PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views, 853, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 467 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227

Manuscript letter from Thomas M. Robbins to [James] Scott regarding horses commandeered by American troops

 Santa Barbara, CA 1849 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 625.00
228

Manuscript mortgage agreement Santa Barbara, 1855

 Santa Barbara, CA 1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
229

Three manuscripts from Santa Barbara county related to a contract for the delivery of cattle

 Santa Barbara, CA 1857-1867 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
230

Three manuscripts from Santa Barbara county, two property deeds and one handwritten letter

 1874-1899 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
231

Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba

 Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba 1869 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
232

Contrata for a Chinese laborer ("colono") in Matanzas, Cuba

 Jurisdiccion de Matanzas, Cuba 1867 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
233

Manuscript legal depositions from an investigation into shipboard deaths of Chinese laborers bound for Cuba

 Cuba c.1860s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
234

Municipal list of Chinese indentured servants still waiting for contract renewal

 Matanzas, Cuba 1873 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
235

Municipal list of Chinese indentured servants waiting for contract renewal

 Matanzas, Cuba 1872 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
236

Primitive contract in Chinese and Spanish for Chinese indentured servant in Cuba

 Havana, Cuba 1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
237

Registry of Asian and Yucatan indentured workers in Cuba

 Cuba c. 1860 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
238

Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay

 Guanajay, Cuba 1869 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
239

Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay

 Guanajay, Cuba 1869 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
240

Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay

 Guanajay, Cuba 1869 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
241

Tenencia de Gobierno de Guanajay

 Guanajay, Cuba 1869 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
242

Document recording the arrival of African "bozales" slaves to Cuba

 Havana, Cuba 1798 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
243

Expediente of African slave in Cuba on trial for beating another slave

 Cuba 1848-1849 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
244

List of African Cuban slaves who have left the jurisdiction 1866

 Cardenas, Cuba 1866 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
245

List of Chinese cimarrones held in slave depository in Matanzas, Cuba

 Matanzas, Cuba 1878 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
246

Manuscript document discussing the sale of 12 year old African slave

 Cuba 1872 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
247

Manuscript document discussing the sale of Dolores, an African slave

 Cuba 1869 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
248

Testimony of moreno asking to be paid

 Matanzas, Cuba 1881 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
249

Testimony of moreno, Dionisio [with] Expediente of Dionisio

 Cuba 1883 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
250

Three logs of slaves captured in the Spanish Antilles

 Cuba c. 1805 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
251

Archive of documents from the Trinidad, Cuba, military hospital during the Cuban War of Independence, with ledgers and invoices for purchases

 Trinidad, Cuba 1895-1899 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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