PBA Galleries

Date(s)

Thursday, August 14th, 2025

Auctions

Rare & Antiquarian with Fine Press & Fine Bindings
Sale #844

11am

PBA Galleries
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA

37.865863812347, -122.3021318

PBA Galleries

Americana

Items from the Sotheby's sale

$12m Estimate for Washington's Acts of Congress Printing at Sotheby's

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

Photographs

Marilyn Monroe and Paula Strasberg, Something’s Got to Give, 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles May 1962

Marilyn Monroe Photos by Lawrence Schiller On Show Next Month

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

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

Visual Art

Diana in the Corn by Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Novelist Jilly Cooper's Favourite Art Works to Auction

Original Art for Edgar Rice Burroughs Titles Leads Illustration Auction

Robert Louis Stevenson Statue Set for Unveiling

Book People

Return of the Bookseller Diarist by Shaun Bythell

Bookseller Diaries, Folger Shakespeare, and Women in Comics: October Books Roundup

Bright Young Collectors: Ryan R. Martins

Strand Magazine to Publish Rediscovered History by Houdini

Rare Books

1851 Almanac in Cherokee

Cherokee Almanac, 1505 Avicenne, and Rutherford on the Neutron: The Week in Rare Books

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

Finely Bound Dos Passos Trilogy: Rare Books of the Week

Auctions

The Call of the Wild inscribed by Jack London

Bookman Maurice F. Neville's Collection to Auction

JFK’s Top Secret Bay of Pigs Letter to Auction

Library of Economist Michael Kuczynski to Auction

Exhibitions

Hieronymus Tochtermann's Schriften Buch (Augsbourg, 1744-1747), from Librarie Paul Jammes

The Return of Rare Book Dealers to the Palais-Royal in Paris

Charles Dickens's Campaign to Clean Up London's Water Explored in New Exhibition

Unfinished Byron Fragment Leads New Vampire Exhibition

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’

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

Maps

'Beggar' from Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis, c.1822, hand-coloured engravings by Thomas Lord Busby.

Charles Booth's Poverty Maps Lead New Housing Exhibition

Atlases and Maps: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

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