Potter and Potter Auctions: The Ricky Jay Collection: Part 3, 1187, Chicago

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Auction Date
August 17, 2024 - August 17, 2024
Page Size: 496 items in 20 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
107 [CHANG AND ENG]. ALLEN, Harrison.

Report of An Autopsy of the Bodies of Chang and Eng Bunker.

Philadelphia 1875 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
109 after Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 -- 1669

Le Charlatan. Engraving after Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 -- 1669) depicting a traveling quack medical practitioner.

1635 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,080.00
110 [CHARTERIS, Francis 1675 -- 1732].

Some Authentick Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Ch[arteris], Rape-Master-General of Great Britain. By an Impartial Hand.

London 1730 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 360.00
111

[CHILD WONDERS]. Group of 13 CDVs of Child Gymnasts and Acrobats.

V.p. ca. 1870s---80s. USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 360.00
112

[CHINESE MAGICIANS]. Wan Sing! The Great Knife-Thrower.

Philadelphia 1853 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,140.00
113 MODESTY DID NOT SUIT HIM<br>CHUNG Ling Soo (William Ellsworth Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Chung Ling Soo. A Gift From the Gods.

Birmingham ca. 1912 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,400.00
114

Oversize cabinet photograph of the Choy Heng Wa troupe.

Posen ca. 1880s. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,080.00
115

Circassian Enchantress Magic Handbill.

Gardiner [ca. 1842. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,320.00
116 F.P. Pitzer.

The Circus Scrap Book. F.P. Pitzer. V1 N1 (Jan. 1929) -- N16 (Oct. 1932)

1929-1932 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
117

Royal Circus Ephemera. Includes: ALS from John Cartwright Cross (1770s - 1810), part-proprietor and acting-manager of the Royal Circus, which mentions Buchinger (possibly a descendant of Matthew Buchinger) in the band.

Circa 1800. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
118

Carlo Family!

New York ca. 1860s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 570.00
119

Cooke's Historic and Magnificent Tournament.

England 1840 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
120

Cooke's New Royal Circus.

Hartlepool 1848 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 360.00
121

Howes' Great London Circus, Hippodrome, and Sanger's English Menagerie of Trained Animals.

N.p. ca. 1870s. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,920.00
122

The Last Night of Timour the Tartar.

United States ca. 1816. USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 360.00
123

Welsh's New Golden Allied Pavilion Shows! N.p.

ca. 1890s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,560.00
124

Adam Forepaugh Show Group Portrait.

N.p. 1894 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 270.00
125

Two circus songsters. Including: The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Songster.

New York ca. 1890s. USD 125.00 - 175.00 USD 180.00
126 [CIRCUS]. SALTARINO, Signor. Fahrend Volk.

Abnormitaten, Kuriositaten und interessante Vertreter der wandernded Kunstlerwelt.

Leipzig 1895 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
127

A Brief Biographical Sketch of I.A. Van Amburgh, and an Illustrated and Descriptive History of the Animals Contained in Mammoth Menagerie and Great Moral Exhibition.

New York 1850s. USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 180.00
128

Agents Wanted For The Grand New Book, Theatrical And Circus Life! St.

Louis ca. 1883 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
129

Greatest Show On Earth. Most Stupendous Concatination of Curios, Cranks, Freaks and Fakes Ever Gathered Together Under One Canvas.

Columbus ca. 1900. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 510.00
130

Group of 5 Illustrated Letterpress Broadsides for Circus Acts. Including: "Theatre Royal, Birmingham... Ninth Appearance of Mrs. Deacle and Sixth Night of Mons. Pledge Who Will Introduce Several Astonishing Novelties...

Birmingham n.d. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 510.00
131 CLARENCE, H. G. (Professor Nunc-Nunez)

A Pleasant Pastime.

Darwen, England ca. 1880 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
132 CLARKE, Sidney W. (1864 -- 1940)

The Annals of Conjuring.

Seattle 2001 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
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