Auction details
Rare Books & Manuscripts
1:00 PM PT - Feb 19th, 2009
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108
Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
20% up to 100000
20% above 100001
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
Auction House Preview
Tuesday, February 17, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 18, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, February 19, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
154 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
|
Robinson Jeffers Poems Signed by Ansel Adams |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 2 |
|
Agrippa's Occult Philosophy 1651 |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 3 |
|
Rare work on Architecture by Albertolli |
1,200 - 1,800 |
|
| 4 |
|
Quaestiones Naturales et Morales 1555 |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 5 |
|
Archimedes, Apollonius & Theodosius 1675 |
2,500 - 3,500 |
|
| 6 |
|
Arion Press Invisible Cities |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 7 |
|
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit |
400 - 700 |
|
| 8 |
|
Arion Press The Apocalypse, Illus. by Jim Dine |
2,500 - 3,500 |
|
| 9 |
|
Ferlinghetti Coney Island of the Mind Arion Press |
400 - 600 |
|
| 10 |
|
Incuable edition of Aristophanes 1498 Aldine |
15,000 - 20,000 |
|
| 11 |
|
Aristotle's Organon 1483 in Grand Format |
20,000 - 25,000 |
|
| 12 |
|
Francis Bacon Opera Omnia 1665 |
500 - 800 |
|
| 13 |
|
Barros and Couto Da Asia 1777-1788 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
|
| 14 |
|
Three works by Thomas & Caspar Bartholinus 1676 |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 15 |
|
Bartram's Travels First English Edition 1792 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
|
| 16 |
|
Beatties Dissertations Moral & Critical 1783 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 17 |
|
1583 New Testament in English With Psalms |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 18 |
|
1613 folio King James Bible Four Gospels |
3,000 - 5,000 |
|
| 19 |
|
Bible with J. Cole's historical engravings 1723 |
1,500 - 2,000 |
|
| 20 |
|
Blackstone's Commentaries 4th Edition 1790 |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 21 |
|
The Grave 1808 William Blake Engravings folio ed. |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 22 |
|
The Decameron of Boccaccio 1816 Folio Edition |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 23 |
|
Bodoni printing of Petrarca's Rimes 1799 |
800 - 1,200 |
|
| 24 |
|
Scarce Officina Bodoni Work By Ridolfi |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 25 |
|
1722 Dublin Edition of the Book of Common Prayer |
600 - 900 |
|
| 26 |
|
Boscovich's Theory of Natural Philosophy 1922 |
600 - 900 |
|
| 27 |
|
Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, 1st ed with dj |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 28 |
|
Rare Memoir of a Child's Life in a Cotton Mill |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 29 |
|
Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion 1736 |
400 - 700 |
|
| 30 |
|
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Alexander Calder |
500 - 800 |
|
| 31 |
|
Scarce work on classical Iconography 1587 |
600 - 900 |
|
| 32 |
|
The Decisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 33 |
|
Separate Reality inscribed by Carlos Castaneda |
500 - 800 |
|
| 34 |
|
Wm. Cavendish on Equestrian Training 1677 |
1,200 - 1,800 |
|
| 35 |
|
Early English edition of Don Quixote 1620 |
2,500 - 3,500 |
|
| 36 |
|
Early English Edition of Don Quixote |
6,000 - 9,000 |
|
| 37 |
|
Cezanne with original lithographs and etching |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 38 |
|
Paul Cezzane by Vollard with original etching |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 39 |
|
Les Characteres des Passions 1648 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 40 |
|
Chinese Atlas Qing Dynasty |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 41 |
|
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion 1st Edn |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 42 |
|
Cook's Three Voyages, first editions, with Atlas |
30,000 - 50,000 |
|
| 43 |
|
Bartolozzi/Webber Death of Captain Cook 1784 |
7,000 - 10,000 |
|
| 44 |
|
Eduardo Corsini Notae Graecorum 1749 |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 45 |
|
Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach 1st Edition |
2,500 - 3,500 |
|
| 46 |
|
Darwin's Descent of Man Inscribed First Edition |
8,000 - 12,000 |
|
| 47 |
|
L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ Maurice Denis Illustr |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 48 |
|
Descartes Six Meditations 1st in English 1680 |
6,000 - 8,000 |
|
| 49 |
|
Early Printing of Dickens Christmas Carol 1844 |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 50 |
|
Plate volume to Diderot's Encyclopedie 1769 |
3,000 - 5,000 |
