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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
129

World War II photo album of Brazil and Africa

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
130 Selmer Pauline

Photograph album of Alaskan high school life

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
131

Photograph album of California & Southwest

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
132

Photograph album of South Dakota prairie life

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
133 Hutton Annelle

Naval nurse scrapbook from WWII

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
134 Abrams Berta

Oklahoma scrapbook of the 1920's

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
135 Poivre Pierre

Oeuvres Complettes

1797 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
136 Albright Madeleine; Carter Jimmy; Newsom Gavin

N Books, including: The Mighty and the Almighty

2006; 2014; 2013 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
137 Cleveland Grover

Government appointment document

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
138 Taft William Howard

Appointment document

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
139 Caro Robert A.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Master of the Senate

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
140 Ford Gerald R.;Dole Bob

Humor and the Presidency; Great Presidential Wit

1987;2001 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
141

N Books, including: Fishing Resorts Along the Canadian Pacific Railway

Montreal 1887;1919;c. 1925;1937 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
142

El Arte De Fumar. Tabacologia Universal.

1881 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
143 Commission Revolutionnaire

Citoyens Revolutionnaires!

1794 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
144 Langsdorff Georg Heinrich von

Langsdorff's Narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
145 Simpson George

Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
146 Canziani Estella

Costumes Traditions and Songs of Savoy

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
147 Selfridge H. Gordon

The Romance of Commerce

1918 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
148

Espantoso Huracan que Vino Sobre la Villa de Zafra

1624 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
149

Blazing the Mullan Trail

1860-1861 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
150 Sutherland Robert Q.;Wilson R.L.

The Book of Colt Firearms

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
151

Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1852

1852 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 87.50
152 Symons Thomas W.

Report of an Examination of the Upper Columbia River and the Territory in its Vicinity

1882 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
153 Abert J. W.

Western America in 1846-1847: The Original Travel Diary of Lieutenant J. W. Abert

1846-1847 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