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PBA Galleries: Rare & Antiquarian Books

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare & Antiquarian Books Total Sales (USD) 49,343.75
Auction Date November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 64,800.00
Sale Number #851 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 99,900.00
Total Lots 383
Sold Lots 180.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 165,700.00
% of Lots Sold 47.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 255,700.00
Unsold Lots 203 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 19.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
349

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[1956] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
192 Chagall, Marc

Illustrations for the Bible

[1956] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
242 Frei, Georg and Neil Printz, editors

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne

2002-2014 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
19 Bravo, Lola Alvarez

Diego Rivera - press photo

No date USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
48 Erwitt, Elliott

Personal Exposures

1988 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 812.50
160 Sudek, Josef

Josef Sudek Fotografie

1956 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
226

Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. VIII, Nos. 29 et 30

[1954] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
239 Warhol, Andy with Bob Colacello

Andy Warhol's Exposures

1980 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
343

The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
63 Garrod, Richard

Virgin River, Zion National Park

c.2000 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
85 Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor

An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion

[1939] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
165 Von Unwerth, Ellen

Revenge

[2003] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
338 [Beardsley, Aubrey, et al.]

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly

1894-1897 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 593.75
215 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig and Ludwig Glaeser

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Drawings in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

[1969] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 562.50
184 Laurvik, J. Nilsen

Is It Art?

1913 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
303

Fifteen miniature books from Wallace Nethery, Shaker Press, Sierra Trails Press, UML-H, Wild Hare Press, Weather Bird Press, Phil Weygand, a Yankee Dauber and The Yellow Kid Press

1964-2003 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
168 Weber, Bruce

Bear Pond

1990 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
29

Scaffold photograph from the execution of E.W. Hawkins - the last legal hanging in Tucson

1908 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
127

Photograph album of horse racing in Uruguay

1947-1953 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
134

Photograph album of U.S. soldier in Kolkata during World War II

1945 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
183 Ambar Past, Xun Okotz, Xpetra Ernandez, et al.

Incantations of Mayan Women

2005 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
341

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back

1983 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
246 Wyeth, Andrew & Betsy James

Wyeth at Kuerners [and] Christina's World

1976 [and] 1982 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.25
276

The Bible in Miniature or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments

1780 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
28 Bullock, Wynn

Correspondence between Wynn Bullock and William Dellenback

1960-61 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.