Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 1193, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
552

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of Nearly 86 Black and White Snapshots of the New York World's Fair.

New York 1939-40. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
553

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [AVIATION]. Group of 5 Black and White Snapshots of a Biplane.

Illinois, n.d. ca.1920s-40s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
554

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Trio of Early Portraits of Baseball Players.

N.p. ca.1890s-1910s. USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
555

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. "Pueblo de Taos" Imperial Cabinet Card.

New Mexico 1893 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
556

[PORTUGUESE "BELENZADA AFFAIR"]. Manuscript Account (by an Unnamed British Marine) of Queen Maria II's (1819-53) Counter Revolution.

Lisbon, November 3-10 1836 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
557

[PRUSSIAN ROYAL YACHT]. Von Stettin nach Ystadt den 11. bis 14 Juli 1859.

From Szczecin to Ystadt 1859 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
558

[QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901), association]. Military Commission for Alexander George Dickson.

The Court of St James, the Eighth day of June 1862 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
559

[RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY]. SEYMOUR, Wilfred. Pair of Autograph Letters Signed Describing the Grand Russian Fleet Review.

Krasnoye Selo, 1897 USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
560 SEUSS, Dr. (pseudonym of GEISEL, Theodore (1904-1991)

Inscribed Leaf with Printed Image of The Cat in the Hat.

N.p., n.d.. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 720.00
561 SINATRA, Frank (1915-1998)

Signed Menu for "Frank Sinatra in the Wedgwood Room" at the Waldorf-Astoria.

New York ca.1943. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
562 ROBINSON, Frederick A. (1860-1945)

South Africa Ephemera Archive of Civil Engineer and Gold Mining Industrializer Frederick A. Robinson.

South Africa 1891 and 1903. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 450.00
563

[STEAMSHIP NAVIGATION IN RUSSIA]. Two Primary Source Manuscript Diaries Of an Unnamed English Engineer Contracted by the Amoor Shipping Company Concerning Pioneering Navigation and Commerce of Early Steam Ships On the Amur and Shilka Rivers, 1861-1880.

Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Chita, Sretensk, Blagoveshchensk, TransBaikal villages 1861-1880. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
564 BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), BARKER, Lex (1919-1973), O'SULLIVAN, Maureen (1911-1998), BENNETT, Bruce (1906-2007), SHEFFIELD, Johnny (1931-2010), SCOTT, Gordon (1926-2007), and MILLER, Denny (1934-2014)

Group of 8 Tarzan-Related Signed, Framed Items, including: check signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzana 1937 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
565 WEISMULLER, Johnny (1904-1984)

Signed Collage.

N.p., n.d.. USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
566 VERNOUILLET, Augustin "Maurice" Marchant de (1829-1898)

Pair of Manuscript Lecture Notes.

Saint-Denis, 1842-1845. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
567 WATSON-WENTWORTH, Charles, Second Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782)

Signed Manuscript Military Commission.

England 1762 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
568 WELLESLEY, Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

Manuscript (in an unknown hand) Proclamation nominating Joseph Lobb, Esquire to the position of Deputy Lieutenant for the town (and county of the town) of Southhampton.

1846 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
569 WILLIAM IV, KING OF ENGLAND (1765-1837)

Official Royal Navy Document Signed.

England, 1827 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
570

[ALICE IN WONDERLAND]. Group of 12 Original Ink Drawings After John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland on Lace-Bordered Doilies.

Ca. late 19th century. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 300.00
571 GREIFFENHAGEN, Maurice (1862-1931)

Original Drawing for H. Rider Haggard's "Ayesha The Return of She".

England 1905 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
572 HURD, Peter (1904-1984)

Marauders of the Sea. Being a Compilation of Stories - both Historical and Fictional of various Exploits of the most Notorious Corsairs, Buccaneers, Pirates, Mutineers, Privateers, Maronners &c. Edited and with an Introduction by N. C. Wyeth.

New York 1935 USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
573 JOHNSON, Charles Howard, (1868-1896)

Water-Color Drawings by Charles Howard Johnson.

N.p., n.d. ca.1880's. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
574 KNIGHT, David (1923-1982)

Group of 10 Original Pen and Ink Drawings for Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho.

England ca.1950s. USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
575 SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)

Good Night, Sweet Mind. From You Can't Get There from Here by Ogden Nash

ca.1957. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
576 WAIN, Louis (1860-1939)

Signed Ink Drawing of a Cat.

England, n.d.. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,200.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    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”.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    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 .
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    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.
    High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
    and Machine Manuals
    December 24 to January 9
    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.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD