Sale 871: Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Art: A PBA Platinum Auction (#871) 09/03/2026 11:00 AM PDT Starts Ending 09/03/2026 11:00 AM PDT Auction Info 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 1-62 of 62. Previous|1|Next Lot #1 The Tactiks of Aelian; Or, art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner... AuthorAelianus TacticusHeadlineAncient Greek battle tacticsPublisherLawrence LisleDate Published[1616]; 1631 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #2 William Page Wood, Lord Hatherley AuthorCameron, Julia MargaretHeadlineLord Hatherley photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron signedDate Published1868 Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Starting$2,500 Lot #3 Schwarzmaut AuthorCelan, PaulHeadlinePaul Celan poems w/ etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, signedPublisherBrunidorDate Published1969 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #4 The Jerusalem Windows with 15 signatures AuthorChagall, MarcHeadlineChagall Jerusalem Windows with 15 signatures!PublisherGeorge Braziller by arrangement with André SauretDate Published[1962] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$2,500 (3 bids) Lot #5 Autograph letter, signed, from Stephen Crane to an editor of the Critic AuthorCrane, StephenHeadlineStephen Crane ALS to editor of the Critic, 1896Date Published1896 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,100 (2 bids) Lot #6 Artist sketchbooks and early charcoal drawing by interned Japanese American artist, Henry Fukuhara AuthorFukuhara, HenryHeadlineSketchbooks & drawing by interned artist, Henry FukuharaDate Published1932-1997 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,600 (3 bids) Lot #7 The Complete Works of O. Henry AuthorHenry, O.HeadlineComplete works of O. Henry with manuscript pagePublisherDoubleday, Page & CompanyDate Published1912 Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Starting$2,500 Lot #8 Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History Concerninge Women: Inscribed by Ye Names of Ye Nine Muses AuthorHeywood, ThomasHeadlineHeywood's rare History of WomenPublisherPrinted by Adam IslipDate Published1624 Login to bid Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Starting$3,500 Lot #9 The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophesies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Annals AuthorHeywood, ThomasHeadline17th c. account of mythic MerlinPublisherPrinted by J. OkesDate Published1641 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #10 Bolinas Ridge to Pt. Montara [with] Bolinas Ridge to Duxbury Pt. AuthorKillion, TomHeadlineTom Killion signed prints of the Bolinas RidgePublisherThe Quail PressDate Published2004 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$2,250 (2 bids) Lot #11 Cowboy Stuff AuthorLafrentz, F[erdinand] W[illiam]HeadlineLincoln Memorial ed. of Lafrentz's cowboy poems, w/ 50 signed platesPublisherPutnam's SonsDate Published1927 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,400 (2 bids) Lot #12 Moby Dick or the Whale - Signed by Rockwell Kent AuthorMelville, HermanHeadlineRockwell Kent's masterpiece, Moby DickPublisherThe Lakeside PressDate Published1930 Login to bid Estimate$7,000 - $10,000Starting$3,500Current absentee$7,500 (3 bids) Lot #13 Oil painting of Glenn Todd AuthorPewther, Beth (Liz Breger)HeadlineBeth Pewther painting of Glenn ToddDate Published1974 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #14 Vingt Histoires Extraordinaires AuthorPoe, Edgar AllanHeadlinePoe translated by Baudelaire, illustrated by Lobel-RichePublisherLe Livre de PlantinDate Published[1927] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #15 Nudes and Incidentals AuthorTice, Clara and LazarHeadlineHand-colored artist's book signed by the Dada Queen of Greenwich VillagePublisherH. CunninghamDate Published1924 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$3,250 (4 bids) Lot #16 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineTwain's Jumping Frog 1st editionPublisherC.H. WebbDate Published1867 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$3,250 (2 bids) Lot #17 Four prints by von Gloeden Authorvon Gloeden, WilhelmHeadline4 von Gloeden scenes of Taormina, c. 1900sDate Publishedc. 1900 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #18 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Heading(Arion Press)AuthorBrillat-Savarin, Jean AnthelmeHeadlineArion Press Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne ThiebaudPublisherArion PressDate Published1994 Login to bid Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Starting$3,000Current absentee$3,000 (1 bid) Lot #19 [History of the Peloponnesian War] Heading(Ashendene Press)AuthorThucydidesHeadlineAshendene Press edition of Thucydides 1930PublisherAshendene PressDate Published1930 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$3,000 (4 bids) Lot #20 The Holy Bible. Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler from Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters Heading(Bible in English)Headline1795 Killer Bible, with plates by FittlerPublisherR. BowyerDate Published[1795] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,900 (2 bids) Lot #21 Elements of Botany: or Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables [with] Collections for an Essay towards a Materia Medica of the United-States Heading(Botany)AuthorBarton, Benjamin SmithHeadlineThe First US textbook of botanyPublisherPrinted for the authorDate Published1801-1803 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #22 Herbier de la France, ou Collection Complette des Plantes Indigenes de ce Royaume; Avec leurs Détails Anatomiques, leurs propriétés, et leurs usages en Medecine Heading(Botany)AuthorBulliard, PierreHeadlineWith 560 botanical platesPublisherChez l'auteur, et al.Date Published1780-[1792] Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #23 Assessment Roll of Alameda County, For the Year 1858 and 1859 Heading(California - Alameda County)HeadlineAssessing property in Alameda County, 1858Date Published1859 Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Starting$3,000Current absentee$3,000 (1 bid) Lot #24 History of Nevada County, California, With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Manufacturies. From Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability Heading(California - Nevada County)AuthorWells, Harry LaurenzHeadlineHistory of Nevada County with litho plates 1880PublisherThompson & WestDate Published1880 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #25 The recuile of the histories of Troie... translated out of Frenche in to Englishe by Wyllyam Caxton Mercer of London Heading(Caxton, William)AuthorLefèvre, RaoulHeadlineWilliam Copland's 1553 ed. of Caxton's 1st book in EnglishPublisherWyllyam CoplandDate Published1553 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$2,000Current absentee$2,250 (2 bids) Lot #26 Shanghai: 1935 Heading(China)AuthorDay, RuthHeadlineShanghai's high society in 1935PublisherThe Saunders Studio PressDate Published1936 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500 Lot #27 U.S. Treasury, Specimens Heading(Currency)HeadlineWith 145 engravings used in American CurrencyPublisherBureau of Engraving and PrintingDate Published[c. 1869-1876] Login to bid Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Starting$1,250Current absentee$1,800 (2 bids) Lot #28 Keats Heading(Doves Press)AuthorKeats, JohnHeadlineKeats's Poems from the Doves PressPublisher[Doves Press]Date Published1914 Login to bid Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Starting$2,000Current absentee$3,250 (2 bids) Lot #29 Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet Heading(Dubuffet, Jean)HeadlineThe Complete Catalogue of Jean Dubuffet's worksDate Published[1966-1991] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #30 Rebels no Saints: Or, a Collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters, and Prayers of those Persons Lately Executed... Heading(English Civil War)Author[W.S.]HeadlineRegicidal writings of the English Civil War, 1661PublisherPrinted, and are to be sold by the several Book-sellers in London and Westminster-hallDate Published1661 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #31 Historical documents of Charles II and James II Heading(English Royalty)Headline29 historical documents of Charles II & James II of EnglandDate Published1660-1685 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #32 Album of forty-eight hand-colored cartes de visite portraits Heading(Japan)AuthorBeato, FeliceHeadlineScarce Felice Beato album of Japanese cartes de visiteDate Publishedc.1863 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #33 Adolfo Farsari album of 66 hand-colored albumen photographs of Japan Heading(Japan)AuthorFarsari, Adolfo (studios)HeadlineA. Farsari hand-colored photo album 1880s JapanPublisherA. Farsari & Co.Date Publishedc.1880's Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #34 Mammoth plate photograph of Fujiyama from Numagawa River Heading(Japan)AuthorKimbei, KusakabeHeadlineKusakabe Kimbei mammoth albumen printDate Published[c. 1880] Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500 Lot #35 Masterpieces Selected from the Ukiyoye School Heading(Japan)AuthorShiichi, TajimaHeadlineUkiyoye masterpieces Edition de Luxe 5 vol. set - one of 100 copiesPublisherThe Shimbi ShoinDate Published1906-1909 Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Starting$2,500Current absentee$2,500 (1 bid) Lot #36 Kabbala Denudata Heading(Kabbalah)AuthorRosenroth, Christian Knorr, Baron von, compiler & translatorHeadlineRare 17th century Kabbalistic setDate Published1677-1684 Login to bid Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Starting$7,500 Lot #37 Au Royaume de la Perle Heading(Lanoë, Charles)AuthorRosenthal, LeonardHeadlineWith 10 stunning plates in full moroccoPublisherL'Edition d'Art, H. PiazzaDate Published[1920] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #38 Collectanea Miscellanea Orientalia Heading(Manuscript Miscellany)AuthorHunt, GeorgeHeadlineGlobal manuscripts of the British Museum, transcribedDate Published1820 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #39 Flying: The New Industry Heading(Mercury Aviation Company)HeadlinePromotional for Mercury Aviation, 1919PublisherMercury Aviation Co.Date Published[1919] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #40 The Rubaiyat ***WITHDRAWN*** Heading(Mosher, Thomas B.)AuthorKhayyam, OmarHeadlineMosher and Grigsby's Rubaiyat, 7 of 10 on vellum ***WITHDRAWN***PublisherThomas B. Mosher and Emilie GrigsbyDate Published1899 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #41 The Vanishing Race Heading(Native American)AuthorCurtis, Edward S.HeadlineCurtis orotone, The Vanishing RaceDate Published1904 / c.1919 Login to bid Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Starting$2,000Current absentee$2,250 (2 bids) Lot #42 National Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made by the authority of the Hon. O.H. Browning Secretary of the Interior. In the Office of the Indian Bureau Chiefly for Government Purposes under the direction of the Hon. N.G. Taylor Commise. of Indian affairs & Hon. Chas. E. Mix Chief Clerk of the Indian Bureau Heading(Native American)AuthorKeeler, William J.HeadlineSamuel Felton's Copy of Keeler's National Map with Indian reservations, 1867PublisherJ.F. Gedney, Lithographer, Engraver & Plate PrinterDate Published1867 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #43 Album of the Finest Birds of all Countries Heading(Ornithology)Author[Becker, Wilhelm]HeadlineScarce album of the finest birds, c. 1860PublisherWeik & WieckDate Published[c. 1860] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #44 L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Heading(Pennyroyal Press)AuthorBaum, L. FrankHeadlineMoser's signed Wizard of Oz, Pennyroyal PressPublisherPennyroyalDate Published1985 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,900 (4 bids) Lot #45 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heading(Pennyroyal Press)AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlinePennyroyal Huckleberry Finn with additional suite of prints & reading copyPublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,400 (4 bids) Lot #46 Late nineteenth century travel photograph album of East Asia, India, Africa, and Egypt Heading(Photograph Albums)Headline19th c. Italian photo album of Asia and AfricaDate Publishedc.1860-1880 Login to bid Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Starting$3,000 Lot #47 Pablo Picasso Heading(Picasso, Pablo)AuthorZervos, Christian, editorHeadlineCatalogue Raisonné of Pablo PicassoPublisherCahiers d'Art; E. WeyheDate Published1932-1967 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,100 (2 bids) Lot #48 A Voyage to the Coast of Africa in 1758. Containing a succinct Account of the Expedition, and the taking of the island of Goree, by a squadron commanded by The Honourable Augustus Keppel Heading(Senegal)AuthorLindsay, Rev. JohnHeadlineLindsay on the taking of Goree, with all 9 platesPublisherPrinted for S. PatersonDate Published1759 Login to bid Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Starting$2,500Current absentee$2,500 (1 bid) Lot #49 Carbonic Walrus, from The Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineDr. Seuss Carbonic Walrus, Unorthodox TaxidermyPublisherThe Estate of Dr. SeussDate Published1995 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$2,000 Lot #50 Green Cat in Uleåborg Finland Subway Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineDr. Seuss Secret Cats print, Green Cat in Finnish SubwayPublisherThe Estate of Dr. SeussDate Published2003 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500 Lot #51 Greenish Cat on a Pinkish Pot Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineDr. Seuss serigraph, 1/99 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #52 Pinkish Cat on a Greenish Pot Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineDr. Seuss serigraph, 1/99 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000 Lot #53 Sawfish, from The Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineDr. Seuss Sawfish sculpture, Unorthodox TaxidermyPublisherThe Estate of Dr. SeussDate Published2003 Login to bid Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Starting$1,800 Lot #54 Singing Cats Heading(Seuss, Dr.)HeadlineSinging Cats serigraph 1/850Date Publishedc. 2000 Login to bid Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Starting$1,300 Lot #55 Central Recorder - Jan. 21, 1920 Heading(Seuss, Dr.)AuthorHaile, Pennington et al, editorsHeadlineFirst published illustration by Dr. Seuss - 1920PublisherThe Pupils of Central High SchoolDate Published1920 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$3,750 (2 bids) Lot #56 Voyage de Siam [with] Second Voyage du Pere Tachard Heading(Thailand)AuthorTachard, GuyHeadlineTwo Jesuit missions to Kingdom of SiamDate Published1686; 1689 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,400 (2 bids) Lot #57 The English Pilot. Part III: Describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Bays, Roads, Harbours, Rivers and Ports; together with the Soundings, Sands, Rocks and Dangers in the whole Mediterranean Sea... Heading(The English Pilot)HeadlineEnglish Pilot Pt. III, Mediterranean maps & atlasesPublisherPrinted for J. Mount, T. Page, and W. MountDate Published1776 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500 Lot #58 The Annual Register, 1758-1790 Heading(U.S. Political History)HeadlineThe Annual Register, 1758-1790PublisherDodsleyDate Published1758-1790 Login to bid Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Starting$4,000 Lot #59 Manuscript journal of a seaman on the whaling ship Jireh Swift Heading(Whaling)AuthorFarrell, John O.HeadlineWhaling journal from 1857-61Date Published1857-1861 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,100 (2 bids) Lot #60 A Discourse on Witchcraft, Occasioned by a Bill now depending in Parliament, to repeal the Statute made in the first Year of the Reign of King James I, Intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits. Heading(Witchcraft)HeadlinePamphlet against existence of witches, 1736PublisherPrinted for J. Read, in White-FryarsDate Published1736 Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Lot #61 The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests or the like, is utterly denied and disproved... Heading(Witchcraft)AuthorWebster, JohnHeadlineWebster debunks witchcraft in 1677PublisherPrinted by J.M.Date Published1677 Login to bid Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Starting$1,500Current absentee$1,600 (2 bids) Lot #62 Erotic #5, from the Bag One series Heading(Yoko Ono)AuthorLennon, JohnHeadlineJohn Lennon erotic lithograph, signed and numberedDate Published[1970] Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Starting$1,000Current absentee$1,000 (1 bid) Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next