Sale 781: PBA Platinum: Rare Books & Manuscripts - at Pasadena, Cal. (#781) 02/09/2023 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/09/2023 10:00 AM PST 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 1-39 of 39. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 Letter thanking an Ohio women abolitionists for support of his Canadian Underground Railroad “station”; explaining his work feeding, clothing and teaching hundreds of newly-arrived Black “fugitives” Heading(African American – Underground Railroad)AuthorRice, Isaac J.HeadlineLetter from terminus of Underground RailroadDate PublishedApril 26, [1851?] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #4 Chymisches Cabinet derer gossen Geheimnussen der Natur durch wohl ersonnene sinnreiche Kupfferstiche und Emblemata... Heading(Alchemy & Occult)AuthorMaier, MichaelHeadlineAlchemical highspot with 50 engravings 1708PublisherGeorg Heinrich OehrlingDate Published1708 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #7 Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa ('Epistles of the Brethren of Purity') Heading(Arabic Manuscript)HeadlineArabic ms Epistles of Brethren of Purity c.1495Date PublishedAH 900 (CE 1495-96) View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$125,000StatusSold Lot #8 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Heading(Arion Press)AuthorAshbery, JohnHeadlineSigned by De Kooning, Rivers, Katz, AvedonPublisherArion PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #9 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineThe Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #10 Don Quixote Heading(Arion Press)AuthorCervantes, Miguel deHeadlineDon Quixote signed by William T. WileyPublisherArion PressDate Published2009; 2010 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #13 Poems Heading(Arion Press)AuthorStevens, WallaceHeadlineSigned by Jasper Johns, Wallace Stevens PoemsPublisherArion PressDate Published1985 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #24 Siete Poemas Sajones. Seven Saxon Poems AuthorBorges, Jorge LuisHeadlineSigned by Jorge Luis Borges, one of 120 producedPublisherPlain Wrapper PressDate Published[1974] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #25 Physique Théorique - Sur les véritables idées de base de la Mécanique ondulatoire AuthorBroglie, Louis Victor, Prince deHeadlineInscribed by Nobel Prize winner de BroglieDate Published1973 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #26 Photograph of Kim Il-sung and Liu Shaoqi, signed by both of them Heading(China & Korea)HeadlineSigned photo of Kim Il-sung & Liu ShaoqiDate Publishedc.1960s? View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #27 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Heading(China)AuthorMao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)HeadlineMao's Quotations signed first editionPublisherForeign Language PressDate Published1966 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #30 Manifest listing a shipload of Chinese laborers bound for Havana, seven of whom died en route Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers settling in Cuba, 1867 manifestDate PublishedAugust 3, 1867 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #31 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineChinese laborers bound for Cuba in 1867Date Published6 April 1867 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #32 Manuscript papers and documents relating to the formation of a Chinese Society in Cuba, with extensive additional documentation on its operations over some 70 years Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDocuments of Chinese Society in China 1890-1960Date Publishedc.1890-1961 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #33 Registro Civil de Esclavos de la jurisdicion de... Cedula... (from first page) Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineListing of Cuban slaveowners c.1850Date Publishedc.1850s View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$6,875StatusSold Lot #34 Zona Central de Puerto Principe año de 1879 Heading(Cuba)HeadlineManuscript maps of Cuban communities 1879Date Published1879 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #37 The Alloys of Steel. By J. Stodart, Esq. F.R.S. and Mr. M. Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. From the Philosophical Transactions AuthorFaraday, MichaelHeadlineRare offprint inscribed by Michael FaradayPublisherPrinted by William NicolDate Published1822 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #42 Lexicon Technicum: Or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences: Explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves AuthorHarris, JohnHeadlineHarris' Lexicon Technicum 2 volumesPublisherDan. Brown, et al.Date Published1704-1710 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #45 Archive relating to Tomiji Takeda, a Japanese-American resident of Milpitas, California, who was interned at Tule Lake camp, then allowed to move to Utah and eventually Colorado Heading(Japanese-American Internment)HeadlineJapanese American interned at Tule LakeDate Publishedc.1930-1950s View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #46 The Loving Shepherdess AuthorJeffers, RobinsonHeadlineSigned by Robinson