Sale 754: PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#754) 02/10/2022 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/10/2022 10:00 AM PST Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)AuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Collection of Twenty-five Drawings of the Arizona Territory Heading(Arizona)AuthorRoberts, A. G.Headline1870-1887 original drawings of Arizona TerritoryDate Published1870-1887 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #5 Almanacks 1688 (spine title) Heading(Astronomy)Headline12 almanacs from 1688 in period bindingDate Published1687-1688 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #6 Three works on the development of the atomic bomb and its deployment and use over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Heading(Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima & Nagasaki)HeadlineAtomic bombs over Hiroshima & NagasakiDate Published1945 & [1946] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,375StatusSold Lot #7 Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York Heading(Audubon, John James)HeadlineAudubon's first published writing, 1824PublisherPrinted for the Lyceum by J. SeymourDate Published1824-25; 1828 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #8 Sketch of the History and Resources of Dakota Territory AuthorBatchelder, George A.HeadlineRare early history and report on the Dakota TerritoryPublisherPress Steam Power Printing Co.Date Published1870 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #10 Zeespiegel, inhoudende eene beschryvinghe der seekusten van de Oostersche ende Noordsche schipvaert. Wt ondervindinghen van veel ervaren zeevaerders vergadert... AuthorBlaeu, Willem JanszoonHeadlineVariant of Blaeu's Sea Atlas 1623PublisherGhedruckt by Willem Iansz BlaeuwDate Published1623 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #13 The Light of the World: A most True Relation of a Pilgrimess, M. Antonia Bourignon, Travelling towards Eternity. Published by Mr. Christian de Cort, late director of the Isle of Noordstrand... AuthorBourignon, AntoniaHeadlineFrench-Flemish mystic foresees end of timesDate Published1696 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #16 Observations upon the First Five Bookes of Caesars Commentaries, setting fourth the practise of the art military, in the time of the Roman Empire... Heading(Caesar, Julius)AuthorEdmondes, Clement, SirHeadlineEdmondes on Caesar's Commentaries, 1600PublisherPrinted by Peter ShortDate Published1600 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #19 Manuscript Royal Order to Colonize the Californias, signed by Philip V, King of Spain Heading(California)AuthorPhilip V, King of SpainHeadlineKing of Spain authorizes colonization of CaliforniaDate PublishedAugust 13, 1705 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$173,000StatusSold Lot #20 Our Catholic Heritage in Texas 1519-1936 AuthorCastaneda, Carlos E.HeadlineScarce complete history of Spanish Texas, 7 vol.PublisherVon Boeckmann-JonesDate Published1936-1958 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #36 Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Francois AuthorDu Tertre, Jean BaptisteHeadlineHistory of the French Antilles, 1667PublisherChez Thomas JollyDate Published1667 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #40 Voyage aux Moluques et a la Nouvelle Guinée, fait sur la galere la Tartare en 1774, 1775 & 1776 par ordre de la Compagnie Angloise AuthorForrest, ThomasHeadlineFrench ed. of English voyage to New Guinea 1780PublisherHôtel de Thou, rue des PoitevinsDate Published1780 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome. In two parts... Heading(Galileo)AuthorSalusbury, ThomasHeadlineFirst publication of Galileo's Dialogo in EnglishPublisherPrinted by William LeybournDate Published1661 View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$28,125StatusSold Lot #42 Sketchbook with original pencil drawings by William Hammond Hall of Oregon & California, 1867-68 AuthorHall, William HammondHeadlineWilliam Hammond Hall sketches OR & CA 1867Date Published1867-1868 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$17,500StatusSold Lot #43 Herodotou Alikarnasseos I'storiōn logoith: epigraphomenoi Mousai tou autou Exegesis peri tes Homerou biotes = Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarvm lib. IX: Eiusdem narratio de vita Homeri AuthorHerodotus, Henri Estienne, Lorenzo Valla, Joachim Camerarius, and CtesiasHeadlineEstienne edition of Herodotus, 1592PublisherExcudebat Henricus StephanusDate Published1592 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #52 Archive of documents and bulletins from the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority detailing the role of American social scientists in the internment of United States Citizens of Japanese ancestry Heading(Japanese Internment - WRA Community Analysis Section)HeadlineSocial scientists abet Japanese InternmentPublisherCommunity Analysis Section of the War Relocation AuthorityDate Published1942-56 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #56 The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women Heading(Limericks)Headline1st book of Limericks, with colored plates, 1822PublisherJ. Harris and SonDate Published1822 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #58 Rerum Germanicarum Sub Matthia, Ferdinandis II. & III. IMPP. Gestarum, Libri LV... AuthorLotichius, Joannes PetrusHeadlineRare complete copy, Lotichius' Rerum GermanicarumPublisherTypis exscripti Wolfgangi Hoffmani, Impensa Matthaei MerianiDate Published1646-50 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #60 The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English AuthorMachiavelli, NiccoloHeadline1675 English Translation of