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PBA Galleries

Auction House Name	PBA Galleries
Site URL	https://www.pbagalleries.com
About Us	PBA Galleries is the largest and most successful specialty auction house. A 30 year tradition of offering at auction the finest rare books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, atlases, prints and photographs. PBA conducts approximately twenty-five gallery auctions in a calendar year auctions of rare books, manuscripts, historic autographs and archives, maps, atlases, prints and photographs. Most clients place bids on line before the auction through their dynamic bidding platform at www.pbagalleris.com. As a service to clients unable to attend the sale, PBA Galleries accepts absentee bids by fax, phone and email without charge in advance of the sale. Telephone bidding the day of the auction can be scheduled.
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City	San Francisco
State	California
Country	United States
Zipcode	94109
Contact Number	(415)989-2665
Buyer's Fee	As used herein the term "bid price" means the price at which a lot is knocked down to the purchaser and the term "purchase price" means the aggregate of (a) the bid price (b) a premium of twenty percent (20%) on the first $100,000 of the bid price and fif
Consigner's Fee	PBA Galleries charges a commission rate per item of 15% for the first $10,000, and 10% for the amount above $10,000. The commission is all encompassing and includes insurance, cataloguing, storage, advertising, online services, photography and other misce

AUCTION LIST

03/24/2022 - 02/24/2022, Fine Literature - Bukowski - Counterculture, #757

03/31/2022 - 03/31/2022, Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana & Maps - bidstart 3/21, #2050

04/07/2022 - 04/07/2022, The Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection with Photography and Fine Art, #758

04/21/2022 - 04/21/2022, The Charles Fracchia Collection, Part I: Letter Sheets & Maps, #759

05/05/2022 - 05/05/2022, Americana - Travel - Maps, #761

05/12/2022 - 05/12/2022, Golf - Books, Clubs and Memorabilia, #760

05/19/2022 - 05/19/2022, Fine Literature, #762

06/02/2022 - 06/02/2022, Rare Books and Manuscripts, #763

06/09/2022 - 06/09/2022, Comic Books, #3024

06/09/2022 - 06/09/2022, Comic Books, #3024

06/16/2022 - 06/16/2022, Antiquarian Books & More, with Fine Bindings & Sets, #764

06/30/2022 - 06/30/2022, Elite Americana - APBA Platinum Auction, #765

07/07/2022 - 07/07/2022, Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana & Maps - Timed Online Auction - bidstart 6/27, #2051

07/14/2022 - 07/14/2022, Fine Literature, #766

07/28/2022 - 07/28/2022, Fine Art and Photography, #767

08/11/2022 - 08/11/2022, Americana - Travel and Exploration - Cartography, #768

<b><center>Sotheby’s<br> The Library of Henry Rogers<br>Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven<br>Part I<br>18 May 2022</b>

<b>Sotheby’s, May 18:</b> John James Audubon and James Bachman. <i>The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.</i> New York: J.J. Audubon, 1845-1848. £150,000 to £250,000.

<b>Sotheby’s, May 18:</b> Thomas and William Daniell. <i>Oriental Scenery,</i> London, 1795-1807 [but 1841], 6 parts in 3 volumes, folio. £150,000 to £200,000.

<b>Sotheby’s, May 18:</b> Mark Catesby. <i>The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...</i> London, 1731-1743, 2 volumes. £100,000 to £150,000.

<b>Sotheby’s, May 18:</b> Gould and Lear. <i>A monograph of the Ramphastidae,</i> 1854; <i>Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae,</i> 1832. £60,000 to £90,000.
<center><b>Swann Auction Galleries<br>Graphic Design<br>May 19, 2022</b>

<b>Swann May 19:</b> Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, <i>Triplex,</i> pencil maquette, 1930. $25,000 to $35,000.

<b>Swann May 19:</b> Claude Fayette Brandon, <i>The Chap Book,</i> circa 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Swann May 19:</b> Various Artists, a complete set of <i>Das Plakat,</i> set of 10 hardcover volumes, 1912-21. $25,000 to $35,000.

<b>Swann May 19:</b> Javier Gómez Acebo & Máximo Viejo Santamarta, <i>San Sebastian / XI Circuitto Automovilista,</i> 1935. $10,000 to $15,000.

<b>Swann May 19:</b> Ephraim Moses Lilien, <i>Berliner Tageblatt,</i> circa 1899. $12,000 to $18,000.
<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>26th May 2022</b>

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Birds.- Gould (John). <i>The Birds of Great Britain,</i> 5 vol., first edition, [1862-]1873. £40,000 to £60,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Canadiana.- Cockburn (Maj. Gen. James Pattison, 1779-1847), After. [Six Landscape of Quebec City and Six Views of Niagara Falls], 2 suites in 1 vol., comprising 12 aquatints, 1833. £30,000 to £40,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Joyce (James). <i>Ulysses,</i> number 218 of 150 copies on verge d'arches, Paris, Shakespeare & Company, 1922. £15,000 to £20,000.

<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>26th May 2022</b>

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Rowling (J.K.) <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,</i> first paperback edition, signed by the author, 1997. £15,000 to £20,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Du Maurier (Daphne). <i>Rebecca,</i> first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess, 1938. £12,000 to £18,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Magna Carta.- An exact copy of King John's Great Charter of 1215, transcribed from the fire damaged but legible manuscript in the Cottonian Library, British Library, J. Pine, 1733. £10,000 to £15,000.

<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>26th May 2022</b>

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Woolf (Virginia). <i>Mrs Dalloway,</i> first edition, Hogarth Press, 1925. £10,000 to £15,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Tudor exiles opposed to the Marian regime.- Mary I (Queen of England) Letter signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene", 1556. £8,000 to £10,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> America.- Newfoundland.- Whitbourne (Sir Richard). <i>A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land…,</i> second edition, By Felix Kingston, 1622. £6,000 to £8,000.

<b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>26th May 2022</b>

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de). <i>El Ingenioso Hidalgo Do Quixote de la Mancha,</i> 4 vol., Madrid, Por Don Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. £5,000 to £7,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Stubbs (George). <i>The Anatomy of the Horse,</i> first edition, first issue, Printed by J. Purser, for the Author, 1766. £6,000 to £8,000.

<b>Forum, May 26:</b> Cardiology.- Lower (Richard). <i>Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu,</i> first edition, 1669. £5,000 to £7,000.
<center><b>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction on May 30</b>

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>Initial A on vellum, Cologne around 1300. Est: €25,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>J. Androuet du Cerceau, <i> Bastiments de France,</i> 1607. Est: €12,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>E. Cerillo, <i>Dipinti murali di Pompei,</i> 1886. Est: €2,500

<center><b>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction on May 30</b>

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>L. de Austria, <i>Compilatio de astrorum scientia,</i> 1489. Est: €9,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>B. Besler, <i>Hortus Eystettensis,</i> around 1750. Est: €50,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br><i>PAN,</i> 1895-1900. Est: €15,000

<center><b>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction on May 30</b>

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>F. Colonna, <i>Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,</i> 1545. Est: €40,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>F. Schiller, <i>Die Räuber,</i> 1781. Est: €12,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>J. Albers, <i>Formulation : Articulation,</i> 1972. Est: €18,000

<center><b>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction on May 30</b>

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>G. B. Ramusio, <i>Delle navigationi e viaggi,</i> 1556-1613. Est: €14,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>M. Wied Neuwied, <i>Reise in das Innere Nord-America,</i> 1839-41. Est: €12,000

<b>Ketterer Rare Books, May 30:</b><br>E. Paolozzi, <i>Bunk,</i> 1972. Est: €25,000