Sale 739: PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art (#739) 09/02/2021 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/02/2021 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-71 of 71. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Archive of thirty-two photographs from the research voyage of the Albatross to Alaska and the Philippines 1907-10 Heading(Alaska & Philippines)HeadlinePhotographs from The Albatross voyage 1907Date Published[1907-10] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #2 A Voyage Around the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, Esq.; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas AuthorAnson, GeorgeHeadlineAnson's Voyage Around the World 1748PublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #3 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume I AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVol. I of Audubon's Birds, 1840, 1st OctavoPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1840 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #4 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume II AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVol. II of Audubon's Birds 1841 1st OctavoPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1841 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #5 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume III AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVol. III of Audubon's Birds, 1841, 1st OctavoPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1841 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #6 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume IV AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVolume 4 of Audubon's Birds 1842 1st OctavoPublisherJ.J. Audubon & J.B. ChevalierDate Published1842 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #7 The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. Volume VII AuthorAudubon, John JamesHeadlineVol. VII of Audubon's Birds 1844 1st OctavoPublisherJ.J. AudubonDate Published1844 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #8 Manuscript Guest Book for the Castello Bar in Mondsee, Austria, with hundreds of autographs of actors, authors, musicians, singers, dancers, race car drivers, and others Heading(Autographs)HeadlineAutographs of show business luminaries, etc.Date Published1952-1988 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 The Divine Comedy Heading(Birk, Sandow, artist)AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineSandow Birk's complete Divine ComedyPublisherTrillium PressDate Published2003-05 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #10 Paradiso Heading(Birk, Sandow, artist)AuthorDante AlighieriHeadlineDante's Paradiso illustrated by Sandow BirkPublisherTrillium PressDate Published2005 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #11 Book of Hours (Horae B.V.M.) printed on vellum, with "Dance of Death" illustrations by Philippe Pigouchet Heading(Book of Hours)HeadlineHorae BVM with famed "Dance of Death" suitesPublisherPhilippe Pigouchet for Simon VostreDate Publishedc.1500 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #12 Trout Fishing in America AuthorBrautigan, RichardHeadlineBrautigan's Trout Fishing inscribedPublisherJonathan CapeDate Published1970 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #13 On Dreams AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineBrowne On Dreams, 1/21 copies on vellumPublisherPublished by Alexander Moring Limited, the De La More PressDate Published[1920] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #14 Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. late of Norwich... AuthorBrowne, ThomasHeadlineThomas Browne's Posthumous Works 1712PublisherPrinted for E. Curl... and R. GoslingDate Published1712 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #15 [Picture Book: Progressive Artists's Proofs] AuthorCharlot, JeanHeadlineCharlot progressive artist's proofs, original watercolorDate Published1933 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #16 Ten volumes of writings by Cicero published primarily by Sebastianus Gryphius in the mid-16th century AuthorCicero, Marcus TulliusHeadlineScarce 16th century printings of CiceroPublisherApud Seb. Gryphium, etc.Date Publishedc.1546-1567 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #17 A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 AuthorCook, James and James KingHeadlineCook's Third Voyage with Atlas Volume 1785PublisherPrinted by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol... and T. CadellDate Published1785 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #18 The Pilgrim's Progress Heading(Cresset Press)AuthorBunyan, JohnHeadlineBunyan's Pilgrim's Progress from Cresset PressPublisherCresset PressDate Published1928 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #19 On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection AuthorDarwin, Charles & Alfred Russel WallaceHeadlineFirst statement of Darwin's Evolution TheoryPublisherLongman, Brown, et al.Date Published1859 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #20 Charles Darwin Framed Signature AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's SignaturePublisher[n.p.] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #21 Bratʹia Karamazovy: roman v chetyrekh chastiakh s ėpilogom [The Brothers Karamazov - Братья Карамазовы: роман в четырех частях с эпилогом] AuthorDostoevsky, FyodorHeadlineDostoevsky's Brother's Karamazov, 1st edition in RussianPublisherTip. brat. PanteleevykhDate Published1881 [but Dec. 1880] View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$21,250StatusSold Lot #22 Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel AuthorDostoevsky, FyodorHeadlineFirst in English. of Crime & PunishmentPublisherThomas Y. CrowellDate Published1886 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #23 Two items by Albert Einstein, with ownership stamps of his son Hans Albert Einstein AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineRare Einstein articles, presented to his sonDate Published1922 & 1924 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #24 The Hĕĕtōpădēs of Vĕĕshnŏŏ-Sărmā, in a series of connected