PBA Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Auctions

American Presidents, Politicians & World Leasers with Antiquarian Books in all fields
Sale #814

11am

PBA Galleries
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA

37.865863262347, -122.3021376

PBA Galleries

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Jett W Whitehead Rare Books

1412 Center Ave

Bay City, MI 48708

(989) 892-0719

Book Dealer: Children's Books

E M Maurice Books

(860) 480-2264

Autograph Dealer

Edward N. Bomsey Autographs, Inc.

7317 Farr Street

Annandale, VA 22003-2516

(703) 642-2040

Book Dealer: Antiquarian & Rare

Underground Books

Photographs

May 1956, Ernest Hemingway and a 730lb Marlin

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' Location Photos to Auction

'Henry Wessel: Photographs and Books' at the Grolier Club

Sports and Music Photographs by Michael Zagaris to Auction

Rare Books

Walt Whitman's O brood continental autograph manuscript poem, early 1860s

Walt Whitman’s Working Manuscript of 'O brood continental' Leads Peter Harrington Poetry Catalogue

Finely Bound Dos Passos Trilogy: Rare Books of the Week

Previously Unknown 15th Century Text by Gutenberg Associates Discovered

Maps

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1601

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Visual Art

Frank Earle Schoonover’s Where is the Key, Sola?, painted for the first book edition of A Princess of Mars in 1917

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Lawrence Klein Comic Books and Comic Book Art to Auction

Sponsored

On the Origin of Species

First Edition of “On the Origin of Species” Features at Ripley

1859 First Edition of Darwin’s "On the Origin of Species" to Lead Ripley Rare Books Auctions

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Auctions

Collage-letter by André Breton addressed to Louis Aragon in 1918

André Breton Collage Letter Leads Rare Books Sale at Christie's

Einstein Equation-Filled Letter Sold for $71,811

Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln Letters Lead University Archives Auction

Exhibitions

Frontispiece to Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum

Francis Bacon’s 'Sylva Sylvarum' Stars in New Art and Science Exhibit

Artistry of Bookmaking Highlighted in New Bedford Exhibition

Original Scott Joplin Agreement Leads New Exhibition Tracing History of Ragtime

Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Book People

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers Archive Acquired by the Harry Ransom Center

Alain Riffaud's Molière Catalogue Wins 2026 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography

Bookshop Browsing Raises Wellbeing Reveals New Survey

Americana

Captain Robert A. Lewis’s mission-used flight logbook from the Enola Gay

Enola Gay’s Hiroshima Logbook and Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Lyrics Lead RR Auction Sale

Important African Americana Collection Leads at Freeman's

George Washington Wartime Letter to New York Governor Sold for $45,375