PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps & Views, 849, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 406 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Adams, Ansel	Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs	Boston	[1983]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
2		Photograph album of an African American family		Early to mid 20th century	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
3	White, Maunsel	Printed newsletter to plantation owners about the depressed cotton crop during the economic recession of the 1840s	New Orleans	July 14, 1843	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 312.50
4	Lewis, Hannah	Letter from a Pennsylvania Quaker woman travelling near the Virginia and Maryland borders, who stays with an Underground Railroad conductor	Dunnings Creek, Pennsylvania	[August] 22, 1858	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
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]	1862	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
6	[Van Evrie, John H.]	Free Negroism: or, Results of Emancipation in the North and West India Islands, with Statistics of the Decay of Commerce--Idleness of the Negro--His Return to Savageism, and the Effect of Emancipation upon the Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes	New York; Toronto; London	1863	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
7	Hoskinson, Thomas J. [Captain, Pennsylvania Infantry]	Letter from wounded Union officer, a McClellan Democrat	Erie, PA	1864	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
8	Kingsbury, Mrs. Elizabeth A.	Letter from a professional woman anti-Slavery lecturer	Whately, MA	July 1, 1864	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 687.50
9	Lewis, John	Civil War letter from a Quaker missionary teacher of formerly enslaved children in Union-occupied Williamsburg, Virginia	F.F. [Freedmen's Fund] store, "Slabtown", VA	December 25, 1864	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,375.00
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 400.00 - 600.00	USD 312.50
11	Murphy, Beatrice M., ed.	Ebony Rhythm: An Anthology Of Contemporary Negro Verse	New York	1948	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 500.00
12	Wesley, Charles H.	History of Sigma Pi Phi: First of the Negro-American Greek-Letter Fraternities	Washington DC	[1969]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
13	Alvarez, Francisco	Noticia del Establecimiento y Poblacion de las Colonias Inglesias en la America Septentrional....	Madrid	1778	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 437.50
14	Andre, Major John	Andre's Journal: An Authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the British Army in America from June 1777 to November 1778...	Boston	1903	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
15	Hutchinson, Titus	Letter from a former Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, with a political footnote about his opposition to Masonic influence in government	Woodstock, VT	July 19, 1834	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 406.25
16	Harte, Bret, Ina Coolbrith, Helen Hunt Jackson et al.	The Argonaut - 5 issues comprising Vol. XVII Nos. 23-26 and Vol. XVIII No. 1	San Francisco; Monterey	1885-86	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
17	Hillers, John K.	Albumen photo of Dechelley Canyon		c. 1874	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
18		Photograph album documenting the construction of the Piney Creek Bridge		[1931]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
19		Archive of photographs and letters of Japanese Hawaiian family		c. 1950s	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
20	Audubon, John James and John Bachman	The Quadrupeds of North America	New York	1854	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 5,000.00
21	Austin, James T.	The Life of Elbridge Gerry. With Contemporary Letters. To the Close of the American Revolution. [bound with] The Life of Elbridge Gerry. With Contemporary Letters. From the Close of the American Revolution.	Boston	1828-1829	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 750.00
22		Five volumes on WWII aviation		1987-1995	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
23		Avon and Perfection Products	Kansas City, New York, Montreal	[1931]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
24	Badger, Mrs. C.M.	Wild Flowers Drawn and Colored From Nature	New York	1859	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
25	Bagley, Will, et. al., editors	Kingdom in the West Series Volumes 1-7, 10-12 & 14 - The Mormons and the American Frontier	Spokane, WA [and] Norman, OK	1997-2013	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 137.50

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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