PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian Books, 861, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 16, 2026 - April 16, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jones, Edward Thomas | Jones's English System of Book-Keeping, by single or double entry, in which it is impossible for an error of the most trifling amount to be passed unnoticed; calculated effectually to prevent the evils attendant on the methods so long established; and ada |
Bristol | 1796 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 2 | Alciphron | Alciphron's Epistles; In Which are Described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now First Translated from the Greek. |
London | 1791 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3 | Cicero, Marcus Tullius | In Hoc Volumine Haec Continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium et de Inventione |
Venice | 1521 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 4 | Cicero, Marcus Tullius | M.T. Ciceronis De Philosophia volumen primum, in quo haec continentur... |
Venice | 1523 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 5 | Cicero | Epistolae ad Atticum... |
Venice | 1548 [1551] | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 6 | Machiavelli, Niccolo | Il Prencipe di Nicolo Machiavelli, al Magnifico Lorenzo di Pietro de Medici. La Vita di Castvc'cio... |
[Venice] | [1540] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown |
| 7 | Pausanias | Graeciae descriptio [graece] |
Venice | 1516 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown |
| 8 | Plinius Caecilius Scundus [Pliny the Younger] | Epistolarum libri decem... |
Venice | 1508 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 9 | Statius, Publius Papiniu | Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium |
Venice | 1519 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 10 | [Niẓāmī Ganjavī] Abu Muhammad Bin Yusuf Bin Mum Ayyid-I-Nizamu-'d-Din | The Sikander Nama, E Bara, or Book of Alexander the Great, Written in A.D. 1200 |
London | 1881 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 11 | Herodotus | Egypt |
Greenbrae, CA | [1989] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 12 | Allen, Thomas | The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent |
London | 1827 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 13 | Ammianus Marcellinus | Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum...Libri XVIII |
Leiden | 1693 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown |
| 14 | Taylor, Thomas | The Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek |
London | 1818 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 15 | Artaud de Montor, Chevalier | Rome et Ses Pontifes: Histoire, Traditions, Monuments |
Tours | 1896 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 16 | Bacon, Francis | Bacon's Essays: Sydney Edition |
London | 1912 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
| 17 | Ashwood, Bartholomew | The Heavenly Trade, or the Best Merchandizing: The only way to live well in Impoverishing Times... |
London | 1678 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 18 | Astle, Thomas | The Origin and Progress of Writing, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary |
London | 1803 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 19 | [Austen, James and Henry Austen] | The Loiterer, a Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790. Vol. II |
Oxford | 1790 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 20 | Basilio, Sancho de Sana Justa y Rufino | Alocucion Que en el Dia Veinte de Enero del Ano Mile Setecientos Ochenta y Tres, Cumpleanos del Rey Nuestro Senor D. Carlos III... |
Manila | 1783 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 21 | [Baum, L. Frank] | The Last Egyptian [with] Annabel |
1908; 1912 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 22 | Baum, L. Frank | The Emerald City of Oz |
Chicago | [1910] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 23 | Baum, L. Frank | John Dough and the Cherub |
Chicago | [1906] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 24 | Baum, L. Frank | Magus Mirabilis in Oz |
Berkeley; London | 1981-1982 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 25 | Baum, L. Frank | Two editions of The Land of Oz |
Chicago | [c. 1906] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
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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.