PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views , 828, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024

Page Size: 558 items in 23 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	Bancroft, Hubert Howe	The Works of Hubert Howe - Vols. XXXIV and XXXV	San Francisco	1888	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
127	Willis, Nathaniel Parker	American Scenery	London	[1840]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
128	Wolstenholme, Gordon, editor	Man And His Future	London	1963	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 937.50
129	Blake, William P.	Report of a Geological Reconnaissance in California	New York	1858	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
130		File copy of correspondence between Bolivian officials of newly-independent Bolivia regarding growing tensions with Brazil	Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia	27 de Abril 1826	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
131	Agache, Alfred	Cicade do Rio de Janeiro: Extensao - Remodelacao - Embellezamento	Paris	[1930]	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 343.75
132	Dreys, Nicolao	Noticia descriptiva da provincia de Rio-Grande de S. Pedro do sul, Contendo, alem de topographia physica e politica e de um ensaio de estatistica local...	Rio de Janeiro	1839	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 437.50
133	Henderson, James	A History of The Brazil; Comprising its Geography, Commerce, Colonization, Aboriginal Inhabitants	London	1821	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 437.50
134	[Burgess, Gelett, et al.]	The Lark	San Francisco	1895-97	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
135	[Taylor, Zachary]	Message of the President of the United States, Communicating information...in relation to California and New Mexico	Washington, D.C.	1850	USD 400.00 - 200.00	USD 343.75
136		Chinese Immigration: Its Social, Moral and Political Effect. Report of the California State Senate of its Special Committee on Chinese Immigration	Sacramento	1878	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
137		Telephone Directory. Contra Costa County	[San Francisco]	1935	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
138		Stock certificate for Eureka Quartz Mining Company, 1853	Eldorado County, CA	1853	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
139		Five photograph of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California	No place	c.1900	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
140	Graham, Rob. E., County Clerk	Index to Registration Affidavits, County of Marin, State of California, November 1930 (cover title)	San Rafael	1930	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
141		Original panorama photograph of Mendocino, California	No place	c.1900	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
142		Monrovia "Gem of the Foothills" California	Monrovia, CA	[c.1907]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
143	Brainard, William Newell	Letter from W.N. Brainard in Dowagiac, Michigan, to his business partner Ransom Morehouse in Sacramento, California, describing the start of an overland trip to California with a herd of cattle, and other matters	Dowagiac, Michigan	April 14,1853	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
144	Hunt, F.D., compiler and publisher	Palo Alto and Stanford University Directory - 1897-98	Palo Alto	1897	USD 800.00 - 400.00	USD 500.00
145		Eleven Palo Alto stock farm pamphlets		1894-1903	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
146		Placer County, California: The Land of Sunshine, Fruit & Flowers	[Auburn]	1913	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
147		The May Flower...Prepared by E.A. Bethurun & Co.	Redlands, CA	[c.1916]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
148	McKinney, Joseph, Sheriff	Notification of a Sheriff's Sale of a house in Sacramento, to satisfy a Writ of Execution	Sacramento, CA	April 26, 1850	USD 400.00 - 200.00	USD 250.00
149		Report of the Secretary of War, in Further Compliance with the Resolution of the Senate Calling for Copies on the Geology and Topography of California	Washington, D.C.	1850	USD 300.00 - 150.00	USD 375.00
150		Membership certificate in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, with bird's-eye view	San Francisco	1911	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

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Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

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High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

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Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
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High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD