Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes, 1191, Chicago

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Auction Date
October 26, 2024 - October 26, 2024
Page Size: 386 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 [CARTOONS] FORTESCUE, Don.

Fifty-Four Original Cartoons from Abracadabra Magazine.

1976 -- 77 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 600.00
77 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Chung Ling Soo Souvenir Portrait.

N.p., n.d. ca1915. USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 360.00
78 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Archive of Chung Ling Soo Ephemera. Approximately 40 items.

V.p., V.d. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 840.00
79 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

RPPC of Chung Ling Soo.

Circa 1915 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,120.00
80 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Signed Chung Ling Soo Postcard.

Circa 1915. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 960.00
81 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Photograph of the Chung Ling Soo Company.

Circa 1915 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 9,000.00
82 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Portrait and Pictorial Letterhead Display.

Circa 1915 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 900.00
83 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Glasgow Coliseum Program.

1916 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 150.00
84 CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918)

Mourning Portrait of Chung Ling Soo.

[London ca.1918. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,800.00
85 COOKE, Thomas Taplin (1782 -- 1866)

Cooke's New Olympic Arena and Circus.

[Hull], 1840 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 390.00
86 DESARAIS.

Mons. Desarais' Extraordinary Troupe of Performing French Dogs and Monkeys.

Falkirk 1852 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
87 [STANLEY COLLINS] "NIBS" (F. Drummond Niblett, 1861 - 1928)

Portrait of Collins and Bretma.

1909 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 480.00
88 COLLINS, Stanley (1881 -- 1966)

Six Instructional Magic Notebooks.

1890s -- 1930s. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,000.00
89

[COMIC STRIPS - MAGIC] Comic Strips from the Collection of Stanley Collins.

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
90 CREMER, W.H.

Handbill for "A Few Minutes in the World of Magic."

[London, ca1868. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 360.00
91 PINELLI, Bartolomeo (1781 -- 1835)

Il Giocatore di Bussolotti in Roma.

[Rome 1821 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,040.00
92

[CURIOUS CHARACTERS] Fifty Portraits of Remarkable and Curious People.

[London and elsewhere, 1790s -- 1830s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 720.00
93 [DE KOLTA] FIELD, Professor.

London Royal Aquarium Variety Show Silk Program. For the week of October 9, 1886.

1886 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
94 DE KOLTA, BUATIER (Joseph Buatier, 1847 -- 1903)

Oversize Portrait of the French Illusionist.

Circa 1950 ? USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 180.00
95 DE MANFRE, Blaise.

Engraving of the Water-Spouter.

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 300.00
96 DE PHILIPSTHAL, M.

Mechanical & Optical Performances.

Hull, 1806 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,400.00
97 DELAND, Theodore (1873 -- 1931)

Collection of Ephemera and Gimmicked Card Tricks. Included are a handsome ALS from DeLand to [Arthur] Gans on DeLand's pictorial letterhead, dated Jan 19, 1922

1922 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,080.00
98 DEVANT, David (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941)

Collection of Five Magic Programs.

Circa 1890s -- 1918 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 300.00
99 DEVANT, David (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941)

Signed Real Photo Postcard of Devant and the Magic Kettle.

[London] ca.1910 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,020.00
100 DEVANT, David (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941)

The Magic Mirror.

London 1912 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 270.00
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
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