PBA Galleries: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction - At Pasadena, 830, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025
Page Size: 127 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Vinston, Warren C., compiler

The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide

Los Angeles 14916 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
2 Altus

Mutus Liber in quo tamen tota Philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus, authore cujus nomen est Altus

No place c.1978? USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
3

Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum Omnes Sopho-Spagyricae Artis Discipulos Fidelissime Erudiens...

Frankfurt and Leipzig 1749 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
4 Augustine, Saint

Of the Citie of God: with the Learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J.H.

[London] 1610 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
5 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. A Novel

London 1833 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
6 [Austen, Jane]

Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes

London 1813 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 93,750.00
7 Picart, Bernard, et al., illustrators

Scenes from the Principal Histories of the Old and New Testaments [Taferelen der Voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament]

In's Graavenhaage [The Hague] 1728-1729 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
8

Biblj Czeska, to gest: Swate Pjsmo, podle Starozitneho, a Obecneho Latinskeho [with] Druhy djl Biblj totizto Nowy Zakon podle stareho obecneho latinskeho textu

W Starem Meste Prazskem [i.e. Prague] 1769-1771 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
9

The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin

Printed at Rhemes [i.e. Rheims] 1582 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
10 Tremellius, Immanuel and Franciscus Junius, translators

Testamenti veteris biblia sacra sive libri canonici... Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti...

Londini [i.e. London] 1580 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
11 Bory de St.-Vincent, Jean-Baptiste Genevieve Marcellin

Voyage dans les quatres principales iles des mers d'Afrique pendant les annees neuf et dix de la Republique (1801 et l802), avec l'histoire de la traversee du Capitaine Baudin jusqu'au Port-Louis de l'ile Maurice

Paris 1804 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
12 Calder, Alexander

Derrier Le Miroir: Calder Stabiles

Paris 1963 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
13

Manuscript document on vellum regarding a land claim by Antonio Maria Pico and Henry M. Naglee

Washington, D.C. March 10, 1865 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
14

Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad

1867-1915 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
15 Knapp, E.B., publisher

Early Days in San Francisco: The Days of Old, The Days of Gold, The Days of Forty Nine. Scenes Familiar to Every Pioneer. A Limited Edition Only

San Francisco Undated (c.1860-1880?) USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
16

Archive of material relating to California pioneer Harmon J. (H.J.) Tilden and his family

Various places 1852-c.1935 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
17

Archive of 14 deeds for land in San Francisco, plus an abstract of title and a manuscript survey map.

San Francisco 1851-1875 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
18 Carver, Jonathan

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768

London 1778 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
19 Winship, George Parker

William Caxton and the First English Press: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay... Together with an Original Leaf of the Polycronicon

New York 1938 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,500.00
20 Alken, Henry Thomas

Illustrations to Don Quixote. Designed by Henry Alken. Engraved by John Zeitter. And Dedicated to the Memory of Cervantes

London 1831 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
21 Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso

A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha

London 1705 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
22 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

Madrid 1780 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
23 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Les principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, representees en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres; avec les explications des XXXI planches...

Liege 1776 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
24 Fung, H.K.

The Shop Signs of Peking

Peking [i.e. Beijing] [1931] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
25

Artillery shell from the Battleship Maine, the sinking of which in Havana Harbor triggered the Spanish American War

New Haven, CT c.1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00