Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 22200, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernest Hemingway | In Our Time |
New York | 1925 | USD 12,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 2 | Peter Paul Rubens | La Galerie du Palais du Luxembourg Peinte par Rubens |
Paris | 1710 | USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
| 3 | John Hancock | The Twelve United Colonies by their Delegates in Congress to the Inhabitants of Great Britain |
London | 1775 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,560.00 |
| 4 | Samuel A. Cartwright | The Negro: What I His Ethnological Status? |
Cincinnati | 1867 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 5 | Charles Carroll | American League Promoted for the Purification, Elevation, and Protection of American Civilization |
St. Louis, MO | 1904 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 6 | Annie Fellows Johnston | The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor |
Boston | 1906 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 7 | Fly-Fishing Books |
London | ca. 1990s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 240.00 | |
| 8 | Jonathan Couch | A History of the Fishes of the British Islands |
London | 1864-1865 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 9 | Fly-Fishing Titles |
ca. 20th - 21st centuries | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 240.00 | ||
| 10 | Ralph Bandini; Charles Frederick Holder | Veiled Horizons Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea / The Game Fishes of the World |
New York; London | 1939; 1913 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 11 | Susan B. Anthony | Clipped Signature |
ND | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 330.00 | |
| 12 | Nathaniel Wanley | The Wonders of the Little World; or a General History of Man |
London | 1806 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 13 | Sammelband of Four 17th Century Titles |
London | 1646-1678 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 14 | St Thomas Aquinas | Summa Theologica |
New York | 1947-1948 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 15 | A. J. Downing | Trio of Leather-Bound Titles on Architecture and Landscape Design |
ca. 1842-1862 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 16 | Elizabeth Grosz; Boris Groys; Jackie Kay | Fresh Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture |
London/Paris | 2000 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Michael Collins | NASA Photograph of Apollo 11 Prime Crew |
1969 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 18 | Harrison H. Schmidt; John W. Young; Charles M. Duke, Jr.; Walter Cunningham; Walter Schirra; Donald "Deke" Slayton; Alan Bean | Photographs or Other Items Signed by Astronauts |
ca. 1960s-1980s | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 19 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
Boston | 1986 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 20 | Enzo Ferrari | 1949 Victoires-Affermazioni-Victories |
Michigan | 1969 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 21 | Dan Welch; David Klein | Archive of Engineering Files, Abstracts, Catalogs, and Papers |
Pasadena, CA | ca. 1960s-1980s | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 570.00 |
| 22 | Djuna Barnes | Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers |
Paris | 1925 | USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,160.00 |
| 23 | Thomas Berger | Little Big Man |
New York | 1964 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 24 | Brian Kehew; Kevin Ryan | Recording the Beatles |
Houston | 2006 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 25 | Joe Biden | Promise Me, Dad. A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose |
New York | 2017 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 210.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
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