Russell, editor | California Series |
Los Angeles | 1928-1930 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 71 | Mora, Jo | Californios: The Saga of the Hard-riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys |
Garden City, NY | 1949 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 72 | Second Annual Report of the Chief Executive Viticultural Officer to the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, For the Year 1882-3 |
Sacramento | 1883 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 73 | Warner, J.J. | Constitution, Standing Rules, and List of Officers and Members of the Historical Society of Southern California; Together with the Inaugural Address of the President |
Los Angeles | 1884 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 74 | The Laws, Treaty, and Regulations relating to the Exclusion of Chinese from the United States / Arranged for the Use of Officers of the Bureau of Immigration |
Washington | 1903-07-01 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 437.50 | |
| 75 | Seward, George F., Late United States Minister to China | Chinese Immigration, In its Social and Economical Aspects |
San Francisco | 1881 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 76 | Chomsky, Noam and S.J. Noumoff | Correspondence between Chomsky and Noumoff |
Cambridge; Montreal | 1974-1986 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.