PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian Books - The Occult, 867, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | Darwin Charles | The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 228 | Dawkins Richard | The Selfish Gene |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
| 229 | Edwards William Henry | The Butterflies of North America |
1884; 1888 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 | |
| 230 | Cassell's Book of Birds |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 | ||
| 231 | Maeterlinck Maurice; Fabre Jean-Henri | The Life of the Bee; Fabre's Book of Insects |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 | |
| 232 | Loudon Jane | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,062.50 | |
| 233 | Loudon Jane | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,625.00 | |
| 234 | Loudon Jane | The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,250.00 | |
| 235 | Mayer | Pomona Franconica |
1801 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 | |
| 236 | Lunzer Alois | The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 237 | Observations regarding the Salmon Fishery of Scotland |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 281.25 | ||
| 238 | The Cenotes of Yucatan: A Zoological and Hydrographic Survey |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 239 | Barreliero Jacques | Plantarum per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observatarum icones |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
| 240 | d'Orbigny Charles Henry Dessalines | Plates from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 241 | d'Orbigny Charles Henry Dessalines | Plates from the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 242 | Plinius Secundus C | The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
| 243 | Plot Robert (1640-96) | The Natural History of Stafford-Shire |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 244 | Rousseau; Martyn Thomas | Letters on the Elements of Botany |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 | |
| 245 | Sea Mosses |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 246 | Seitz | Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: Supplement I; Supplement II |
N/A | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 247 | Tristram Henry Baker | The Survey of Western Palestine: The Fauna and Flora of Palestine |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 248 | Valentini Michael Bernhard (1657-1729) | Amphitheatrum Zootomicum |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 249 | North American Wild Flowers |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 625.00 | ||
| 250 | Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 | ||
| 251 | Darwinism |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000