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Auction Name	PBA Platinum	Total Sales (USD)	239,193.75
Auction Date	February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	241,400.00
Sale Number	#858	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	370,900.00
Total Lots	117
Sold Lots	59.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	465,500.00
% of Lots Sold	50.43%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	712,600.00
Unsold Lots	58	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	33.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
25	Dick, Philip K.	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	1968	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 21,250.00
39	Slater, John C. and Nathaniel H. Frank	Introduction to Theoretical Physics	1933	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 21,250.00
70	Mitchell, Margaret	Gone With the Wind	1936	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
73	Newton, Isaac	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Editio Ultima Cui Accedit Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis	1723	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 15,000.00
54		Archive of documents relating to the War Relocation Authority and Japanese internment during World War II	1942-1946	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 11,250.00
57	Morris, William	The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem	[1895]	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,250.00
96	Turing, Alan M.	The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis	1952	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 10,000.00
92	[Simmons, Ameila] An Orphan	American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables and the Best Mode of Making Puff Pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves...Together with the rules of Carving at Dinner parties. Exemplified With Cuts.	1831	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,750.00
65	Babbage, Charles	The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment	1838	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 7,500.00
94	Stephenson, Neal	Snow Crash	[1992]	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,500.00
64	Schwerd, Friedrich M.	Die kleine Speyerer Basis oder Beweis dass man mit einem geringen Aufwand an Zeit, Muhe und Kosten durch eine kleine genau gemessene Linie die Grundlage einer grossen Triangulation bestimmen Kann	1822	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 6,250.00
71	Malory, Thomas	Leaf from Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Morte D'Arthur	[1529]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,625.00
1	Adams, Ansel	Collection of Ansel Adams Yosemite winter sport and recreation photographs for Donald Tresidder	c.1928-30	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,000.00
86	Wright, William Aldis, editor	The Works of Shakespeare	1893-1895	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 5,000.00
52	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World: A Novel	1932	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,687.50
5	Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme	The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy	1994	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 4,375.00
20	Churchill, Winston S.	The World Crisis 1911-1918: Abridged & Revised Edition	1937	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,062.50
4		A.L. Aydelott and Associates Architects 1950-1954	[1954]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,750.00
82	Pliny, the Elder	The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus	1601	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,750.00
88		The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1852-53: Embracing a general directory of citizens; a street directory; a new and complete map of the city; and an appendix of general information, an almanac, etc. First Publication	1852	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 3,750.00
99	Wolfe, Thomas	Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life	1929	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,750.00
58	Ruskin, John	The Nature of Gothic	[1892]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,125.00
69	[Mitchell, John]	The Contest in America Between Great Britain and France, with its Consequences and Importance...By an Impartial Hand.	1757	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 3,125.00
78		Sheriff's Mugshot book from Contra Costa County, 1916-17	April, 1916-March, 1917	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 3,125.00
42	Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	Love in the Time of Cholera	1988	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,812.50

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.