PBA Galleries: Americana - World History - Maps & Views, 863, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026

Page Size: 352 items in 15 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
88	McCarthy, John Russell, editor	California Series	Los Angeles	1928-1930	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
89	Rensch, Hero Eugene and Ethel Grace Rensch	Historic Spots in California: The Southern Counties	Stanford, CA; London	1932	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
90	Schonewald, Geo.	Shasta and the Crags		[c.1895]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
91		Scrapbook of 1860s California ephemera	[San Francisco]	c.1860s	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,250.00
92		Second Annual Report of the Chief Executive Viticultural Officer to the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, For the Year 1882-3	Sacramento	1883	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
93	Seward, William H.	Speech of W.H. Seward, on the admission of California, and the subject of slavery, delivered in the United States Senate, on Monday, March 11, 1850	Washington	1850	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
94		Two late nineteenth-century California booklets		1894	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 531.25
95	Bonynge, Francis	The Future Wealth Of America, Being A Glance At The Resources Of The United States And The Commercial And Agricultural Advantages In Cultivating Tea, Coffee, And Indigo, The Date, Mango, Jack, Leechee, Guava And Orange Trees, Etc., With A Review Of The Ch	New York	1851	USD 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
96	Seward, George F., Late United States Minister to China	Chinese Immigration, In its Social and Economical Aspects	San Francisco	1881	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 200.00
97	Weber, John B.	Autobiography of John B. Weber, Limited, Signed	Buffalo, NY	1924	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
98	Beale, R.L.T.	History of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, in the War Between the States.	Richmond, VA	1899	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
99	[Brock, Sallie A.]	Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation by a Richmond Lady	New York; London	[1867]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 593.75
100	Doolittle, Elkanah, et al.	Archive of approximately 300 handwritten letters from or to members of the extended Doolittle Family of Onarga, Illinois, some 80 of which are from Elkanah Doolittle during his military service from July 1862 to January 1864	Various places	19th century	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
101	Scott, William Forse	The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: The Career of the Fourth Iowa Veteran Volunteers from Kansas to Georgia 1861-1865 [with] Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers 1861-1865, an Appendix to "The Story of a Cavalry Regiment."	New York	1893-1902	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
102	Berkeley, Edmund C.; and Robert A. Jensen	"World’s Smallest Electric Brain" (Part I) [with] "How an Electric Brain Works" (Parts II-XIII)	New York	1950-1951	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 812.50
103		Four works on the first post-World War II computing machines		1949-1957	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
104	Diez Muro, Raul	Historia del Base Ball Profesional de Cuba... Campeonatos Celebrados desde 1878, hasta 1949	[Havana, Cuba]	1949	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
105	Curtis, Edward S.	Assiniboin Mother and Child	Cambridge, MA	1926	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 187.50
106	Curtis, Edward S.	Girl and Jar – San Ildefonso	Cambridge, MA	1905	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
107	Curtis, Edward S.	Sia Street Scene	Cambridge, MA	1925	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
108		The Saturday Magazine: Being in Great Part a Compilation from the British Reviews, Magazines, and Scientific Journals. Vol. II. January to July 1822	Philadelphia, Trenton, New York	1822	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
109		A Richard Dillon Collection		Various dates	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
110		McKenney's Pacific Coast Directory for 1886-7 - Giving Name, Business and Address of Business and Professional Men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Together with Sketches of the Different Towns, Giving	San Francisco	1886	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
111	Estes, George	The Stagecoach	Troutdale, Oregon	[1925]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 625.00
112		Autograph letter signed by Abigail Fillmore	Washington, D.C.	1841	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 3,125.00

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000