MachiavelliPublisherPrinted for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-BarDate Published1675 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #62 Americæ nova Tabula Heading(Maps)AuthorBlaeu, WillemHeadlineBlaeu's carte-à-figures map of AmericasDate Published1617-[1635] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #65 Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by Them Established as the Seat of Their Government After the Year MDCC Heading(Maps)AuthorEllicott, Andrew & Peter Charles L'EnfantHeadlineEllicott's Plan of Washington D.C. 1792PublisherEngraved by Thackara & VallanceDate Published1792 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$10,625StatusSold Lot #69 Brasiliae qua parte paret Belgis Heading(Maps)AuthorMargraff, Georg, cartographerHeadlineRare oversized map of Brazil, 1657PublisherJoan Blaeu, publisherDate Published1657 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$179,000StatusSold Lot #72 The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States... AuthorMarshall, JohnHeadlineMarshall's Life of Washington 1st Edition 1804-07PublisherC.P. WayneDate Published1804-1807 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #76 El Territorio Mexicano se divide en tantos Departamentos cuantos eran los Estados, con las variaciones siguientes. Heading(Mexico)AuthorCorro, José Justo / Ortiz Monasterio, José MariaHeadlineDecree separating Coahuila and Texas, 1836PublisherPrimera Secretaria de Estado, Departamento del ExteriorDate Published1836 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #77 Comisión de inmigración : dictamen del vocal ingeniero José María Romero, encargado de estudiar la influencia social y económica de la inmigración asiática en México Heading(Mexico)AuthorRomero, José MaríaHeadlineChinese immigration into Mexico, 1911PublisherImprenta de A. Carranza e hijosDate Published1911 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #78 Two volumes of "Revista Mexicana" Heading(Mexico)HeadlineWith lithos of Mexico, Texas & California, 1845-6PublisherJ.M. LaraDate Published1845 & 1846 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #82 Epitalamio / Una Carta en el Camino [or] a sus amigos (cover title) AuthorNeruda, PabloHeadlineWith color etchings signed by Alicia ScavinoPublisher[Ediciones Dos Amigos]Date Published[1989] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #83 Ovid's Metamporphosis Englished by G.S. AuthorOvidHeadlineFirst significant literary translation in AmericaPublisherPrinted by William StansbyDate Published1626 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #88 Arte de navegar em que se ensinao as regras praticas, e os modos de cartear... e roteiro das viagens, e costas maritimas de Guine, Angola, Brazil, Indias, e llhas Occidentaes, e Orientaes AuthorPimentel, ManoelHeadlinePortuguese navigation guide to world ports 1762PublisherOfficina de Miguel Manescal da CostaDate Published1762 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #90 California Gold Regions, with a full account of their Mineral Resources; How to Get There, and What to Take; the Expenses, the Time, and the Various Routes. With Sketches of California; an Account of the Life, Manners, and Customs of the Inhabitants, Its History, Climate, Soil, Productions, &c. AuthorPratt, F. M., compilerHeadlineRare 1849 Gold Rush GuidePublisherF.M. PrattDate Published[1849] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #97 The Merry Wives of Windsor AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineShakespeare Wives of Windsor from 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,000StatusSold Lot #98 A Midsommer Nights Dreame AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadline2nd folio Midsommer Nights Dreame 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #99 Much Adoe About Nothing [&] Loves Labour's Lost AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #100 The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineTwo plays from Shakespeare 2nd folio 1632Date Published[1632] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,937.50StatusSold Lot #101 The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineRichard III from 4th folio Shakespeare 1685Publisher[H. Herringman, et al.]Date Published[1685] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #102 The Jew of Venice. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants Author[Shakespeare, William]. Granville, George (Baron Lansdowne)HeadlineAdaption of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 1701PublisherPrinted for Ber. LintottDate Published1701 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #104 The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England’s Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected AuthorSpenser, EdmundHeadlineSpenser, England's Arch-Poët, finely boundPublisherPrinted by H. L. for Mathew LownesDate Published1611 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #106 Punctuation personified, or, Pointing made easy AuthorStops, Mr.HeadlinePunctuation Personified with hand-colored platesPublisherJ. Harris and SonDate Published1824 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 An account of the Churches, or places of assembly, of the primitive Christians; from the churches of Tyre, Jerusalem, and Constantinople. Described by Eusebius... AuthorWheler, GeorgeHeadline17th century description of Holy Land churchesPublisherPrinted by S. Roycroft, for R. ClavellDate Published1689 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #113 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects AuthorWollstonecraft, MaryHeadlineWollstonecraft's Rights of Women, 1792PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1792 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next