PBA Galleries: PBA Platinum, 858, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026

Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	Dick, Philip K.	A Handful of Darkness	London	[1955]	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
27	Dick, Philip K.	A Maze of Death	Garden City, New York	1970	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,375.00
28	Dick, Philip K.	Typed letter signed by Philip K. Dick addressed to his ex-wife Tessa	Santa Ana, CA	1979-04-02	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
29	Dick, Philip K.	World of Chance	London	[1956]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,500.00
30	Forster, John	The Life of Charles Dickens	London	1872-1874	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	Not Sold
31	Dickens, Charles	The Works of Charles Dickens	London	[1906]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
32	Poe, Edgar Allan	The Raven	New York	1884	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
33	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	London	1892	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
34		Press photograph of Albert Einstein with pipe		print date: 1935	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
35	Einstein, Albert	Zur Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie		1923	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
36	Epitome Astronomiae	Maestlin, Michael	Tubingen	1588	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
37	Eusebius of Caesarea	Eusebii Pamphili, episcopi Caesareae, quae est Palaestinae, De vita Co[n]stantini Imperat. libri quinq[ue]	Paris	1546	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
38	Fennell, Charles E.	Map of San Francisco - Great Park Homestead Association	San Francisco	1869	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
39	Slater, John C. and Nathaniel H. Frank	Introduction to Theoretical Physics	New York and London	1933	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 21,250.00
40	Milner, Henry M.	The Man and the Monster! Or, the Fate of Frankenstein; A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts...	London	[1826]	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
41	Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	The General in His Labyrinth	New York	1990	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
42	Garcia Marquez, Gabriel	Love in the Time of Cholera	New York	1988	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,812.50
43	Gentz, Wilhelm and Ismael, with Leopold Mueller and Charles Welsch	Nine original drawings used as prototypes for illustrations in Georg Ebers's Aegypten in Bild und Wort [with] complete sets of the German and English first editions		c. 1870s	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
44	Gibson, William	Virtual Light	New York	1993	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
45	Blake, William	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A reading & study	New York	1993	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
46	Grey, Zane	Hand-written manuscript for Gladiator of the Sea		c. 1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
47	Grey, Zane	Manuscript articles hand-written in binder		c. 1935	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,250.00
48	Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch	L'Annonciateur du Bien qui Viendra: Premier Appel a L'Humanite Actuelle (The Herald of the Coming Good)	Paris	1933	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,500.00
49		Solid train load of Hickmott's Bouldin Island Asparagus Shipped August 1900 to fill partly the orders from one of the eastern markets	San Francisco	1900	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
50	Hobbes, Thomas	Elements of Philosophy, The First Section Concerning Body. Written in Latine by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. And now translated into English. To which are added six lessons to the professors of mathematicks of the institution of Sr. Henry Savile, in the U	London	1656	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.

ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.

ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
Chiswick Auctions
Books & Works on Paper
12th March 2026

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.

Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.