Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 22200, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 14, 2026 - May 14, 2026
Page Size: 497 items in 20 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Rinko Kawauchi

Little More

Tokyo 2002 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
152 Ryuji Miyamoto

Architectural Apocalypse

Tokyo 1988 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
153 Tadao Nakatani

World of Tatsum Hijikata, the Originator of Butoh...

Tokyo 2003 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
154 Ikko Narahara

Light and Waves

Tokyo 1980 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
155 Akiko Otake

NY 1980

Tokyo 2012 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
156 Shomei Tomatsu

Group of 6 Japanese Photography Books by Tomatsu

Japan ca. 20th century USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
157 Michio Yamauchi

Holiday Reflection

Tokyo 2005 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
158 Michio Yamauchi

Stadt Photographs

Yokohama 1992 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
159

Group of 7 Photo-Illustrated First Edition Books

V.p. 19th - 21st centuries USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 96.00
160 Wayne Francis Woodard

Lazy Afternoon

N.p. ca. 1940 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
161 Frank Brangwyn

Pair of Signed, Medium-Sized Architectural Etchings

England ca. 1900s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
162 Frank Brangwyn

Trio of Signed, Large Architectural Etchings

England ca. 1900s-1920s USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
163 George Leonard Carlson

Group of 8 Panels of Pen, Pencil and Ink Original Artwork for a Puzzle/Activity Book (or Books) for Children

N.p. ca. mid-20th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 480.00
164 Hedley Fitton

Pair of Signed Architectural Etchings

England ca. 1900s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
165

Group of 9 Hand-Colored Plates of Fish from “Allgemeine Naturgeschicte, VI, Zoologie.”

Stuttgart ca. 1830s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 240.00
166 Luigi Kasimir; Rudolf Viet

Pair of Signed Color Etchings, including: KASIMIR, Luigi. Persenbeug at Donau.

Austria; Germany ca. early 20th century USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
167 Peter Miller

A L’Ombre de Jomyoui

1994 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
168 Eadweard Muybridge

Trio of Collotype Plates from “Animal Locomotion.”

1887 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,560.00
169 Jules De Bruycker; Max Klinger

Pair of Large Unsigned Etchings

Ca. 20th century; ca. 1880s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
170 Barbara Pihos

North Country

ca. late 20th – early 21st centuries USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
171 Kaoru Saito

The Tale of Genji: Akashi / “What a delightful fishing boat.”

Japan ca. 1980s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 300.00
172 Tavik Frantisek Simon

Nocturne in Quimper

France ca. 1922 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 120.00
173 Edmund Joseph Sullivan

Pair of Original Ink Drawings

England ca. 1890s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 360.00
174 Yoshijiro Urusibara; Frank Brangwyn

Devil’s Bridge, St. Gothard Pass

ca. 1930 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
175 Yoshijiro Urusibara; Frank Brangwyn

Colored Woodblock Print Signed by Urusibara, After Brangwyn

London 1924 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’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.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000