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

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Auction Report
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 Not Sold
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 USD 375.00
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 USD 750.00
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 USD 562.50
5 Adgate, Edwin Hawley

Letter by a paper mill worker in 1861

York, Pennsylvania 1861 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
6 Durbin, John Price

Our Missionary Picture

1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
7 Taylor, W. R.

List of Commissary Stores and Rations on board the USS Roanoke 1861

Annapolis, Maryland 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
8 Sears, Joseph H., publisher

The New South

Port Royal, South Carolina 1863 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
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 Not Sold
10

Indenture signed by Frederick Douglass as Recorder

Washington, D.C. 1885 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
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 USD 375.00
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 USD 250.00
13

Negro Baptism in Fox river at foot of Lake St., Elgin, Ill., about 1900

Chicago 1900, printed later USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
14 Beard, Augustus Field

A Crusade of Brotherhood, History of the American Missionary Association

Boston 1909 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
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 USD 187.50
16 DuBois, W.E.B.

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

New York 1920 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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 USD 281.25
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 USD 187.50
19

Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America

New York 1928-1932 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
20

A Survey of the Negro Boy in Nashville, Tennessee

New York 1932 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
21

Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1937

New York 1937 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
22

Four titles regarding Civil Rights

1994-2017 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
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 USD 343.75
24 Wilson, Bill

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age

New York [1957] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
25 Chauncy, Charles

Two religious tracts

Boston 1766-1773 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
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