PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian Books, 861, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 16, 2026 - April 16, 2026

Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Beard, James A.	The Fireside Cook Book: A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert	New York	1949	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
27	Bell, Archie	The Spell of Egypt	Boston	[1922]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
28	Bemelmans, Ludwig	Bemelmans' La Bonne Table	New York	1964	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
29	Berghaus, Henrich K.W.	Physikalischer Atlas oder Sammlung von Karten, auf denen die hauptsachlichsten erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen natur nach ihrer geographischen verbreitung und vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind.	Verlag von Justus Perthes in Gotha	1845, 1848	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
30		Four leaves from the "Great Bible" of 1540	[London]	[1540]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
31		New Testament Epistles - 24 leaves from the 1574 third folio edition of the Bishops Bible	[London]	[1574]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
32	Reineccius, Christian	[Janua Hebraeae lingvae Veteris Testamenti : in qua totius codicis Hebraei vocabula una cum radicibus & grammatica vocum difficiliorum analysi comparent...]	[Leipzig]	[1720]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
33	Bonaparte, Prince Roland	Standing Bear		1883	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
34		Handwritten manuscript of letters and writings by others		c. 1789	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
35	Bradford, Rev. Guillaume; Miss Semple	Chronological and Historical Retrospect of the Memorable Events of the War in the Peninsula [bound with] Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, Made during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 19	London	1812; 1813; 1817	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
36	Browne, Alexander	Ars Pictoria: or an academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, etching. To which are added XXXI. copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Net	London	1675	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
37	Burroughs, Edgar Rice	Tarzan of the Apes	New York	[1914] but later	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
38	Burroughs, John	The Writings of John Burroughs	Boston	1904-1913	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
39	Ritchie, Anne Thackeray	Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends. A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure from the Negatives of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron. Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie	London	1893	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
40	Cervantes, Michel de	L'ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche: Traduction de Filleau de Saint-Martin Revue et Corrigee par Francis Guillot	Paris	[1935]	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
41	Palau y Dulcet, Antonio	Bibliografia de Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Barcelona-Madrid	1950	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
42	Hunter, Julia	Scientific Toys: Made for Amusement but Illustrating Some Important Principle		1884	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
43	Williamson, Mary E. and Mary K. Luckett	The Story of Annabelle Ant		c.1930's	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
44	Bredon, Juliet	Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest	Shanghai	1920	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
45	Chavannes, Edouard	Les memoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien	Paris	1895-1905	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
46	Chavannes, Edouard	Mission Archeologique dans la Chine Septentrionale	Paris	1909-1915	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
47	Chi, Chu	金陵古蹟名勝影集. Nanking	Shanghai	1936	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
48	Couvreur, Seraphin	Chou King: Texte Chinois avec une double traduction en Francias et en Latin...	Sien Hsien	1934	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
49	Couvreur, Seraphin	Les Quatre Livres avec un commentaire abrege en Chinois une double traduction en Francias et en Latin...	Ho Kien Fou	1895	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
50	Couvreur, Seraphin	Li Ki ou memoires sur les bienseances et les ceremonies.	Ho Kien Fou	1913	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown

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.