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
76	Davis, Richard Harding	9 works by Richard Harding Davis	New York	1894-1907	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
77		The Life of the Bee [with] Fabre's Book of Insects		1912; 1921	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
78	Forster, John	The Life of Charles Dickens	London	1872-1874	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	Unknown
79	Dickens, Charles	The Works of Charles Dickens	London	[1906]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
80	Funk, Isaac,	A Standard Dictionary of the English Language: Upon Original Plans Designed to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statement, in the Light of the Most Recent Advances in Knowledge, and in the Readiest Form for Popular Use, the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meani	New York; London and Toronto	1895-1903	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
81	Diodorus, Siculus	The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In Fifteen Books	London	1700	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
82	Dionysius of Halicarnassus [Dionysii Halicarnassei]	Dionysiou tou Alicarnasseos Romaikes archaiologias Biblia deka. Dionysii Halicarnassei antiquitatum...	Lutetiae	1546-7	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
83	Heine, Heinrich	Der Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem nebst kuriosen Berichten uber Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst	Berlin	1912	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
84	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	London	1892	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
85	Eliade, Mircea, editor	The Encyclopedia of Religion	New York	[1986]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
86	Eliot, T.S.	The Waste Land	New York	[1922]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
87		The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. of Essex. The First Part	Cologne	1695	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
88	Erasmus, Desiderius	Colloquia nunc emendatiora, Cum omnium Notis	Amsterdam	1677	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
89	Plautus, Titus Maccius	Comoediae Superstites XX. Accuratissime Editae	Amsterdam	1652	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
90		Five volumes from The Tudor Facsimile Texts series	London	1910	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
91	Euripides	Diatribe in Euripidis perditorum dramatum reliquias [bound with] Tragoedia Hippolytus	Leyden	1767-1768	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
92	Eusebius of Caesarea	Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue]	Paris	1546	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
93	Heath, Ambrose	Seven cookbooks by Amborse Heath	London	1935-1946	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
94	Ranhofer, Charles	The Epicurean: A Complete Treatise of Analytical and Practical Studies on the Culinary Art Including Table and Wine Service...	Evanston, IL	[1920]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
95	Foy-Vaillant, Jean	Historia Ptolemaeorum Aegypti regum, ad fidem numismatum accommodata	Amsterdam	1701	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
96	Frazer, J.G.	Pausanias's Description of Greece	London	1913	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
97	Gailhabaud, Jules	Monuments Anciens et Modernes: Colllection Formant une Histoire de L'Architecture de Differents Peuples	Paris	1870; 1865	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
98	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales	[London]	[2010]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
99	Gillray, James	Four James Gillray engravings from the Bohn edition, hand-colored		[1851]	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
100	Gillray, James	Six James Gillray engravings from the Bohn edition, hand-colored		[1851]	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	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.