fables, interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims; translated from an ancient manuscript in the Sanskreet language. With explanatory notes Heading(Fables - Indian)AuthorWilkins, Charles, translatorHeadlineFables by the Indian Aesop, 1787PublisherPrinted by R. Cruttwell, and sold by C. Nourse, et al.Date Published1787 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #25 Systema cosmicum, in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano, rationibus utrinque propositis indefinite ac solide differitur.... AuthorGalileo GalileiHeadlineGalileo's Systema Cosmicum, 1699PublisherFredericum Haaring et Davidem SeverinumDate Published1699 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #26 Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux en Général, et du Cerveau en Particulier... AuthorGall, Franz Joseph and Johann Gaspar SpurzheimHeadlineF.J. Gall advances science and phrenologyPublisherF. SchoellDate Published1810-19 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #27 Mechanik des Himmels Heading(Gauss, Carl Friedrich)AuthorLaplace, Pierre Simon deHeadlineGauss' copy of LaPlace's celestial mechanicsPublisherF.T. LaGardeDate Published1800 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #28 The Bells: A Numerical Exploration Heading(Glaister, Donald)AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlineNumber 1 in a signed édition variée of 12PublisherFoolsgold StudioDate Published2014 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #29 3 in Search of the Universe: Rumi Walt Whitman and the Voyager spacecrafts wonder at The Quest AuthorGlaister, DonaldHeadlineNo. 1 of 10 numbered copiesPublisherFoolsgold StudioDate Published2016 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #30 Angelique and the Pearl Necklace: An Homage to Sail AuthorGlaister, DonaldHeadlineSigned by Donald Glaister, no. 1 in the editionPublisherFoolsgold StudioDate Published2007 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #31 Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song AuthorGlaister, DonaldHeadlineCopy no. 1, limited edition signed by GlaisterPublisherFoolsgold StudioDate Published2002 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #32 A Few Questions AuthorGlaister, DonaldHeadlineNumber 1 in a signed édition variée of 12PublisherFoolsgold StudioDate Published2009 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #33 The Works of James Harris, Esq. With an account of his life and character, by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury AuthorHarris, JamesHeadlineHarris on philosophy of language, 1801PublisherPrinted by Luke Hansard, for F. WingraveDate Published1801 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #34 Mules and Men AuthorHurston, Zora NealeHeadlineAfrican American folklore by Zora Neale HurstonPublisherKegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.Date Published1936 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #35 Y-King: Antiquissimus Sinarum Liber Quem Ex Latina Interpretatione P. Regis Alorumque ex Soc. Jesu P.P. Edidit Julius Mohl Heading(I Ching)AuthorMohl, Julius, editorHeadlineFirst edition of the I-Ching, 1834-39PublisherJ.G. CottaeDate Published1834 & 1839 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Lot #36 Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts Heading(Illuminated Manuscripts)AuthorWestwood, J.O.HeadlineChromolithographs of miniatures in massive formatPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1868 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #37 Album with 12 original paintings on silk, featuring artisanal crafts, occupations, etc. Heading(Japan)HeadlinePaintings on silk of Japanese industryDate Published19th century? View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #38 Album with 62 original paintings on silk, featuring pastoral scenes, artisanal crafts, occupations, etc. Heading(Japan)HeadlineJapanese artisanal crafts painted on silkDate Published19th century View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #39 Autograph Letter signed to his brother William, Georges Coffee House, Temple Bar, London, England Heading(Jefferson, Thomas)AuthorElwyn, ThomasHeadlineExpatriate British aristocrat defends Thomas JeffersonDate PublishedMarch 14-17, 1805 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #40 A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar AuthorJohnson, SamuelHeadlineFirst edition of Johnson's DictionaryPublisherPrinted by W. Strahan, for J. & P. Knapton, et al.Date Published1755 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #41 Sefir Yesirah Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorFuchs, Ernst, artistHeadlineLivre d'artiste of Kabbalah text by Ernst FuchsPublisherAriane Lancell & Yves GauguetDate Published1978 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette AuthorLear, EdwardHeadlineOriginal drawing signed by Edward LearDate Published[1848-49] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #43 Original sepia ink drawing by Edward Lear - Egyptian vignette amid pyramids AuthorLear, EdwardHeadlineOriginal drawing signed by Edward LearDate Published[1848-49] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #44 Herophilus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin AuthorMarx, Carl Friedrich HeinrichHeadlineHerophilus & the anatomy of the brainPublisherD.R. Marx'sche Buch- und KunsthandlungDate Published1838 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #45 Cien años de soledad AuthorMárquez, Gabriel GarcíaHeadlineTrue first of Marquez' SolitudePublisherEditorial SudamericanaDate Published[1967] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #46 Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West AuthorMcCarthy, CormacHeadlineMcCarthy's classic, first edition in fine jacketPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1985] View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #47 Carnival Songs AuthorMedici, Lorenzo de'HeadlineBeautiful large format artist book of Carnival SongsPublisherRaphael Fodde EditionsDate Published2000 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #48 El Ecmo. Sr. Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos me ha dirigido el decreto que sigue... Sabed: que el Congreso general ha decretado lo siguiente... 