Rare Book Auctions from the CSSA Library
The Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA) has partnered with PBA Galleries to offer a selection of rare books from the CSSA Library through two virtual auctions. CSSA members and other interested bidders can browse the books online in advance of each auction to review the available titles and plan their bidding.
Auction 1: Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time
View the October 29 Auction Catalog
Auction 2: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Both auctions will take place online through PBA Galleries. We encourage members to explore the catalogs ahead of time and take advantage of this opportunity to acquire rare and interesting books from the CSSA Library.
Auction Items for the October 29th Auction
Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées
Baillon, H.
Index Plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo Reperiuntur
Boerhaave, Hermanno
Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum Opus, Quod in ordinem redegit et direxit Horatius R. Descole
Descole, Horatius R.
Miscellanea Naturalia, sive Dissertationes Variæ ad Historiam Naturalem Spectantes
Haworth, A.H.
The Genera of North American Plants, and A Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817
Nuttall, Thomas
Hortus Dyckensis [bound with] Cacteae in Horto Dyckensi Cultae Anno 1844
Salm-Reifferscheidt, Joseph
A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature: As Founded upon a Plan of the Late Mr. Addison
Bradley, Richard
Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, sive Ordines, Genera et Species
Candolle, Aug. Pyramo de
Cactaceae of the Boundary
Englemann, George
Considérations sur la famille des Euphorbiacées [bound with] De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque Earumdem Viribus Tentamen…
Jussieu, Adrien de
The De La Cruz – Badiano, Aztec Herbal of 1552
Gates, William, translator
On Welwitschia, a New Genus of Gnetaceae
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Monographia Generis Melocacti
Miquel, F.A. Guil.
Historiæ Naturalis Libri XXXVII
[Pliny the Elder]
The Cactaceæ: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family
Britton, N.L. and J.N. Rose
Saguaros
Klett, Mark
The Cactus Journal. Devoted exclusively to Cacti and other Succulent Plants. With Illustrations
Walton, F.A.
The November 12 Auction Catalog will be posted soon
