PBA Galleries: Fine Photography & Art - Fine Press & Bindings - Illustrated & Children's Books, 864, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026
Page Size: 344 items in 14 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adams, Ansel; Baer, Morley; Byers, Robert K.; Garnett, William A.; Garrod, Richard; Gilpin, Henry; Scheel, Fred; Sexton, John; Weston, Brett; Worth, Don

Message from West Coast: A Portfolio of Photographs

ca. 1940; 1975; 1982; 1983; 1976; 1981; 1980; 1971; 1958 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,125.00
2 Adams, Kerstin; Adams, Robert

Sally

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
3

Navy photo album, Kodiak Naval Base

N/A USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
4

Algerie 1878

c. 1878 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
5

Photograph album of antiquities in Italy and Egypt

N/A USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
6 Avedon, Richard; Capote, Truman

Observations

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
7 Avedon, Richard

Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977

1947-1977 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
8 Bippus, Carlos

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
9 Bonaparte, Roland 1858-1924

Standing Bear

1883 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
10 Burnstine, Susan

Absence of Being

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
11 Byers, Robert K.

Minnie

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
12 Calle, Sophie; Balducci, Fabio

En Finir

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
13 Caponigro, Paul

Rock Wall, CT, 1959

1959 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
14 Caponigro, Paul

Water Pool, White Mountains, NH

N/A USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
15 Chi, Chu

金陵古蹟名勝影集. Nanking

N/A USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
16 Mennie, Donald

China North and South

1914-1927 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 562.50
17

Scenic China

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
18

Views of China

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
19 Dahi, Soheyl

Oh! Tehran!; Yellow

San Francisco 2018; 2026 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
21 Espada Frank

Original photograph

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
22 Adams Robert; Winogrand Garry

2 Books, including: Robert Adams

San Francisco 2005; 2007 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
23 Friedlander Lee

Sticks and Stones; Signs

San Francisco 2004; 2019 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
24 Friedlander Lee

The Little Screens; Mannequin

San Francisco 2001; 2004 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
25 Friedlander Lee

Flowers and Trees

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
26 Friedman Ken

Bruce Springsteen

1985 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.