BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries will conduct a Platinum Auction of Elite Americana & Rare Maps on Thursday, June 30. The sale comprises a selection of 96 valuable examples of historical Americana, including much on Mexico, from printed books and manuscripts to cartography and striking pictorial views, with ephemeral material, broadsides, archives and photographs. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries will hold an auction of Antiquarian Books with Fine Press & Fine Bindings as well as illustrated books with fore-edge paintings on Thursday, June 16. The sale will offer more than 450 lots featuring works of the fine press, finely bound books, and a large selection of fore-edge paintings as well as scarce and antiquarian books, illustrated and children’s books and examples of graphic design. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – On May 12, PBA Galleries conducted a successful sale titled Golf – Books, Clubs & Memorabilia, containing more than 300 lots of golfing history in literature and artifacts of the game.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Rare Books & Manuscripts to be held Thursday, June 2. The sale comprises a selection of more than 200 lots of rare and significant books, with manuscript material dating from the 14th through 20th centuries. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Literature – With the Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture on Thursday, May 19. The sale comprises more than 480 lots of fine literature and ephemera, featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, as well as a large selection from Charles Bukowski, including signed typescript poems. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – On April 21, PBA Galleries offered a small but highly important group of maps, views, and pictorial letter sheets relating to the early history and later development of the city of San Francisco. The assemblage of graphic and cartographic material from the Charles Fracchia collection was gathered during half a century by one of the leading historians of the city. The results often exceeded the published presale estimates, but many of the items were of such rarity, even unique, that the estimates mostly served as starting points. In the end, all 134 lots sold – a white glove auction, the first in the 30-year history of PBA Galleries.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries had an outstanding Photography and Fine Art sale on April 7. The auction consisted of 420 lots featuring the photography collection of Jack and Beverly Waltman. This collection did exceptionally well, with items reaching record highs and even exceeding the highest expectations.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries announces an auction of Americana – Travel – World History – Cartography to take place Thursday, May 5. The sale includes more than 500 lots of interesting and valuable material relating to California, the Americas and the far reaches of the globe. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries‘ Fine Literature Sale 757, held on March 24, was a solid success. It featured more than 400 lots that included important literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, as well as a large selection of the works of Charles Bukowski.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries will hold a 420-lot auction titled Photography and Fine Art – The Jack and Beverly Waltman Collection on April 7. Jack Waltman, an accomplished photographer in his own right, was also a patron to and a collector of many of the 20th century’s finest photographers. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.