PBA Galleries: Americana - World History - Maps & Views, 863, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 268 | Scott, Robert F. | The Voyage of the 'Discovery' |
New York; London | 1905 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 269 | Shaw, Thomas | Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant |
Oxford | 1738 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 270 | Stanley, Henry M. | In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria |
New York | 1891 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 271 | Stanley, Henry M. | Through the Dark Continent; or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean |
New York | 1878 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 272 | Thackeray, William Makepeace | The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century |
London | 1857-59 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 273 | Ulysses, Charles | Travels Through Various Provinces of The Kingdom of Naples, in 1789. Translated from the German, By Anthony Aufrere, Esq. Illustrated with Engravings. |
London | 1795 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 274 | Danguy, M.R. and M.Ch. Aubertin | Les Grands Vins de Bourgogne (La Cote-D'Or): Etude et Classement par Ordre de Merite... |
Dijon, France | [1892] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 275 | Molon, Girolamo | Ampelografia: Descrizione Delle Migliori Varieta Di Viti Per Uve Da Vino, Uve Da Tavola, Porta-innesti E Produttori Diretti |
Milano [i.e., Milan] | 1906 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 276 | Viala, P. | Revue de Viticulture, Organe de l'Agriculture des Regions Viticoles...Tome XXI |
Paris | 1904 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 277 | Wild, Frank | Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A.H. Macklin |
London | 1923 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 278 | [Woodard, Captain David] | The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen Who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea and Surrendered Themselves Up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes; Containing an Interesting Account of Their Sufferings from Hunger and Various Hardship |
London | 1805 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 279 | Provisional Manual of Air-Force Law [and] Notes on Rigging for Air Mechanics |
1918 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 280 | Eight soldiers' letters with ephemera from the end of World War One |
1918-19 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 281 | Album of photographer David Rolin's childhood in WWII Japan |
c. 1940-1951 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 282 | Soviet Infantry |
Washington | [c.1943] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 283 | Wanted For Incitement to Murder |
[Germany] | [1940] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.25 | |
| 284 | Wouk, Herman | The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II |
Garden City, NY | 1952 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 285 | Ximenez de Sandoval, Crispin and Antonio Madera y Vivero | Memorias sobre la Argelia |
Madrid | 1853 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 286 | Yaggy, Levi and T.L. Haines | Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life:... |
New York | 1882 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 287 | Younghusband, Francis | Kashmir |
London | 1909 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 288 | Ferrero, Guglielmo | The Greatness and Decline of Rome |
New York | [c.1909-1910] | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 289 | Bonatti, Walter | On the Heights |
London | 1964 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 290 | Conway, Martin | The Bolivian Andes: A record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years |
New York and London | 1901 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 291 | Barnes, Malcolm | After Everest: An Autobiography of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa |
New Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Calcutta, Kanpur | [1977] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 293 | Hornbein, Thomas F. | Everest: The West Ridge |
San Francisco | 1965 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 437.50 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000