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
76

Illuminated printed hours leaf on vellum

Paris? c.1533-1541 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,250.00
77 Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

Philadelphia & New York [1960] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
78

Five court transcripts and legal briefs relating to a lawsuit brought by the Fidelity Loan and Mortgage Company of Oakland against Jack London for breach of contract

Oakland, CA 1916 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
79

Tracts issued by the Loyal Publication Society, from Feb. 1, 1863, to Feb. 1, 1864

New York 1864-1865 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
80 Machiavelli, Niccolo

Machivel's Discourses upon the First Decade of T. Livius, Translated out of the Italian. To which is added his Prince. With some Marginal Animadversions Noting and Taxing his Errors. By E.D.

London 1663; 1661 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
81

The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England [with] Acts and Laws, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England

Boston 1726-1731 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
82 McKenney, Thomas L. & James Hall

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington

Philadelphia 1858 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,312.50
83 Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

New York 1851 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,000.00
84 Mesmer, Franz

[Aphorisms)

No place Late 18th-early 19th century USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,500.00
85 Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind

New York 1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,687.50
86 Boccherini, Luigi; Ignaz Pleyel

Sei Quintetti Per due Violini Alto et due Violoncelli Concertanti [with other works]

Paris and Lyon; London [c. 1770's-80's] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
87 Rose,T. F., H. C. Woolman, and T. T. Price

Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast, Illustrated

Philadelphia 1878 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
88 Newton, Isaac

The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, Newton's System of the World; a short comment on, and defence of the Principia, by W. Emerson, with the laws of the moon's

London 1803 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,125.00
89 Newton, Isaac

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber.

Amsterdam [&] Leiden 1714 [&] 1732 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
90 Newton, Isaac

A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English

London 1728 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
91 Herbert, Willian, translator

Select Icelandic Poetry, translated from the originals; with notes

London 1804-1806 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
92 Hawkins, E.B.

California mining-related archive of E.B. Hawkins of Applegate, Oregon

Applegate, Oregon c.1910-1924 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
93 Perry, Matthew Calbraith

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States

Washington 1856 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00
94

Archive of documents regarding the pious fund of the Colegio Maximo de San Pablo de Lima, c.1750

Peru c.1750-1760 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 Not Sold
95 [Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]

The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucanie

London 1699 & 1698 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
96 Plato

The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator

Glasgow 1763 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
97 Rae, Julio H.

Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory Panoramic Advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets

Philadelphia 1851 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,062.50
98

Collection of photographs, broadsides, books, pamphlets, documents, maps, and other items pertaining to railroads in the United States from the mid-19th century the first half of the 20th

Various places c.1851-1930s USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
99 Rorty, Richard

Three books inscribed from Richard Rorty to Hubert Dreyfus

1979-1991 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
100 Steinbeck, John

The Red Pony

New York 1937 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00