Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Artwork from the George D. Lacy & Louis A. Irmo Collections, 1243, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 564 items in 23 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
402 CLEBURNE, General Patrick (1828-1864)

Autograph Promissory Note Signed

Helena, AR May 7th, 1860 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
403 DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889)

Autograph Letter Signed

2d Aug. 71 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 562.50
404 DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895)

Cabinet Card Portrait of Douglass

Rochester, NY [ca.1880s] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
405 DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895)

Signed Document

Washington, D. C. August 7, 1883 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 562.50
406 GODFREY, Edward Settle (1843-1932)

Autograph Letter Signed

Cookstown, N. J. 1916-06-01 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
407 GODFREY, Edward Settle (1843-1932)

Autograph Letter Signed

Washington [D. C.] [n.d., ca. 1910s] USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
408 GOEBBELS, Joseph (1897-1945)

Typed Letter Signed

Berlin 1936-11-03 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,250.00
409 GOERING, Hermann (1893-1946)

Signed Real Photo Postcard

[Munich] [ca. 1940] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
410 HIMMLER, Heinrich (1900-1945)

Printed Holiday Greeting Card, Signed by Himmler

[Germany] January, 1938 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,062.50
411 JOHNSTON, Joseph Eggleston (1807-1891)

Transportation Receipt Filled-Out and Signed 3 Times

Buffalo June 19, 1841 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 281.25
412 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) and BOOTH, John Wilkes (1838-1865), subjects]

Group of 21 Original X-Ray Films of Fragments of Lincoln's Skull and Part of Booth's Vertebrae

[Washington, D. C. and New Smyrna Beach, FL] [ca. 1981] USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
413 DILLER, Isaac R. (1854-1948)

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Signed Souvenir Print, "Lincoln Home 1860, Springfield, Illinois / Abraham Lincoln, Willie and "Tad" Inside the Fence 'Little Isaac Diller on the Sidewalk,' as Carl Sandberg Put it..."

[Springfield, IL] [ca. 20th century] USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,000.00
414

[MEDICAL EPHEMERA]. Engraved Pass for Practical Anatomy Course at the University of Pennsylvania, Signed by a Prominent Pennsylvania Doctor and Professor

[Pennsylvania] [ca. 1885] USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
415

[MEDICAL EPHEMERA]. Group of 35 Color or Black and White Slides Related to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

[N.p.] [ca. 20th century] USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 112.50
416

[MEDICAL EPHEMERA]. Group of 54 Color or Black and White Slides Related to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

[N.p.] [ca. 20th century] USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 312.50
417 [RIDDLE, Andrew Jackson (1828-1897), photographer]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [ANDERSONVILLE]. Albumen Cabinet Card

[Georgia] [ca. 1864] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 562.50
418 [BOOTH, Edwin (1833-1893), subject]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Signed Carte de Visite

Boston ca. 1860s USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 312.50
419 [BOOTH, John Wilkes (1838-1865), subject]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Carte de Visite, "J. Wilkes Booth, The murderer of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States"

[N.p.] [ca. 1860s] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
420 [BOOTH, John Wilkes (1838-1865), subject]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Carte de Visite of Booth

[New York] [ca. 1860s] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
421 [BURR, Dr. Richard, subject]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Stereoscopic View of Dr. Richard Burr Embalming a Corpse of a Dead Soldier in the Field

[New York] [ca. 1860s] USD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
422 [BRADY, Matthew (1822-1896), photographer]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [CORBETT, Sgt. Boston (1832-1894), subject]. Carte de Visite of Sgt. Boston Corbett, the Man who Killed John Wilkes Booth

Washington, D. C. [ca. 1860s] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
423 [SARONY, Napoleon (1821-1896), photographer]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889), subject]. Cabinet Card Portrait of an Elderly Jefferson Davis

[New York] [ca. 1896] USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 312.50
424 [GUTEKUNST, Frederick (1831-1917, photographer]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885), subject]. Ulysses S. Grant Signed Carte de Visite as Lt. General

[Philadelphia] [ca. 1866] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,250.00
425 [BRADY, Matthew (1822-1896), photographer]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Carte de Visite of a Standing President Lincoln, Sometimes Known as the "Solitary Pine" Pose

[Washington, D. C. and New York] [ca. 1864] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
426 [BRADY, Matthew (1822-1896)]

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Carte de Visite of Abraham Lincoln with His Son, Thomas ("Tad")

New-York [ca. 1860s] USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
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