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
77		12 Civil War bills and notes		1861-1864	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
78	Doolittle, Elkanah, et al.	Archive of approximately 300 handwritten letters from or to members of the extended Doolittle Family of Onarga, Illinois, some 80 of which are from Elkanah Doolittle during his military service from July 1862 to January 1864	Various places	19th century	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
79	Maxwell, James Robert	Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama	New York	1926	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
80	Scott, William Forse	The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers from Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865 [with] Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers 1861-1865, an Appendix to "The Story of a Cavalry Regiment."	New York	1893-1902	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
81	Sherman, John, U.S. Senator	Letter from U.S. Senator seeking a Washington appointment to a Bureau of Military Justice in the War Department	Washington, D.C.	1864	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
82		Four works on the first post-World War II computing machines		1949-1957	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
83	Hartree, Douglas R.	Calculating Instruments and Machines	Cambridge, England	1950	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
84		"Les Automates" in La Nature [with] Chess and Computers		1914; 1976	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
85	Taube, Mortimer	Computers And Common Sense, The Myth of Thinking Machines	New York	1961	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 406.25
86	Wilkes, M.V.	Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. C, No. 4862	London	1951-12-14	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
87	Corbett, James J.	The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion	New York & London	1925	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
88		Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba	Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba	1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
89		Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba	Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba	1867	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
90		Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
91		Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
92		Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
93		Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay	Guanajay, Cuba	1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
94		Three IDs for Chinese workers in Cuba	Cuba	1865; c. 1869; 1875	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
95		Contrato for emancipated Black slave	Havana, Cuba	1871	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
96		Decreto Asamblea de Representantes del Centro Abolicion de la Esclavitud	Camaguey, Cuba	1869	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
97		Expediente of African slave in Cuba on trial for beating another slave with three Filiaciones	Cuba	1848-1849	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 625.00
98		List of African Cuban slaves who have left the jurisdiction 1866	Cardenas, Cuba	1866	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
99		List of slaves from the Congo	Cuba	1861	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
100		Manumission document for mother and daughter Creole Cuban slaves	Gibara, Cuba	1873	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
101		Manuscript document discussing the sale of 12 year old African slave	Cuba	1872	USD 300.00 - 500.00	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.