1.o El gobierno hará públicar tanto en el pais como en las naciones... que se va a emprender la comunicacion de los dos occeanos por el istmo de Tehuantepec... Heading(Mexico)AuthorVictoria, GuadalupeHeadlineMexican plan to navigate the Isthmus, 1824Date Published1824 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Large four-sheet indenture document for sale of property, signed by the Earl of Sandwich and others AuthorMontagu, John, 4th Earl of SandwichHeadlineEarl of Sandwich signs a documentDate Published23 March, 1743 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #50 [Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera] AuthorPlatoHeadlineFirst Plato in Greek 1513Publisher[In aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Soceri]Date Published[1513] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #51 Phaedrus: a dialogue by Plato AuthorPlatoHeadlineGreenwood Press Phaedrus, 1 of 150 copiesPublisherGreenwood PressDate Published1976 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #52 Hand-Book to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains' Gold Region; Accompanied by Reliable Maps and a Preliminary Treatise on the Pre-Emption Laws of the United States AuthorRedpath, JamesHeadlinePikes Peak Gold Region Guide and MapPublisherJ.H. ColtonDate Published1859 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #53 Principia Mathematica AuthorRussell, Bertrand & Alfred North WhiteheadHeadlineFirst edition of Russell's Principia MathematicaPublisherAt the University PressDate Published1910, 1912, 1913 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #54 The life and death of King John AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare King John from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #55 The Winters Tale AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Winters Tale from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #56 Grapes of Wrath AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineGrapes of Wrath 1st inscribedPublisherViking PressDate Published[1939] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #57 "If This be Treason—" AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck unpublished MS. on McCarthy eraDate Published[c.1954] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #58 Nothing So Monstrous AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck Nothing So Monstrous 1/6 copiesPublisher[Pynson Printers]Date Published1936 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #59 The Pastures of Heaven AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineFine copy of Steinbeck's Pastures of HeavenPublisherBrewer, Warren & PutnamDate Published1932 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #60 The Red Pony - Cutting Continuity script AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineThe Red Pony - Cutting Continuity scriptPublisherRepublic PicturesDate Published[1948] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #61 A Russian Journal AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSigned by John Steinbeck with Pigasus sketchPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1948 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #62 To A God Unknown AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSigned by Steinbeck and inscribed to his sisterPublisherRobert BallouDate Published[1933] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #63 Zapata: A Narrative, in dramatic form, of the life of Emiliano Zapata - special copy with text of publisher James Robertson's Address to the Steinbeck Festival August 14 1992 in custom box AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineZapata with James Robertson text on SteinbeckPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1991] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #64 Mt. Tamalpais in Distance, Point Bonita in Middle Distance, Looking North from Lands End, S.F., Cal AuthorStuart, James EverettHeadlineSigned by artist James Everett StuartDate Published[1914] View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 Viva la Independencia... Heading(Texas)HeadlineTexas-Santa Fe expedition captured, 1841PublisherImprenta del Gobierno a cargo de Cayetano RamosDate Published1841 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #66 A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In Which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command, Principally with a View to Ascertain the Existence of Any Navigable Communication Between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and Performed in the Years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795...under the Command of Captain George Vancouver AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's A Voyage of Discovery, First Edition 1798PublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #67 General Washington Heading(Washington, George)AuthorTrumbull, John, artistHeadlineEngraving of Trumbull's George Washington 1796PublisherPublished by A.C. De PoggiDate PublishedJune 1796 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #68 An American Dictionary of the English Language... To Which are Prefixed, an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and of Europe, and a Concise Grammar of the English Language AuthorWebster, NoahHeadlineWebster's American Dictionary 1st ed. 1828PublisherS. ConverseDate Published1828 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$10,000StatusSold Lot #69 Archive of 137 gelatin silver print photographs from World War I Heading(World War I)HeadlineAlbum of World War I photographs, 1918-19Date Published[c. 1918-19] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #70 Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravée et lithographiée de Zao Wou-Ki, 1949-1954 Heading(Wou-ki, Zao)AuthorJacometti, NestoHeadlineWith original etching signed by Zao Wou-KiPublisherGutekunst & KlipsteinDate Published1955 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #71 Auction catalogs for the sale of Yamanaka & Co. property seized during World War II Heading(Yamanaka Collection)HeadlineAuction Catalogs of Seized Japanese-American PropertyPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1943-44 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next