PBA Galleries: Fine Photography & Art, Fine Press, Fine Bindings, 860, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 02, 2026 - April 02, 2026
Page Size: 372 items in 15 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
178 Kipling, Rudyard

With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D.

San Francisco 1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
179 Moliere, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]

Tartuffe: Comedy in Five Acts, 1669

San Francisco 2004 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
180 Sappho

Poetry of Sappho

San Francisco 2011 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
181 Shakespeare, William

Venus & Adonis: Together with Sources for the Poem in Ovid's Metamorphoses

San Francisco 1975 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
182 Sterne, Laurence

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

San Francisco 1988 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
183 Vidal, Gore

Williwaw

San Francisco 1996 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
184 Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence

San Francisco 2004 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
185 Tyler, Ron

Audubon's Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America

Austin [1993] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
186

The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles [with] A Leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal

San Francisco 1968; 1977 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
187 Wikgren, Allen P.

A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535

San Francisco 1974 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,500.00
188 Biggers, Don Hampton

Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts

[Lubbock, Texas] [1991] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
189 Young, Edward

The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

London 2005 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 625.00
190 Boetticher, Budd

When in Disgrace

Santa Barbara 1989 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
191 Reagh, William

A Long Walk Downtown: Photographs of Los Angeles & Southern California, 1936-1991

San Francisco 2012 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
192 Weber, Francis J.

Following Bernhardt Wall 1872-1956

Austin 1994 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
193 Bradbury, Ray

The Martian Chronicles

Avon, CT 1974 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
194 Aeschylus

The Oresteia of Aeschylus printed in Robert Prockter's Greek Type

London 1904 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
195 Kinsella, W.P.

The First & Last Annual Six Towns Area Old Timers' Baseball Game

Minneapolis 1991 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
196 Homer

Die Odysssee. Neu ins Deutsche ubertragen von Rudolf Alexander Schroder

Weimar [1907] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
197 Nietzsche, Friedrich

Also Sprach Zarathustra: Eine Buch Fur Alle und Keinen

Leipzig [1908] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
198 Kafka, Franz

Metamorphosis

New York [1984] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
199

The Book of Job from the King James Bible with Wood Engravings by Gustav Wolf...

[Cummington, MA] 1944 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
200 Joyce, James

The Mookse and the Gripes. From Two Tales of Shem and Shaun.

Portage, Indiana 1977 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
201 D'Ambrosio, Joseph

Literary Figures

Portage, Indiana 1978 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
202 Simon, Oliver and Stanley Morrison, editors

The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography - No. VII

Cambridge 1930 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.
    Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.
    Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
    Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950