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PBA Galleries: Books in all Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Comic Books, Photographs, Art - Timed Online Auction -bidstart 12/22

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Auction Name Books in all Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Comic Books, Photographs, Art - Timed Online Auction -bidstart 12/22 Total Sales (USD) 19,281.25
Auction Date January 02, 2026 - January 02, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,830.00
Sale Number #2066 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 28,300.00
Total Lots 304
Sold Lots 283.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,040.00
% of Lots Sold 93.09% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 30,400.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
103 Anson, George

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas

1748 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 437.50
149 Sitgreaves, Lorenzo

Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers

1854 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 437.50
286

Approx. 16 volumes of Twin Palms and Twelve Trees photobooks

USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
62 London, Jack

Martin Eden

1909 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 312.50
134 Harmon, Byron Hill and others

Fifteen Photo Postcards of Nakoda Native People

1920s USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 212.50
281 Picasso, Pablo

Picasso 347

[1970] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 212.50
72 Nabokov, Vladimir

Bend Sinister

[1947] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
136

Cohen reprint sheet of colonial currency

[c. 1850's] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
201 Radau, Michael, Georg Beckher, and Marcus Zuerius Van Boxhorn

Orator Extemporaneus sive artis oratoriae breviarium bipartitum... Accesserunt M.Z. Boxhorni Ideae Orationum

1687 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
293 Weston, Edward

Approx. 23 volumes of Edward Weston photography

USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
94 Walther, Eduard

Bilder zum Anschauungsunterricht fur die Jugend

1891 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 187.50
259 Kendrick, Robb

Changelings: Tintypes by Robb Kendrick

2008 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 187.50
112 Seyd, Ernest

California and its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant

1858 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 175.00
131

Three works on Mormon history

1882-1905 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 175.00
33 Ellroy, James

The Black Dahlia

[1987] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
58 London, Jack

Four by Jack London

1910-1914 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
73 Rentoul, Annie R.

Fairyland of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

[1931] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
99 Grant, Ulysses S.

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

1885-1886 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
102

The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser

July 6, 1780 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
176

Das Kleinste Kochbuch Der Welt : Enthalt Uber 100 Praktisch Erprobte Recepte V. Suppen, Fleisch- Und Mehlspeisen, Fische, Gemuse, Saucen, Salate Etc. Etc

[c.1900] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
248

Approx. 15 volumes of Edward S. Curtis photography

USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
262

Approx. 25 volumes of landscape photography

USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
288 Crone, Rainer

Andy Warhol

[1970] USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 162.50
31 Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda

1876 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 150.00
40 Greene, Graham

Four Graham Greene First Editions

1929-1948 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 150.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000