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
102		Manuscript document discussing the sale of Dolores, an African slave	Cuba	1869	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
103		Manuscript entries of mortgaged slaves	Havana, Cuba	1842-1843	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
104		Manuscript of Chinese indentured servant paying for the "tasacion" of a female Black slave	Matanzas, Cuba	1871	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
105	Belot, Charles	Observaciones sobre los males que se experimentan en esta isla de Cuba desde la infancia, y consejos dados a las madres y al bello sexo	New York	1828	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
106	Diez Muro, Raul	Historia del Base Ball Profesional de Cuba... Campeonatos Celebrados desde 1878, hasta 1949	[Havana, Cuba]	1949	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
107		Expediente regarding prison conditions	Cuba	1860	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 375.00
108		Fidel Castro and Cuban ephemera		c. late 1950s-1975	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
109		Junta Protectora de Libertos manuscript	Matanzas, Cuba	1879	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
110		Manifiesto Capitania General del Ejercito Libertador de la Isla de Cuba y Gobierno Provisional de la Misma	Bayamo	1868	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,250.00
111	Marti, Jose	Handwritten letter, signed	New York	1895	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 937.50
112	Marti, Jose	Handwritten letter, signed	New York	1892	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
113	Marti, Jose	Handwritten letter, signed	New York	c. 1895	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
114		Two documents signed by Tomas Estrada Palma, 1st president of Cuba	Cuba	1899	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
115	Curtis, Edward S.	Arriving Home -- Noatak	Cambridge, MA	1928	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 437.50
116	Curtis, Edward S.	Assiniboin Mother and Child	Cambridge, MA	1926	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
117	Curtis, Edward S.	Girl and Jar -- San Ildefonso	Cambridge, MA	1905	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
118	Curtis, Edward S.	King Island Village	Cambridge, MA	1928	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 225.00
119	Curtis, Edward S.	Quiet Waters -- Tule River Reservation	Cambridge, MA	1924	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 468.75
120	Curtis, Edward S.	The Sentinel -- San Ildefonso	Cambridge, MA	1925	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
121	Curtis, Edward S.	Sia Street Scene	Cambridge, MA	1925	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
122	Curtis, Edward S.	The Terraced Houses of Zuni	Cambridge, MA	1903	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
123		McKenney's Pacific Coast Directory for 1886-7 - Giving Name, Business and Address of Business and Professional Men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Together with Sketches of the Different Towns, Giving	San Francisco	1886	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
124	Dykes, Jeff	Fifty Great Western Illustrators: A Bibliographic Checklist	[Flagstaff]	[1975]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 212.50
125	Douglas, William O.	Democracy and Finance: The Addresses and Public Documents of William O. Douglas as Member and Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission	New Haven	1940	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
126	Fisher, Irving	The Money Illusion	London	[1928]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 375.00

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.