PBA Galleries: Books in all Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps & Views, Antiquarian and Art, 2068, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 02, 2026 - July 02, 2026
Page Size: 303 items in 13 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Trollope Anthony

Cousin Henry

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
54 Trollope Anthony

The Fixed Period

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
55 Trollope Anthony

Marion Fay

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
56 Daniel Charles

Ai, A Social Vision

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
57 van Gulik Robert

Judge Dee at Work; Meer van Mien-yuan

London; Gravenhage 1967; 1959 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
58 Van Vogt A.E.

Slan

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
59 Ward Lynd

Wild Pilgrimage

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
60 Wharton Edith

Hudson River Bracketed

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
61 Wheatley Dennis

The Quest of Julian Day

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
62 Wilson Robert

The Big Killing

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
63 Woolf Virginia

A Writer's Diary

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
64 Wright Richard

Native Son

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
65 Collins Perry McD.; Crewe Fred; Kane Elisha Kent; Ogilvie William; Stewart Elihu; Stuck Hudson; Wardman George

7 Books, including: Overland Explorations of Siberia

New York; Milwaukee; Philadelphia; Ottawa; London; New York; San Francisco 1864; 1921; 1857; 1913; 1913; 1915; 1884 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 125.00
66

The American Traveler in South America; This Week in Paris

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
67

Scribner's Monthly; The Californian Illustrated Magazine

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
68

Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. XV

1886-1887 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
69 Botta Charles

History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

1834 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
70 Biggers Don Hampton; Greene A.C.; Taylor W. Thomas

Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
71 Bolton Herbert E.

Font's Complete Diary; Wider Horizons of American History

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
72 Fitzroy Robert;Officers of H.M.S. Beagle

South America, West Coast: Sheet XIV. Peru: Independencia Bay to Begueta Bay

1836 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
73 Husted F.M.

Husted's Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and Alameda County Directory

1894 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
74

Manuscript deed/quitclaim for a parcel of land in Calaveras County

1862 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
75

Correspondence related to Catalina Island purse seine fishing and game laws

1910s;1918;1921 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
76 Gottfried

Manuscript receipt for land sold to Kimball & Cutting

1863 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
77

Proceedings Before the Water Commissioners

San Francisco 1877 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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