Jeffers and Jean KelloggPublisherRandom HouseDate Published1956 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #49 Watermark Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorBrodsky, JosephHeadlineSigned by Peter Koch and Robert MorganPublisherPeter Koch, PrinterDate Published2006 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #50 The Fragments of Parmenides Heading(Koch, Peter)AuthorParmenidesHeadlineSigned by R. Wagener, P. Koch, and R. BringhurstPublisherEditions KochDate Published2003 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #52 To Kill a Mockingbird AuthorLee, HarperHeadlineTo Kill a Mockingbird with Harper Lee letterPublisherJ.B. Lippincott CompanyDate Published[1960] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #60 Encheiresin Naturae: Fifteen Engravings by Barry Moser; A Heroic Crown of Sonnets by Paul Muldoon Heading(Moser, Barry - Nawakum Press)AuthorMoser, Barry and Paul MuldoonHeadlineEncheiresin Naturae with 15 Moser engravingsPublisherNawakum PressDate Published2015 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #61 Optical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools of the University of Cambridge, Anno Domini, 1669... Translated into English out of the Original Latinranslate AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineRare lectures on Optics by Isaac Newton 1728PublisherPrinted for Francis FayramDate Published1728 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #63 The Waste Land Heading(Officina Bodoni)AuthorEliot, T.S.HeadlineFinely printed Waste Land signed by T.S. EliotPublisherFaber & FaberDate Published[1961] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #64 The Oyez Press collection and archive Heading(Oyez Press)HeadlineOyez Press collection & archivePublisherOyez PressDate Published1964-2000 View details Estimate$60,000 - $90,000StatusUnsold Lot #65 The Knave of Hearts Heading(Parrish, Maxfield, illustrator)AuthorSaunders, LouiseHeadlineParrish's Knave of Hearts with 2 ALSPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #66 Philosophical transactions: giving some accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the ingenious in many considerable parts of the world Heading(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)Headline1st 2 years of Philosophical Transactions 1665-67PublisherPrinted by T.N. for John MartynDate Published1667 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #67 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir Heading(Pie in the Sky Press)AuthorChamlee, RebeccaHeadlineLetter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low WaterPublisherPie in the Sky PressDate Published2017 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #69 Atlas Shrugged AuthorRand, AynHeadlineAyn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, signedPublisherRandom HouseDate Published[1957] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$11,875StatusSold Lot #70 Accession List of German Documents pertaining to Guided Missiles - plus related materials Heading(Rocketry - V2)HeadlineAmericans acquire German Rocket SciencePublisherOrdnance Department, Army Service ForcesDate PublishedMarch & April, 1946 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #73 Handwritten letter by J.D. Salinger, signed Jerry, to Rose-Ellen Currie, relaying news of his recent wedding to Claire Douglas, with mention of Franny and Holden Caulfield AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineAutograph letter from J.D. "Jerry" SalingerDate PublishedWednesday [1955] View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #74 Letter from J.D. Salinger to the principal of a Michigan elementary school, recommending a former neighbor, friend and tutor for employment as a teacher AuthorSalinger, J.D.HeadlineJ.D. Salinger recommends neighbor as teacherDate PublishedOctober 29, 1982 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #75 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs AuthorSchanilec, GaylordHeadlineFarmers by Schanilec with progressive proofsPublisherMidnight Paper Sales PressDate Published[1989]; 1992 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #77 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them Heading(Society of Wood Engravers)AuthorHamway, Nigel, compilerHeadlineDeluxe edition with portfolio of wood engravingsPublisherNomad Letterpress / Society of Wood EngraversDate Published2020 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #81 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) AuthorTwain, Mark [pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens]HeadlineHuckleberry Finn with card signed by TwainPublisherCharles L. WebsterDate Published1885 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #83 Two original printed leaves from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, each with full-page anatomical woodcut, one of a "Muscle Man" and one of the human skeleton AuthorVesaliusHeadlineVesalius leaves with "muscle man" woodcutPublisherJohannes OporinusDate Published1543 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #84 Heart Disease AuthorWhite, Paul DudleyHeadlineSigned by Paul D. White & 3 colleaguesPublisherThe Macmillan CompanyDate Published1932 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next