PBA Galleries: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction - At Pasadena, 830, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Dryden, John | Alexander's Feast; or The Power of Music |
London, New York | 1904 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 52 | Milton, John | Comus, A Mask |
London | 1901 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 53 | Spenser, Edmund | Epithalamion |
London, New York | 1901 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 54 | Wordsworth, William | Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
London, New York | 1903 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 55 | Morris, William | Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair |
Hammersmith | 1895 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 56 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | Hand & Soul |
Hammersmith, England | [1895] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 57 | The Holy Gospel According to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John |
Verona | 1962 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 58 | Boccaccio, Giovanni | Le Decameron de Jean Boccace |
Londres [i.e. Paris] | 1757-1761 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 59 | Lu Hongnian (Hung-Nien), artist | Fore-edge painting of The Flight into Egypt [on] Tang lei han (Tang Lei Han ) |
17th century? (Painting: c.1936-1942) | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 6,875.00 | |
| 60 | Spinoza, Baruch | Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae Pars I, & II, More Geometrico demonstratae. Per Benedictum de Spinoza... |
Amsterdam | 1663 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 61 | Gerard, John | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London |
London | 1633 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 62 | Hawking, Stephen W. | A Brief History of Time |
New York | [1990] | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 63 | Hobbes, Thomas | Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie... |
London | 1651 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 64 | Holliday, George H. | On the Plains in '65... Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Thrilling Adventures, Fine Scenery, and How the Boys Put in the Time in the Far West |
[Wheeling, W. Va.?] | 1883 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 65 | 17 original photographs of race horses |
Various places | c.1920s | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 66 | [Hume, David] | Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding |
London | 1748 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,312.50 |
| 67 | Imbert, J.B.A. [Jean Baptiste Alban] | Manual do Fazendeiro, ou Tratado Domestico sobre as Enfermidades dos Negros |
Rio de Janeiro | 1834 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 68 | Piesse, Charles | Short Notes of a short Tour in Ireland by Charles Piesse |
Dublin | 1842 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 69 | Eisen, Keisai, attrib. | Album of ten double-page erotic woodblock prints |
Japan | 19th century | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 70 | Jefferys, Thomas | The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies... |
London | 1775 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 10,625.00 |
| 71 | Joyce, James | Ulysses |
New York | 1935 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 72 | Kerouac, Jack | Typescript letter by Jack Kerouac, 1947 |
No place | 1947 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 73 | La Condamine, Charles-Marie de | Journal du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'Equateur [with] Mesure des Trois Premiers Degres du Meridien dans l'Hemisphere Austral |
Paris | 1751 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 74 | Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de | Philosophie Zoologique |
Paris | 1809 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 28,125.00 |
| 75 | 15th century illuminated manuscript leaf with full-page illustration of the Crucifixion |
Paris? | c.1475 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,125.00 |