PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian Books - The Occult, 867, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
Page Size: 418 items in 17 pages
Auction Lot Books
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
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, 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-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, 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