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
152	Forster, Charles	The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents...	London	1852-1854	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
153	Paley, William	The Works of William Paley	London	1814-1819	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
154	[Engelbrecht, Martin]	Bandes des voleurs	Augsburg	c. 1750	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
155	[Engelbrecht, Martin]	Jesus entering Jerusalem	Augsburg	c. 1750	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
156	Pennant, Thomas	Some Account of London	London	1791	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
157	Pershing, John J.	My Experiences in the World War - Author's Autograph Edition	New York	1931	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
158	Petrarch, Francesco	Il Petrarcha con l'Espositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gesualdo...	Venice	1581	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
159	Petronius	Titi Petronii Arbitri eqvitis Romani Satyricon, cum Fragmento nuper Tragurii reperto. Accedunt diversorum poetarum Lusus in Priapum, Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonii cento nuptialis, Cupido crucifixus, Epistolae de Cleopatra, & alia nonnulla. Omnia commentari	Amsterdam	1669-1671	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
160	Phalaris	The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers.	London	1749	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
161		England, Scotland, and Italian Lakes		[c. 1890]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
162		Photograph album of Spanish-American War training		[c. 1898]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
163	Pitt, Christopher and Joseph Warton, translators	The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. The Original Text correctly printed from the most authentic Editions, collated for this Purpose...In Four Volumes.	London	1753	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
164	Callimachus	Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta Quae Exstant...Moscou Syrakousiou, Biōnos Smyrnaiou Eidyllia	Antwerp	1584	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
165	Plautus	The Comedies of Plautus. Translated into Familiar Blank Verse	London	1767-1774	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
166	Plutarch	The Lives of the Nobel Grecians & Romans...	Cambridge	1676	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
167	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea	London	1610-1612	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
168	Poe, Edgar Allan	The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe	Philadelphia	[c.1900]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
169	Poivre, Pierre	Oeuvres Complettes de P. Poivre, Indendant des Isles de France et de Bourbon, correspondant de l'academie des sciences, etc;...	Paris	1797	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
170	Polano, Pietro Soaue	The Historie of the Councel of Trent	London	1640	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
171	Polybius	[Polybiou Megalopolitou istoriōn biblia 5, kai epitomai 12] / Polybij Megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque	Basel	[1549]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
172	Johnson, J[ohn]	Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing. With Biographical Notices of the Printers of England, from Caxton to the Close of the Sixteenth Century: A Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Chara	London	1824	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
173	Pushkin, Alexander	Four Stories	Greenbrae, CA	1987	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
174		L'Alcoran de Mahomet. Traduit d'Arabe en Francois, par le Sieur du Ryer	Paris	1672	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
175	Wieland, Christoph Martin	Oberon. Ein romantisches Heldengedicht in 12 Gesangen	Munich	1920	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
176	Raffald, Elizabeth	The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c...	London	1800	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.