Potter and Potter Auctions: Summer Fine Books & Manuscripts, 22825, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 353 | The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and universal Advertiser |
Philadelphia | 1767 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 375.00 | |
| 354 | The Pennsylvania Chronicle, &c. Extraordinary |
Philadelphia | 1768 | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 355 | The Saturday Globe |
Utica | 1898 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.25 | |
| 356 | Washington George | Columbian Centinel and Massachusetts Federalist |
Boston | 1800 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 357 | Webster Daniel | Florida Republican |
Jacksonville | 1851 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 358 | The Shanghai Times |
Shanghai | 1945 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 359 | The Shanghai Times |
Shanghai | 1945 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 360 | Boitel Sieur de Gaubertin Pierre | Le Tableau des Merveilles du Monde |
Paris | 1617 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 361 | Young Robert | Essay on the Powers and Mechanism of Nature |
London | 1788 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 362 | Euclid; Heliodorus of Larissa | La prospettiva di Euclide; La Prospettiua di Eliodoro Larisseo |
Firenze | 1573 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 363 | Pasteur Louis | Etudes sur la biere, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation |
Paris | 1876 | USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 364 | Baltz Lewis (1945-2014) | Works |
Gottingen | 2010 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 593.75 |
| 365 | Booth John Wilkes (1838-1865) | Carte de Visite of Booth |
New York | ca. 1860s | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 366 | Davidson Bruce (b. 1933) | Black & White |
Gottingen | 2012 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 562.50 |
| 367 | Erwitt Elliott (1928-2023) | XXL |
Berlin | 2012 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 368 | Eggleston William (b. 1939) | Chromes |
Gottingen | 2011 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 369 | Friedlander Lee (b. 1934) | Flowers and Trees |
New City, NY | 1981 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 370 | Graham Paul (b. 1976) | A Shimmer of Possibility |
Gottingen | 2007 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 371 | Plato | Les Oeuvres des Platon |
Paris | 1699 | USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 372 | Necker Jacques (1732-1804) | Du pouvoir executif dans les grands etats |
1792 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 373 | Precationes Aliquot Celebriores |
Paris | 1554 | USD 850.00 - 1,250.00 | USD 531.25 | |
| 374 | Clement XI | Clementis Undecimi Pontificis Maximi Orationes Consistoriales |
Rome | 1722 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 375 | Platina | Le vite di tutti i pontefici da S. Piero in Qua |
Venice | 1592 | USD 400.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 376 | Sabuda Robert; Montanaro Ann R. | 2 Books, including: 10th Anniversary Movable Book Society Commemorative Book |
New York | 2004; 1997 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 377 | La Bruyere Jean-Baptiste Martin Louis de | The Livre Rouge |
London | 1790 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
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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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July 16, 2026Forum, 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. £12,000-18,000Forum, 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]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, 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-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
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July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, 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