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
202 Woyshner, Paul

He Did His Duty

 San Francisco 1917 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
203

Five volumes on WWII aviation

 1987-1995 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
204

Three view albums of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893

 Chicago 1892-1893 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
205 Raynolds, Bvt. Brig. Gen. W[illiam] F.

Report on the Exploration of the Yellowstone River...Communicated by the Secretary of War, in Compliance with a Resolution of Senate, February 13, 1866

 Washington DC 1868 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
206 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 1931 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
207 Brown, John Henry

Reminiscences and Incidents of Early Days of San Francisco (1845-50)

 San Francisco [1933] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
208 Davis, William Heath

Seventy-Five Years in California

 San Francisco 1929 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
209 Muir, John

The Mountains of California

 New York 1894 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
210 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 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
211 Stevenson, Robert Louis

Two copies of The Silverado Squatters

 1883-1952 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
212 Taylor, Bayard

Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire [with] Autograph letter signed by Bayard Taylor

 New York 1855 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
213 Vancouver, George

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of

 London 1798 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
214 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 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
215 Gunn, Douglas

Picturesque San Diego, With Historical and Descriptive Notes

 Chicago 1887 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 343.75
216 Alcott, Phebe Lewis, and Dr. William Andus Alcott

Letter by Mrs. Alcott and her husband about anti-slavery and vegetarian medicinal remedies

 Hartford, CT July 29-31, 1843 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 812.50
217 Bigler, William

Letter from the pro-Slavery Governor of Pennsylvania seeking reelection in the tumultuous antebellum year of political realignment

 [Harrisburg, Pennsylvania] May 20, 1854 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
218 Avalo y Elizalde, Maria Susan de

Letter written from Puebla, Mexico to the Elizalde and Erainqui families regarding family in California

 1877 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
219 Breckinridge, Rev. John

Letter to New York philanthropists, on returning from a four-month trip of 4000 miles, across 9 states

 New York 1838 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
220

Correspondence related to Catalina Island purse seine fishing and game laws

 1918-1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
221

Two Certificates of the Consignee, San Francisco maritime documents

 San Francisco 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
222

11 letters and notices addressed to Guillermo Carrillo, 19th c. Santa Barbara Californio manuscripts

 1857-1886 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
223 Halleck, Henry W.

Manuscript acknowledging receipt of land ownership documents, Santa Barbara, 1851

 Santa Barbara, CA 1851 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
224

Manuscript detailing cattle brand of Thomas Robbins of Santa Barbara with bull and brand drawing

 Santa Barbara, CA 1843 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,500.00
225

Manuscript document recording indentured servitude of Native American child, 1856

 Santa Barbara, CA 1856 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,500.00
226

Manuscript indenture lease, Santa Barbara 1850

 Santa Barbara, CA 1850 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.
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    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.
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    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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