PBA Galleries: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps, Prints & Views , 812, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 02, 2024 - May 02, 2024

Page Size: 391 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-6....Volume XI	Washington	1855	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
2	Adams, Hannah	A Summary History of New-England, from the First Settlement at Plymouth, to the Acceptance of the Federal Constitution. Comprehending a General Sketch of the American War	Dedham, MA	1799	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
3		Letter from a Baptist white woman shocked by an account of a Black church service	Poughkeepsie, New York	1858	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
4		Letter written by a young Illinois woman who had gone South to teach in Louisiana	Amite, Louisiana	1860	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
5	Adgate, Edwin Hawley	Letter by a paper mill worker in 1861	York, Pennsylvania	1861	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
6	Durbin, John Price	Our Missionary Picture		1861	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
7	Taylor, W. R.	List of Commissary Stores and Rations on board the USS Roanoke 1861	Annapolis, Maryland	1861	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
8	Sears, Joseph H., publisher	The New South	Port Royal, South Carolina	1863	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
9	Thomas, William Russell	Letter from a Williams College student to his father with impassioned argument against slavery	Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts	1863	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	Unknown
10		Indenture signed by Frederick Douglass as Recorder	Washington, D.C.	1885	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
11	Arnett, Benjamin W., editor	Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio	Philadelphia	1894	USD 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
12	Baker, Dr. S.C.	The Southern Negro -- His Recent Erotic Tendencies -- the Causes -- Suggestion as to Prevention	Charlotte, North Carolina	1900	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
13		Negro Baptism in Fox river at foot of Lake St., Elgin, Ill., about 1900	Chicago	1900, printed later	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
14	Beard, Augustus Field	A Crusade of Brotherhood, History of the American Missionary Association	Boston	1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
15	DuBois, W.E.B., et al.	Two issues of "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science" focused on African Americans	Philadelphia	1913 and 1928	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
16	DuBois, W.E.B.	Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil	New York	1920	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
17	Arnold, Angie Mills, editor	Proceedings of First Session of the Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs...	Butte, Montana	1922	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
18	Wever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al.	Four imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination	New York, Washington, DC, Richmond, Va. and Miami	1927-1951	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
19		Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America	New York	1928-1932	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
20		A Survey of the Negro Boy in Nashville, Tennessee	New York	1932	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
21		Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1937	New York	1937	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
22		Four titles regarding Civil Rights		1994-2017	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
23	LaRoche, F., photographer	En Route to the Klondike: A Series of Views of the Picturesque Land of Gold and Glaciers	Chicago	[c.1897]	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
24	Wilson, Bill	Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age	New York	[1957]	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	Unknown
25	Chauncy, Charles	Two religious tracts	Boston	1766-1773	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown

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
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.
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