PBA Galleries – Photography & Fine Art Fine Press & Fine Bindings with Natural History & Mountaineering
Thursday, June 12, 2025
605 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94710
www.pbagalleries.com

Nearly 350 lots including photographs, photobooks, fine art, prints, art books, works of the fine press, fine bindings, natural history, and mountaineering. Featured are collections of the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series, photogravures by Edward S. Curtis, and artists’ books by Ed Ruscha. Other highlights include an extensive collection of natural history books including substantial offerings from the fathers of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Complementing the natural history and geology books is a collection of works on alpinism and mountaineering.
Archive of artists’ sketches, watercolors, and original photographs by Albert and Mary Stevens whose patrons included Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Hill Meserve. With 100 gelatin silver print portraits of Abraham Lincoln
Every Building on the Sunset Strip. The most famous boulevard in Los Angeles as captured by Ruscha in a unique panorama
One Picture Book series from Nazraeli Press. Each volume with an original print.
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909 with the complete portfolio of panoramas and maps
The Journey of a Voyage in HM.S. Beagle by Charles Darwin. Facsimile edition bound by Zaehnsdorf, 1/50
SPECIALISTS IN EXCEPTIONAL BOOKS & PRIVATE LIBRARIES AT AUCTION BOOKS – MANUSCRIPTS – MAPS – PHOTOGRAPHS – WORKS ON PAPER
605 Addison Street: Berkeley, CA : 94710 415.989.2665 pba@pbagalleries.com www.pbagalleries.com