Auction House Details

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.
Who do I contact if I have questions?
City Berkeley
State California
Country United States
Zipcode 94710
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

June 13, 2024 - June 13, 2024, Fine Photography, #815
June 20, 2024 - June 20, 2024, Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana & Maps - Fine Press - online 6/10, #2059
June 27, 2024 - June 27, 2024, Elite Americana & Travel, with Rare Cartography - A PBA Platinum Auction, #816
July 11, 2024 - July 11, 2024, Literature - Mysteries - Science Fiction - Counterculture, #817
July 18, 2024 - July 18, 2024, PBA Comics: The Atlas Sale, Part III, Marvel, #3036
July 25, 2024 - July 25, 2024, Children's Literature - Rare & Antiquarian, #818
August 01, 2024 - August 01, 2024, The DC Universe Collection Part 3: The Golden Age, #3037
August 08, 2024 - August 08, 2024, Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views, #819
August 22, 2024 - August 22, 2024, Fine Art - Fine Press - Fine Bindings, #820
September 05, 2024 - September 05, 2024, Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture, #821
September 19, 2024 - September 19, 2024, Rare Books and Manuscripts - A PBA Platinum Auction, #822
September 26, 2024 - September 26, 2024, Weird Tales and Amazing Stories: A PBA Pulp Sale, #3038
October 03, 2024 - October 03, 2024, Fine Photography, #823
October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024, Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Photographs, Art - Online 9/30, #2060
October 17, 2024 - October 17, 2024, Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture, #824
October 31, 2024 - October 31, 2024, Strange Tales: The Steve Ditko Collection Part 3, #3039
November 07, 2024 - November 07, 2024, Americana - U.S. Presidents - Travel and Exploration - Maps, Prints and Views, #825
November 14, 2024 - November 14, 2024, The DC Universe Collection Part4: Superman, #3040

  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: U.S. / European Shipping Archive 1800-1814. The Widow Bermingham & Sons Collection. €7,000 to €10,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Bunreacht na hÉireann. Constitution of Ireland. An important copy of the First Printing of De Valera’s new Constitution, approved in 1938. Signed by the Constitution Cabinet. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €7,000 to €9,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. Magnificent Hand-Coloured Copy - Only 25 Copies. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Cantillon (Richard). Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, Traduit de l'Anglois, Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Gregory, (Lady Augusta). Spreading the News: The Rising of the Moon: The Poorhouse (with Douglas Hyde). Being Vol. IX of the Abbey Theatre Series. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Lavery (Lady Hazel). A moving series of three A.L.S. and a Telegram to Gen. Eoin O'Duffy, July-August 1927, expressing her grief at the death of Kevin O'Higgins. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Dampier (Wm.) Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde, ou l'on descrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique…, 2 vols. in one, Amsterdam, 1698. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Howell (James). Instructions for Forreine Travel Shewing by what Cours, and in what Compasse of Time…, London, 1642. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Summer Rare Book
    & Collectors’ Sale
    July 30-31, 2024
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1999, First Edn., First Printing of Deluxe Collectors Edn. Signed. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: James (Wm.) A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of The Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America. 2 vols. Lond. 1818. €650 to €900.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, July 30-31: The Laws of the United States, Published by Authority, 3 vols. Philadelphia (Richard Folwell) 1796. €600 to €800.