PBA Galleries: Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana and Maps - bidstart 3/4, 2058, Berkeley

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Auction Report
Auction Date
March 14, 2024 - March 14, 2024
Page Size: 310 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Group of African American Literature

1941-1965 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 281.25
2 Brown, Frank London

Trumbull Park

Chicago 1959 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
3 Bierce, Ambrose

The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays

San Francisco 1909 USD 10.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
4 Blochman, Lawrence G.

Diagnosis: Homicide, The Casebook of Dr. Coffee

Philadelphia 1950 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 281.25
5 Buck, Charles Neville

The Lighted Match

New York 1911 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
6 Dunbar, Paul Laurence

In Old Plantation Days

New York 1903 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 312.50
7 Eliot, T.S.

From Poe to Valery

New York 1948 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
8 Everson, William

On Writing the Waterbirds and Other Presentations

Metuchen, New Jersey 1983 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
9 Faulkner, William

The Sound and the Fury

London 1931 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
10 Faulkner, William

The Town

New York 1957 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
11 Faulkner, William

The Unvanquished

New York 1938 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
12 Faulkner, William

Soldiers' Pay

London 1930 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
13 Faulkner, William

Absalom, Absalom!

London 1936 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 75.00
14 Faulkner, William

Requiem for a Nun

London 1953 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 37.50
15 Forester, C.S.

Payment Deferred

Boston 1942 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 62.50
16 Gay, John

The Distress'd Wife. A Comedy

London 1743 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 112.50
17 Grey, Zane

Letter from Zane Grey to Henry Phillips, regarding the latter's claim that Grey wrote his books with the intent that they be made into movies

Middleton, NY March 26, no year USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 175.00
18 Hammett, Dashiell

Creeps by Night, Chills and Thrills

New York 1931 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 150.00
19 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Blithedale Romance

Boston 1952 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
20 Jeffers, Robinson

An Artist

1928 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
21 Kerouac, Jack

On the Road

London 1961 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 125.00
22 Killens, John O.

Youngblood [with] And Then We Heard the Thunder [and] 'Sippi

New York 1954; 1963; 1967 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
23 Talfourd, Thomas Noon

Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions

London 1848 USD 10.00 - 10.00 Not Sold
24 Lee, Tanith

Don't Bite the Sun

New York 1976 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
25 Lipton, Lawrence

The Holy Barbarians

New York 1959 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 12.50
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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