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PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
pba@pbagalleries.com · +1 (0)415 9892665 · +1 (0)415 9891664

Date of the auction: 01.04.2021

Lot number 1
African-American literary and military reference works

Three volumes: Analytical Guide and Index to THE VOICE OF THE NEGRO, 1904-1907. Westport, Ct...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 2
Black history classic, owned by noted California Black lawyer

746pp. Original cloth; silver spine titles. First Edition. Significant association copy, with owner...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$562
Lot number 3
Starring Bill Pickett, inventor of Bull-Dogging

4 pp. Illustrated with photographs. 9½x12". Advertisement for 4 of their films, all featuring...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 4
Rare copy of 1930s Black student journal

12pp. Original wrappers. Possibly the only known copy of the first issue of a planned periodical...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$250
Lot number 5
African-Americans and Anti-slavery in American poetry

Two volumes: Balliet, Conrad. “White on Black: A Check List of Poetry by White Americans about the...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 6
Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway 1/200 large paper

Illustrated from photographs, text illustrations. (8vo) silver cloth decorated in blue. No. 163 of...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 7
Andrews' history of colonial America, in dustjackets

4 volumes. Blue cloth, jackets. Reprints. Vol. I of the series was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 8
Pictorial cartoon map of northern Yavapai County, Arizona

Brochure consisting of single sheet folded to create 6 panels on either side: a color pictorial map...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$375
Lot number 9
Credit ratings of Arizona businesses, 1913

vii, [1], 37 pp. + printed endpapers. Large folding map. 14.5x12 cm (5¾x4¾"), full flexible leather...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$312
Lot number 10
Atomic Bomb scientists Oppenheimer and Rabi imprints

4 items: Oppenheimer, J. Robert . The Open Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. 146 + 1 pp...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 11
1945 Radio speeches by 4 Atomic Bomb scientists, including Oppenheimer

14pp. Original wrappers. Hans Bethe, Harold Urey and James Franck were scientists who worked with...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 12
WITHDRAWN - Audubon, original Havell plate, 1836

Havell edition. Aquatint, etching and line engraving, hand-colored. Drawn from Nature by J.J...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 13
Mary Austin's California: The Land of the Sun

viii, 178 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 32 tipped-in color plates from paintings by Sutton Palmer...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$312
Lot number 14
1890 survey of the California coast photographs

9 photographs. Sizes range from 6x4" to 7½x4½". The U. S. S. Ranger was commissioned to be a survey...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$200
Lot number 15
A rare Barnum edition, 1884

vi, [ix]-xii, [4], 17-355 pp. Illustrated. Green cloth stamped in black, spine lettered in gilt. A...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 16
Signed with an inscription by P.T. Barnum

viii, [13]-785 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of a rather dapper P.T. Barnum. Illustrated...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 17
Say Hey! signed by Willie Mays

Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$200
Lot number 18
League of American Wheelmen (Cyclists) official handbook

128 pp. Illustrated from photographs with period advertisements. Decorative wrappers. First Edition...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 19
Beecher's Reminiscences of a Ranchman inscribed

[4], 314 pp. (8vo) green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 20
Henry Dickson Bruns Some Ideals of Democracy

24 pp. (8vo) printed wrappers. First Edition. An Address delivered before the Era Club of New...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 21
Edwin Bryant, What I saw in California 1848

455 pp. 18.5x12 cm (7¼x4½"), original blindstamped cloth. First Edition. Important, early account of...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$812
Lot number 22
What I Saw in California, G. M. Brooke's copy

480 pp. Frontispiece map of the California gold region; large folding lithographed map by J.H...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,250
Lot number 23
Report on California with maps 1850

952 pp. This is preceded by Index to Executive Documents, Senate, 1st Session, 31st Congress...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$812
Lot number 24
Check and postmark from the town of Bodie, California

Two items comprising: Cancelled check from The Bodie Bank for $79.50 dated June 9th, 1880. Clipped...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$137
Lot number 25
Gunpowder in Contra Costa Co. Cal.

Broadside/sign on thick paper. 27.4x34.5 cm (10¾x13½"). Rare poster printing an ordinance passed by...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 26
Decoto, Cal., brochure with bird's-eye view, 1907

Single sheet, folded into 12 panels on each side, with a large bird's-eye view one side, text and...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$937
Lot number 27
Illicit alcohol in California, 1869 report

207 pp. 22.7x14.2 cm (9x5½"), modern quarter leather & marbled cloth. Investigation into alleged...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 28
Address on Japanese-American relations, 1920

15, [1] pp. including self-wrappers. 22.5x9.7 cm (8¾x3¾"). Frank Vanderlip as an American banker and...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 29
Dr. Seuss Signs of Civil-iz-ation

[8] pp. Illustrated by the author. (8vo) illustrated wrappers. First Printing. T.S. Geisel was a...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$281
Lot number 30
Hand-colored prints of Lake Tahoe

10 hand-colored photographic prints. Photographs are 15.3x20.2 cm (6x8"); mounting leaves 28.2x35 cm...

PBA Galleries, 1 Apr 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$312
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