Sale 850: Rare Books, Manuscripts and More! A PBA Platinum Sale (#850) 11/06/2025 11:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 11/06/2025 11:00 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)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 1-36 of 36. Previous|1|Next Lot #4 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, GeorgeHeadlineSharp copy of Anson's voyage - subscriber's copyProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherPrinted for the Author by John and Paul KnaptonDate Published1748 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #6 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophesies, Concerning These Present Times... Heading(Astrology)AuthorLilly, WilliamHeadline1645 Lilly's astrological prophecies of EnglandPublisherPrinted for John Partridge and Humphrey BlundenDate Published1645 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #8 The Epistles of Jacob Behmen aliter, Teutonicus Philosophus AuthorBehmen, JacobHeadline1st English edition Jacob Behmen's Epistles, 1649PublisherPrinted by M. Simmons for Gyles CalvertDate Published1649 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #9 Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft / Deudsch Heading(Bible in German)Headline1607 illustrated edition of Martin Luther's BiblePublisherZachariae SchurersDate Published1607 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #10 Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd. Wherein is Discovered The natural Causes of Metals, Stones, precious Earths, Juyces, Humors, and Spirits, The nature of Plants in general; their Affections, Parts, and Kinds in Particular AuthorBrowne, Sir ThomasHeadlineNature's Cabinet attr. to Sir Thomas Browne, 1657PublisherPrinted for Edward FarnhamDate Published1657 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #11 A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians AuthorBurney, JamesHeadlineBurney on Russians in the Arctic 1819PublisherPayne and Foss, and John MurrayDate Published1819 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #23 The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun Authorde Bergerac, CyranoHeadlineCyrano de Bergerac's early sci-fi novels 1687PublisherPrinted for Henry RhodesDate Published1687 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #27 An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage Performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful Account of all their Discoveries, and the unfortunate Death of Captain Cook. Illustrated with a Chart and a Variety of Cuts. AuthorEllis, W[illiam]HeadlineNarrative of Cook's Third Voyage by Ellis 1782PublisherG. RobinsonDate Published1782 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #34 The Wind in the Willows AuthorGrahame, KennethHeadlineGrahame The Wind in the Willows 1st EdPublisherMethuen & Co.Date Published[1908] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #36 Tales of Coral Reefs AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineZane Grey's Tales of Coral Reefs - unpublished manuscriptDate Published[1930s?] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #37 Tuna AuthorGrey, ZaneHeadlineZane Grey's Tuna - original manuscriptDate Published[c.1918?] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #38 Le Transvaal: Afrique Australe AuthorGros, Henri FerdinandHeadlineH.F. Gros' Le Transvaal: Afrique Australe, c.1888-90PublisherH.F. GrosDate Publishedc.1888-90 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #39 Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation AuthorHarris, Joel ChandlerHeadlineUncle Remus 1st in Rare Binding VariantPublisherD. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1881 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #40 Exercitationes anatomicae, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione. AuthorHarvey, WilliamHeadlineHarvey's De Motu Cordis 1660 ed.PublisherArnold LeersDate Published1660 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #44 [The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets] AuthorHomerHeadlineChapman's Iliad, first edition of Homer's epic in EnglishPublisher[Printed for Nathaniell Butter]Date Published[1611?; Conjectured publication date from STC] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #46 Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; With Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Vicinity AuthorIreland, SamuelHeadlinePicturesque Views on the River Thames 1801-02PublisherPrinted by C. Clarke, Published by T. EgertonDate Published1801-02 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #48 De sexcentum & tredecim mosaice sanctionis edictis. Eiusdem Philosophica: prophetica: ac talmudistica pro christiana veritate tuenda cum iuniori Hebreorum synagoga mirabili ingenij acumine disputatio. Eiusdem I cabalistae: seu allegorisan num eruditionem ysagoge. Eiusde de noves doctrinae orinibus: & totius perypatentici dogmatis nexu compendium. Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRicci, PaoloHeadline4 early Kabbalah texts of Paolo Ricci, 1510PublisherGiacomo BurgofranchoDate Published1510 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #53 [Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M... AuthorLuther, MartinHeadlineMartin Luther's works Jena ed., 1557-1579PublisherDonatus Ritzenhayn, Thomas Rebart & Christian RhodiusDate Published1557-1579 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #58 The Arte of Warre...set foorth in English by Peter Withorne [with] Certaine Waies for the Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also fugures of certaine new plattes for fortification of towers... [and] Most Briefe Tables to know readily how many ranckes of footmen armed with cvorslettes as unarmed, go to the making of a iust battaile from a hundred unto twenty thousand...by Girolamo Cataneo AuthorMachiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo