Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art: A PBA Platinum Auction
Updated September 7, 2026
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| Date | September 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers |
| Lots | 62 |
| Estimates | $2,000 – $25,000 |
What's in this auction
62 lots, mostly fine art & prints (7), firearms & militaria (1), coins & currency (1). 62 lots have photos. Pre-sale estimates $2,000–$25,000 across 62 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog.
Highest-estimated lots
- Rare 17th century Kabbalistic set — est. $15,000–$25,000
- Rockwell Kent's masterpiece, Moby Dick — est. $7,000–$10,000
- The Annual Register, 1758-1790 — est. $8,000–$10,000
- Heywood's rare History of Women — est. $6,000–$9,000
- Arion Press Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne Thiebaud — est. $6,000–$9,000
From the auction house
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In this auction (62 lots)
Categories: Fine Art & Prints (7) · Firearms & Militaria (1) · Coins & Currency (1)
- Lot 1 — Ancient Greek battle tactics
- Lot 2 — Lord Hatherley photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron signed
- Lot 3 — Paul Celan poems w/ etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, signed
- Lot 4 — Chagall Jerusalem Windows with 15 signatures!
- Lot 5 — Stephen Crane ALS to editor of the Critic, 1896
- Lot 6 — Sketchbooks & drawing by interned artist, Henry Fukuhara
- Lot 7 — Complete works of O. Henry with manuscript page
- Lot 8 — Heywood's rare History of Women
- Lot 9 — 17th c. account of mythic Merlin
- Lot 10 — Tom Killion signed prints of the Bolinas Ridge
- Lot 11 — Lincoln Memorial ed. of Lafrentz's cowboy poems, w/ 50 signed plates
- Lot 12 — Rockwell Kent's masterpiece, Moby Dick
- Lot 13 — Beth Pewther painting of Glenn Todd
- Lot 14 — Poe translated by Baudelaire, illustrated by Lobel-Riche
- Lot 15 — Hand-colored artist's book signed by the Dada Queen of Greenwich Village
- Lot 16 — Twain's Jumping Frog 1st edition
- Lot 17 — 4 von Gloeden scenes of Taormina, c. 1900s
- Lot 18 — Arion Press Physiology of Taste signed by Wayne Thiebaud
- Lot 19 — Ashendene Press edition of Thucydides 1930
- Lot 20 — 1795 Killer Bible, with plates by Fittler
- Lot 21 — The First US textbook of botany
- Lot 22 — With 560 botanical plates
- Lot 23 — Assessing property in Alameda County, 1858
- Lot 24 — History of Nevada County with litho plates 1880
- Lot 25 — William Copland's 1553 ed. of Caxton's 1st book in English
- Lot 26 — Shanghai's high society in 1935
- Lot 27 — With 145 engravings used in American Currency
- Lot 28 — Keats's Poems from the Doves Press
- Lot 29 — The Complete Catalogue of Jean Dubuffet's works
- Lot 30 — Regicidal writings of the English Civil War, 1661
- Lot 31 — 29 historical documents of Charles II & James II of England
- Lot 32 — Scarce Felice Beato album of Japanese cartes de visite
- Lot 33 — A. Farsari hand-colored photo album 1880s Japan
- Lot 34 — Kusakabe Kimbei mammoth albumen print
- Lot 35 — Ukiyoye masterpieces Edition de Luxe 5 vol. set - one of 100 copies
- Lot 36 — Rare 17th century Kabbalistic set
- Lot 37 — With 10 stunning plates in full morocco
- Lot 38 — Global manuscripts of the British Museum, transcribed
- Lot 39 — Promotional for Mercury Aviation, 1919
- Lot 40 — *WITHDRAWN*
- Lot 41 — Curtis orotone, The Vanishing Race
- Lot 42 — Samuel Felton's Copy of Keeler's National Map with Indian reservations, 1867
- Lot 43 — Scarce album of the finest birds, c. 1860
- Lot 44 — Moser's signed Wizard of Oz, Pennyroyal Press
- Lot 45 — Pennyroyal Huckleberry Finn with additional suite of prints & reading copy
- Lot 46 — 19th c. Italian photo album of Asia and Africa
- Lot 47 — Catalogue Raisonné of Pablo Picasso
- Lot 48 — Lindsay on the taking of Goree, with all 9 plates
- Lot 49 — Dr. Seuss Carbonic Walrus, Unorthodox Taxidermy
- Lot 62 — John Lennon erotic lithograph, signed and numbered
- Lot 50 — Dr. Seuss Secret Cats print, Green Cat in Finnish Subway
- Lot 51 — Dr. Seuss serigraph, 1/99
- Lot 52 — Dr. Seuss serigraph, 1/99
- Lot 53 — Dr. Seuss Sawfish sculpture, Unorthodox Taxidermy
- Lot 54 — Singing Cats serigraph 1/850
- Lot 55 — First published illustration by Dr. Seuss - 1920
- Lot 56 — Two Jesuit missions to Kingdom of Siam
- Lot 57 — English Pilot Pt. III, Mediterranean maps & atlases
- Lot 58 — The Annual Register, 1758-1790
- Lot 59 — Whaling journal from 1857-61
- Lot 60 — Pamphlet against existence of witches, 1736
- Lot 61 — Webster debunks witchcraft in 1677
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