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
179 Dominis John Owen

J.O. Dominis Gov. of Island of Oahu

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 1,000.00
180 Liliʻuokalani

Kamakaʻeha or Mrs. Gov. Dominis a Hawaiian Chiefess

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 1,625.00
181 Page P N

Westminster Bridge

1850s USD 10.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
182

Three original photographs of early lumbering scenes

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 112.50
183 Mayer Auguste Etienne Francois

Seven lithograph views of Iceland

1842 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
184

Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Map of Michigan

1883 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
185 McCord David; Weber Francis J

N Books, including: Notes from Four Cities 1927-1953

1969; 1975 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
186 Mitchell S Augustus

Map of Oceanica

1887 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
187 Taylor H E B

Barnes' Driving Map of Philadelphia and Surroundings

1867 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
188 Powell Lawrence Clark

Bookman's Progress

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
189 Austen Jane

Sense and Sensibility

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
190 Boetticher Budd

When in Disgrace

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
191 Allen Lewis; Allen Dorothy

The Allen Press Bibliography

1985 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 125.00
192 Fremont John Charles; Stansky Peter; Starr Kevin

N Books, including: Geographical Memoir upon Upper California

1964; 1998; 2010 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
193 Cobbett William

Rural Rides; Cobbett's England

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
194 Raper Elizabeth; Voltaire M. de; Bunyan John; Laver James; Dill Francis P.; Garnett Porter

5 Books, including: The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper and a Portion of Her Cipher Journal

1924; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1931 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
195 Fraser Marjorie Frost

Franconia

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
196 Coppard A.E.; Morgan Gwenda

Tapster's Tapestry

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
197 Johnson Samuel; Juvenal

The Vanity of Human Wishes

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
198 Durrenmatt Friedrich

Oedipus

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
199 Henry O.

The Voice of the City and Other Stories

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 250.00
200 Kafka Franz

Metamorphosis

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
201 Kafka Franz

The Trial

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
202 Singer Isaac Bashevis

The Magician of Lublin

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
203 McGuane Thomas

Sons

N/A USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 50.00
  • 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