Auction details
Fine Books & Manuscripts
1:00 PM PT - Sep 17th, 2009
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108

Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
22.5%
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
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Tuesday, September 15, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, September 16, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, September 17, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
172 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
|
Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists |
500 - 800 |
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| 2 |
|
Original drawings & watercolors of Boer War |
6,000 - 9,000 |
|
| 3 |
|
5 London pubs from 1848-49 bound together |
300 - 500 |
|
| 4 |
|
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th printing in jacket |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 5 |
|
Marcus Antoninus reflections 1800 engravings |
400 - 600 |
|
| 6 |
|
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night |
1,500 - 2,000 |
|
| 7 |
|
The Arabian Nights Forster Translation 1810 |
400 - 700 |
|
| 8 |
|
history of astronomy by George Costard 1767 |
400 - 600 |
|
| 9 |
|
Manilius Sphere inscribed by trans. Ed. Sherburne |
18,000 - 25,000 |
|
| 10 |
|
Marechal's Dictionnaire des Athees |
300 - 500 |
|
| 11 |
|
Decameron by Boccaccio in Italian 1761 2vols |
300 - 500 |
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| 12 |
|
Francis Bacon Opera Omnia 1665 |
600 - 900 |
|
| 13 |
|
Discourse of the Laws and Government of England |
300 - 500 |
|
| 14 |
|
Richard Bentley on the Phalaris 1699 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 15 |
|
1615 New Testament Bible by Robert Barker |
400 - 600 |
|
| 16 |
|
Tempel of Derr 1913 Lower Nubia by Blackman |
300 - 500 |
|
| 17 |
|
The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds |
500 - 800 |
|
| 18 |
|
Life of Betty Bolaine |
300 - 500 |
|
| 19 |
|
15th century manuscript Latin Breviary |
4,000 - 6,000 |
|
| 20 |
|
Thomas Brown Pseudodoxia Epidemica |
300 - 500 |
|
| 21 |
|
The Book of the Dead |
800 - 1,200 |
|
| 22 |
|
Le Petit Journal des Refuseés 1896 No. 1 sf, ca |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 23 |
|
the Kasidah by Richard F. Burton 1/10 copies1905 |
500 - 800 |
|
| 24 |
|
Treatise on Electricity by Tiberius Cavallo 3d ed |
800 - 1,200 |
|
| 25 |
|
Spanish cavalry exercises 1825 |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 26 |
|
Winston S. Churchill The Second World War |
500 - 800 |
|
| 27 |
|
Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr Pope 1742 |
500 - 800 |
|
| 28 |
|
Cobden-Sanderson's copy or Wordsworth |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 29 |
|
art of cookery Richard Briggs 1792 |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 30 |
|
Popes' portraits, engr. 1783 Stephano Coppa |
300 - 500 |
|
| 31 |
|
Bacon's Essays Cresset Press Edition |
500 - 800 |
|
| 32 |
|
Cresset Press Edition Pilgrim's Progress |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 33 |
|
Almanach Royal, Annee Bissextile M.DCC.LXIV |
1,200 - 1,800 |
|
| 34 |
|
Constitution and Revolutions of Geneva |
300 - 500 |
|
| 35 |
|
Darwin's Origin of Species, 2nd edition |
1,500 - 2,500 |
|
| 36 |
|
1 volume from Charles Paul De Kock's works |
3,000 - 5,000 |
|
| 37 |
|
3 vols from Charles Paul De Kock's works |
5,000 - 7,000 |
|
| 38 |
|
Dean's Guide to the Art of Penmanship... 1808 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 39 |
|
memoirs of sundry trans World-Moon Defoe 1705 |
300 - 500 |
|
| 40 |
|
Descartes Six Meditations 1st in English 1680 |
5,000 - 7,000 |
|
| 41 |
|
Dibdin's Bibliographical Tour Large Paper Edition |
1,200 - 1,800 |
|
| 42 |
|
Clipped signature of Charles Dickens |
400 - 600 |
|
| 43 |
|
Dickens Oliver Twist First Edition Finely Bound |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 44 |
|
Dickens' Works Finely Bound |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 45 |
|
Dryden's Fables 1700 |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 46 |
|
Poems on Various Occasions 1701 |
400 - 600 |
|
| 47 |
|
Du Bartas His Devine Weekes and Workes |
800 - 1,200 |
|
| 48 |
|
Typed Letter signed by Albert Einstein, 1938 |
2,000 - 3,000 |
|
| 49 |
|
Signed portrait of Albert Einstein |
1,000 - 1,500 |
|
| 50 |
|
Einstein papers in Annalen der Physik Vol 17 1905 |
12,000 - 15,000 |



















