CataneoHeadlineMachiavelli's Art of War early English 1588PublisherThomas East for John WightDate Published1588 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #64 The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to Cure them AuthorM[arkham, G[ervase]HeadlineRare Young Sportsman's Delight c. 1712PublisherPrinted for G. Conyers at the Gold Ring in Little BritainDate Published[c. 1712] View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #65 National Geographic archive from the collection of Dr. Allen B. "Buck" Catlin largely purchased from Edwin C. Buxbaum Heading(National Geographic Magazine)HeadlineSignificant National Geographic collection of Buck Catlin amassed with help from Edwin C. BuxbaumPublisherNational Geographic SocietyDate Published1888-2010's View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #66 The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning AuthorNostradamus, Michel deHeadlineEnglish edition of Nostradamus 1672PublisherPrinted by Thomas Ratliffe & Nathaniel ThompsonDate Published1672 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #71 A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon AuthorPortlock, NathanielHeadlinePortlock's Voyage Round the World 1789PublisherPrinted for John Stockdale and George GouldingDate Published1789 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #78 An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, for Ascertaining the Degrees of Latitude and Longitude of the Mouth of the River Kovima; of the Whole Coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the Islands in the Eastern Ocean, Stretching to the American Coast. Performed, by Command of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second, Empress of All the Russias, by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the Years 1785, &c. to 1794 AuthorSauer, MartinHeadlineSauer on the Billings expedition 1802PublisherPrinted by A. Strahan for T. Cadell, June. and W. DaviesDate Published1802 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #79 Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta AuthorSchenk, PieterHeadlineSpectacular and rare engravings of 17th c. citiesProvenanceWilliam Henry Crocker (1861-1937)Publisher[P. Schenk]Date Published1702 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000StatusUnsold Lot #81 Cantus, songs and fancies: To thre, foure, or five partes, both apt for voices and viols. With a briefe introduction of musick, as is taught in the musick-schoule of Aberdene by T. D. Mr. of Musick Heading(Scotland)AuthorDavidson, Thomas and John ForbesHeadline1st ed. Davidson's Songs & Fancies, 2nd known copyProvenanceProfessor George Starr CollectionPublisherPrinted by Iohn Forbes, and are to be sold at his shopDate Published1662 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #82 Bifolium from the Nuremberg Chronicle comprising folios XII and XIII Heading(Secunda Etas Mundi)AuthorAnonymousHeadlineWorld map from the Nuremberg ChroniclePublisherHartmann SchedelDate Published1493 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #85 She Lufs Me – She Lufs Me Not AuthorSmith, Jessie WillcoxHeadlineJessie Willcox Smith Collier's Mag cover paintingDate Publishedc.1907-1930s View details Estimate$25,000 - $35,000StatusUnsold Lot #86 A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World... AuthorSparrman, AndrewHeadlineHandsome set of Sparrman's narrative, 1786ProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherG.G.J. and J. RobinsonDate Published1786 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #87 In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria AuthorStanley, Henry M.HeadlineStanley's In Darkest Africa Deluxe Edition signedPublisherCharles Scribner's Sons; D. Appleton and CompanyDate Published1890 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #88 A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster: Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of those Cities. Written at first in the Year MDXCVIII. By John Stow...Since Reprinted and Augmented by the Author...and Others...Now Lastly Corrected, Improved and very much Enlarged...to the Present Time; by John Strype AuthorStow, JohnHeadlineA Survey of the Cities of London and WestminsterPublisherA. Churchill, J. Knapton, et alDate Published[1720] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 [The thirteene bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelue being the worke of the diuine poet Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius...] AuthorVirgilHeadlineVirgil's Aeneid, 1596Publisher[Printed by Thomas Creede]Date Published[1596] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #92 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert AuthorWalton, IzaakHeadlineSigned presentation of Izaak Walton's Lives, 1670PublisherPrinted by Tho. Newcomb for Richard MarriottDate Published1670 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #95 Extensive archive of manuscript letters and drawings by Paul West AuthorWest, PaulHeadlineArchive of 19th century traveler Paul WestDate Publishedc.1860s View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000StatusUnsold Lot #98 Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 . . . A New Edition Heading(Zamorano Eighty - 04)AuthorBeechey, Frederick W.HeadlineSharp copies of Beechey's Voyages, 8vo editionProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherHenry Colburn & Richard BentleyDate Published1831 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,125StatusSold Lot #99 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, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the Command of Captain George Van Heading(Zamorano Eighty - 77)AuthorVancouver, GeorgeHeadlineVancouver's Voyage, 1st edition, Zamorano #77ProvenancePacific Coast BooksPublisherG.G. & J. Robinson, & J. EdwardsDate Published1798 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next