PBA Galleries: Elite Americana & Travel with Rare Maps - A PBA Platinum Auction, 841, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 03, 2025 - July 03, 2025
Page Size: 54 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Franklin, Benjamin

Autograph letter signed from Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan

London 1762 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 28,125.00
27

Nineteenth-century gold quartz cane with engraved handle

1850-1880's USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,500.00
28 Harris, John

Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above Six Hundred of the Most Authentic Writers...Containing Whatever Has Been Observed Worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa & America...To Whi

London 1744; 1748 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,312.50
29 Hooker, Joseph Dalton and Walter Hood Fitch

Illustrations of Himalayan Plants chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart Esq.

London 1855 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,250.00
30 Hooker, Joseph Dalton

The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from Drawings and Descriptions made on the spot, during a Government Botanical Mission to th

London 1849-1851 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
31 Kane, Paul

Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America, From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again

London 1859 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
32 La Harpe, Jean-Francois de

Atlas Pour L'Abrege des Voyages

Paris [1780] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
33 Gass, Patrick

A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean During th

Pittsburgh 1807 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,312.50
34 Mackenzie, Alexander

Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country

London 1801 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
35

Four original photographs of the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. refinery in Mexico

[Mexico] [c.1900] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
37 "Tedy" of Tel Aviv

Meyachor Gador Tayil [mkhvry gdr tyl] ("Behind a Barbed Wire Fence...[with laughter]")

Tel Aviv, British Palestine [c.1947] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
38 Playfair, William

The Commercial and Political Atlas...

London 1801 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
39 Portlock, Nathaniel

A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon

London 1789 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
40 Bob Jingle, Esq. [pseud.]

The Association, &c. of the Delegates of the Colonies, at the Grand Congress, Held at Philadelphia, Sept. 1 1774...

[New York?] 1774 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
41 Rogers, Woodes

A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope...

London 1718 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
42 Gerard de la Barthe

Vue de la Porte Sainte et de ses Environs a Moscou

Moscow 1799 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
43

Nova Tabula Geographica Imperii Russici in Guberno Divisi Edita 1787

1787 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
44 Schenk, Pieter

Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta

[Holland and West Frisia] 1702 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
45

A List of His Majesty's Royal Navy

[London?] 1800 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
46 Shelvocke, George

A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 Guns and 100 Men, (under His Majesty's Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown) till sh

London 1736 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,375.00
47 Stein, Aurel

Eight offprints from The Geographical Journal

1916-42 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
48 Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

New York [1939] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
49 Thwaites, Reuben Gold, editor

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846

Cleveland 1904-1907 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
50

Official Souvenir Book: Thirty-Fourth National Open Championship, United States Golf Association, Interlachen Country Club, Minneapolis, July 10, 11 and 12, 1930

Minneapolis, MN 1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
51 Wilkes, Charles

Western America, Including California and Oregon with Maps of Those Regions, and of "The Sacramento Valley"

Philadelphia 1849 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.