• Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€

PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Maps & Views, 837, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 01, 2025 - May 01, 2025
Page Size: 428 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Bentley, Rev. and Mrs. Charles

Letter from a New England minister about to reluctantly become Pastor of a Connecticut church bitterly divided over the issue of slavery

Harwinton, Connecticut June 23-24,1839 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
2 [Strother, David Hunter]

Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte Crayon and his Cousins

New York 1857 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Heffren, Horace

Speech of Hon. Horace Heffren of Washington and Harrison Counties [with] Report of the Minority of the House Committee

[Indianapolis?] 1861 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 531.25
4 Raphall, Rabbi Morris Jacob

"The Ethics of Slavery...The Bible View of Slavery, Dr. Raphall's Discourse in the Synagogue"

New York January 5, 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
5 Strine, Peter

Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves

[Columbia, Kentucky] December 23, 1862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
6 Niblack, William E., et al

Address of the Democratic Members of the General Assembly to the People of Indiana, Setting Forth...the Reasons why more had not been accomplished during its Constitutional Term

Indianapolis 1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
7 Burr, C. Chauncey, editor

The Old Guard, A Monthly Journal, Devoted to Literature, Science and Art, and the Principles of 1776 and 1787. Issue of April 1865

New York; Toronto; London April 1865 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
8 Steward, T.G.

The Colored Regulars In the United States Army

Philadelphia 1904 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
9 Pollard, Hughes

Autograph note by the jazz musician brother of Black sports legend Fritz Pollard (who integrated the National Football League)

New York c.1914 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
10 Larkin, John

The Empire. Holland's Vaudeville Entertainers Commencing Saturday Next, July 7th...Last Week! Last Week! of the Popular Favourites Paul Stanhope's Breezy Revue Coy...

Brisbane [1917] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
11 Pickett, Bill

The Norman Film Mfg. Co....Presents "The Bull-Dogger" Featuring Bill Pickett and the Greatest Array of World Champions Ever Assembled in a Motion Picture

Jacksonville, Illinois c. 1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
12

49th Annual Session - Missionary Baptist Sunday School and B.T.U. Congress of Kansas

Kansas City, Mo. 1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
13 Weaver, Robert C.

The Negro Ghetto

New York 1948 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
14

Elliottorian Business Women's Club. L'Eleganza Beaux Arts Ball '73

Detroit [1973] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 225.00
15

Acts and Laws for the State of Arkansas from 1866 to 1879

Little Rock 1867-1881 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
16

Sabbath Reading. Vol. VIII. No. 4...The Sweet By-and-By

New York 1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
17 Atcheson, Nathaniel

American Encroachments on British Rights; or Observations on the Importance of the British North American Colonies. And on the Late Treaties with the United States:...

London 1808 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
18 Atherton, Gertrude

The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California

New York 1902 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
19 Boyce, Col. J. Ward, editor

American Fighter Aces Album

[Mesa, AZ] [1996] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
20

Five volumes on WWII aviation

1987-1995 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
21

Five volumes on aviation

1990-1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
22

Spitfire--The Story of a Famous Fighter [with] The Art of William S. Phillips

1961-1994 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
23 Ruth, George Herman

Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

New York 1928 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
24

Nevada Tri-Weekly Herald

Nevada City, California 1878 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
25 Riley, James Whitcomb

All the Year Round

Indianapolis [1912] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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