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BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries kicks off its first Rare Books & Manuscripts sale of 2024 on Thursday, February 8 with a 97-lot collection of items ranging from early Albert Einstein publications to probably the finest illustrated collection of mid-19th century Mississippi River views ever created. The complete catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

Henry Lewis (1819–1904) was born in England but moved to the United States in 1833 and soon headed for St. Louis, where he would begin a lifelong fascination with the great and powerful Mississippi River. His artistic skills were honed as a scenery painter at the St. Louis Theater, but he was soon sketching hundreds of images of life in and around St. Louis and the river. He became known for creating immense paintings of river scenes 12 feet tall and more than 1,000 feet in length that would be slowly unrolled before adoring audiences, in an early form of pre-film entertainment.

Unfortunately, none of his huge movie-like panoramas survive, but he did manage to get one volume of his smaller illustrations published: Das Illustrirte Mississippithal, a volume in both English and German with a total of 80 color lithographed plates. PBA’s copy has had expert restoration performed on it, making it a prime example of how Lewis spent the summers of 1846 and 1847, floating down the entire course of the Mississippi River. The book is estimated at $50,000-$80,000.

The Dun Emer Press and Cuala Press were early speciality publishing houses set up and run by the family members of W. B. Yeats. This collection of Dun Emer and Cuala first editions “constitutes one of the most important private presses of the 20th century – if not of the fine press movement as a whole,” as noted by PBA. The publishing houses are described as having been “at the confluence of the Irish Literary Revival and the Arts & Crafts Movement, [when] the early 20th century witnessed the germination and flowering of the modern Irish nation.” The set of first editions, some never opened, is estimated at $40,000-$60,000.

Three papers written by Albert Einstein (1879-1955) that constitute the most important parts of his research — including winning the Nobel Prize for one – come to market at PBA. Collected in Annalen der Physik, Folge Vierte, Band 17 and published in 1905, the papers cover “the photon, atom, and relativity … Einstein‘s photon paper forms the basis of the quantum paradigm, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this paper; his paper researching Brownian Motion established the reality of the atom (and within the next year he established the atom‘s actual size); and his paper on relativity reformulated the nature of space and time – directly leading to the world‘s most famous equation, E = mc², and ultimately to a new theory of gravity (General Relativity).” The volume carries an estimate of $20,000-$30,000.

David Roberts (1796–1864) was an English illustrator who, in partnership with Belgian stone lithographer and colorist Louis Haghe (1806-1885), created what is today considered the most acclaimed views of Egypt of the mid-19th century. Egypt and Nubia from Drawings Made on the Spot was published between 1846 and 1849 and contains 121 duotone lithographs of Giza, Karnac, and Luxor. The folio of three volumes rebound into two is estimated at $20,000-$30,000.
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Henry Lewis, ‘Mississippi Valley’ in color lithography, estimated at $50,000-$80,000 at PBA.
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First edition collection of Dun Emer and Cuala Press works, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at PBA.
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Three of Albert Einstein’s most important papers in ‘Annalen der Physik, Folge Vierte, Band 17,’ estimated at $20,000-$30,000 at PBA.
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David Roberts and Louis Haghe, ‘Egypt and Nubia from Drawings Made on the Spot,’ estimated at $20,000-$30,000 at PBA.
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