PBA Galleries: Rare Books & Manuscripts - A PBA Platinum Auction, 847, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025

Page Size: 371 items in 15 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
276	Trenholm, Virginia Cole	Footprints on the Frontier: Saga of the La Ramie Region of Wyoming	[Douglas, Wyoming]	[1945]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
277	Atherton, Gertrude	The Splendid Idle Forties	New York	[1902]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
278	Austin, Mary	The Land of Little Rain	Boston and New York	[1903]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
279	Austin, Mary	The Land of Little Rain - 2 editions	Boston and New York	1903	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
280	Bancroft, Hubert Howe	The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of California, 13 volumes total	San Francisco	1884-1890	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
281	Beechey, Captain Frederick W.	An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-'27: Reprinted from a Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, in 1825, '26, '27, '28	San Francisco	[1941]	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
282	Bolton, Herbert Eugene	Anza's California Expeditions	Berkeley	1930	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
283	Borthwick, John David	Three Years in California	Edinburgh and London	1857	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
284	Brewer, William H.	Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903	New Haven	1930	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
285	Brown, John Henry	Reminiscences and Incidents of Early Days of San Francisco (1845-50)	San Francisco	[1933]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
286	Burnett, Peter H.	Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer	New York	1880	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
287	[Dana, Richard Henry]	Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea	New York	1840	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
288	Davis, William Heath	Seventy-Five Years in California	San Francisco	1929	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
289	Forbes, Alexander	California: A History of Upper & Lower California from their First Discovery to the Present Time, comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A Full View of the Missionary Establishments and Condition of the	San Francisco	1919	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
290	Forbes, Alexander	California: A History of Upper and Lower California	San Francisco	1937	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
291	Fremont, John Charles	Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44	Washington	1845	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
292	Jackson, Helen Hunt	Ramona: A Story	Boston	1900	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
293	Manly, William Lewis	Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History	San Jose, CA	1894	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
294	Marryat, Frank	Two editions of Mountains and Molehills: Or Recollections of a Burnt Journal		1855	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
295	McGlashan, C.F.	History of the Donner Party. A Tragedy of the Sierra	Sacramento	1907	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
296	Muir, John	The Mountains of California	New York	1907	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
297	Palou, Francisco	Life of Ven. Padre Junipero Serra Written by Very Rev. Francis Palou, Guardian of the Convent of San Fernando, Mexico	San Francisco	1884	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
298	Revere, Joseph Warren	A Tour of Duty in California; including a Description of the Gold Region: and an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn...	New York; Boston	1849	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
299	Revere, Joseph Warren	A Tour of Duty in California; Including a Description of the Gold Region: And an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the Principal Events Attending the Conquest of the Californias	New York; Boston	1840	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
300	Robinson, Alfred	Life in California Before the Conquest: Hispano-Californians, Leperos, & Indians; Franciscan Misioneros & Misiones; American & English Comerciantes; Puertos, Presidios, Castillos; Sailors & Backwoodsmen; Revolutions & Strife	San Francisco	1925	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

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

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.