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
101	Berger, Lawrence, editor	Archania: History and Register		1929	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
102		California Guide Book...: The Lands of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad Companies...	San Francisco	[c.1882]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
103	Capron, Elisha S.	History of California, from Its Discovery to the Present Time; Comprising also a Full Description of its Climate, Surface, Soil... with a Journal of the Voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back, via Panama.	Boston; Cleveland, Ohio	1854	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
104		Five Blueprints of Early Depression Era Weber Dam Modifications	Placerville, CA	1929	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
105		Five items on fishing in California		1930-1938	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
106		Five volumes on maps of California		1942-1987	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
107	Hall, Ansel F.; Clarence King	Handbook of Yosemite National Park [with] Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada	New York and London; New York	1921; 1926	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
108		Illustrated Hand-book of California: Her Climate, Trade, Exports, &c. &c., Agricultural and Mineral Wealth	London	1870	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
109	Letts, J. M.	A Pictorial View of California; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes	New York	1853	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
110	Letts, J. M.	A Pictorial View of California; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes with Information and Advice Interesting to All, Particularly Those Who Intend to Visit the Golden Region by a Returned Californian	New York	1853	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
111		Naval Sketches of the War in California [with] The California Star [and] Monterey: Adobe Capital of California		1939-1968	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
112		Pacific Bank Handbook of California	San Francisco	1888	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
113		Panoramic View of Lone Pine, California		c. 2000	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
114	Paulson, L. L., ed.	Hand-Book and Directory of Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Mateo Counties, Including a Map of each County	San Francisco	1875	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Unknown
115	[Pinney, G.W.]	The New Education. Objections to the System as Taught in the University of California, Together with the Memorial of the California State Grange and Mechanics' Deliberative Assembly	Oakland	1874	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
116	Porter, Bruce, et. al.	Art in California: A survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition	San Francisco	1916	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
117	Putnam, Claude G.	Southern California's Sunshine Empire and Golden Coast [wrapper title]	San Bernardino, CA	1963	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
118	Ryan, William Redmond	Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines	London	1850	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
119	Ryan, William Redmond	Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines	London	1850	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
120	Seyd, Ernest	California and its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant	London	1858	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Unknown
121		Three gelatin silver photographs of a power house and saw mills at Westwood, California	Westwood, CA	1914-05-01	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
122		Transients in California	San Francisco	1936	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
123	Trask, John B. with Dr. A. Kellogg and Robert E. C. Stearns	Three works on the Geology of California		1855-1908	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
124	Trask, John B.	Four reports by John B. Trask on the Geology of California	Sacramento	1853-1856	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
125	Truman, Ben C.	Tourists' Illustrated Guide to the Celebrated Summer and Winter Resorts of California Adjacent to and Upon the Lines of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroads	San Francisco	1883	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.