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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 378 | Millar John (1735-1801) | Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society |
London | 1773 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 379 | Mayne Zachary (1631-1694) | Two Dissertations Concerning Sense, and the Imagination |
London | 1728 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 380 | Wagner Richard (1813-1883); Rackham Arthur (1867-1939) | Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods |
London; New York | 1911 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 687.50 |
| 381 | Rackham Arthur (1867-1939) | Some British Ballads |
London | ca. 1919 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 562.50 |
| 382 | Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953); Wyeth N. C. | The Yearling |
New York | 1939 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 383 | Glanvill Joseph | Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion |
London | 1676 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 384 | Blount Charles | The Two First Books of Philostratus Concerning the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus |
London | 1680 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 385 | Berkeley George | Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher |
London | 1732 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 386 | Horneck Anthony | The Crucified Jesus |
London | 1686 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 387 | Polycarp Saint; Ignatius | Polycarpi et Ignatii Epistolae |
Oxford; London | 1643; 1647 | USD 350.00 - 450.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 388 | Clement I; Justin Martyr | Opera Quae ad Hunc Usque Diem Extare Comperta Sunt; Beati Ivstini Philosophi & martyris opera omnia |
Paris | 1544; 1554 | USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 | USD 875.00 |
| 389 | Williams David | Lectures on the Universal Principles and Duties of Religion and Morality |
London | 1779 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | Not Sold |
| 390 | Popple William | A Discourse of Humane Reason: With Relation to Matters of Religion |
London | 1690 | USD 850.00 - 1,250.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 391 | 8 Books, including: History of the Battle of Breed's Hill |
1819-1875 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 11,875.00 | ||
| 392 | Rousseau Jean-Jacques | Du Contrat Social; ou Principes du Droit Politique |
Amsterdam | 1762 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 393 | Saint Gregory (ca. 329-390); Billy Jacques de (1602-1679) | Sancti Patris Nostri Gregorii Nazianzeni Theologi Opera |
Paris | 1630 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 394 | Saint Theodoret of Cyrus (393-458) | Opera Omnia in Quatuor Tomos Distributa |
Paris | 1642-1684 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 395 | Johnson W Fletcher (1857-1931) | The Red Record of the Sioux. Life of Sitting Bull |
1891 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 396 | Salinger J D (1919-2010) | The Catcher in the Rye |
Boston | 1951 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 397 | Sandys George (1578-1644) | Ovids Metamorphisis Englished, Mythologiz'd... An Essay to the Translation of Virgil's Aeneis |
London | 1640 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 812.50 |
| 398 | Sebastian y Latre Tomas (d. 1792) | Relacion individual, y veridica del sucesso acontecido en la ciudad de Zaragoza, el dia 6. de Abril de 1766 |
Zaragoza | 1766 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 399 | Ray John (1627-1705) | Philosophical Letters Between the late Learned Mr. Ray And several of his Ingenious Correspondents |
London | 1718 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 400 | Whalley Peter; Guthrie William; Waterland Daniel; Frey de Neuville Charles | 4 Books, including: An Enquiry into the Learning of Shakespeare |
London | 1730-1748 | USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 401 | Kiernan Caitlin R (1964-) | 5 Books, including: In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers |
Burton | 2002-2017 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 402 | Sextus Empiricus | Opera quae extant |
Geneva | 1621 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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