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
27

Account of the Gold Region--The Apoplexy of Gold. California Fever in England [wrapper title]

 1849 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
28

Illustrations of Napa County California with Historical Sketch

 Oakland, CA 1878 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,375.00
29

Block book for the Western Addition district of San Francisco

 San Francisco c.1900 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
30 Chesse, Ralph

Quatr'z Arts Ball program

 San Francisco 1929 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
31

Collection of World's Fair ephemera

 San Francisco 1939-40, mostly USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
32

Petition for Relief [with] Statement of Facts Concerning a Fraud on the United States Government

 [1867] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
33

Portola's Festival Official Souvenir Program

 San Francisco 1909 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
34

San Francisco, Cal.

 San Francisco 1894 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
35

State Board Harbor Commissioners [cover title]

 San Francisco [1864-1873] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
36 Sunderland, Clyde

Twenty-two negatives of photographs of a flying boat over San Francisco Bay

 Oakland 1938-1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
37

Swimming Championships of the Pacific Coast: Sutro Baths, Friday, July 4, 1913

 San Francisco 1913 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,625.00
38

Sutro Baths and Museum

 San Francisco No date USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
39

Woodward's Gardens, San Francisco

 San Francisco c.1870's-1880's USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
40

Woodward's Gardens: Illustrated Guide and Catalogue

 San Francisco 1875 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 875.00
41 Whitney, J.D.

The Yosemite Guide-Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada and of the Big Trees of California

 [Sacramento] 1869 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 531.25
42 Bruff, J. Goldsborough

Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, Captain, Washington City and California Mining Association, April 2, 1849 - July 20, 1851

 New York 1944 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
43 Ryan, William Redmond

Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines

 London 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
44 Ryan, William Redmond

Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California in 1848-9; with the Author's Experiences at the Mines

 London 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
45

All About California and the Inducements to Settle There [For Gratuitous Circulation.]

 San Francisco 1870 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
46

Annual Report of the Controller of State, for the Year 1860

 Sacramento 1860 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
47 Beerz, Geo. A.

Vasquez; or, The Hunted Bandits of the San Joaquin. Containing Thrilling Scenes and Incidents Among the Outlaws and Desperadoes of Southern California. With a Full and Accurate Account of the Capture, Trial, and Execution of the Noted Bandit

 [1875] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
48 Berger, Lawrence, editor

Archania: History and Register

 1929 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
49 Evans, Taliesin

Illustrated Hand Book of California and San Francisco

 San Francisco [1894] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
50 Holder, Charles Frederick, editor

The Californian Illustrated Magazine 1892-1894

 San Francisco 1891-1894 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 562.50
51 McLaren, John

Gardening in California Landscape and Flower

 San Francisco 1924 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
  • <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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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    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.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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