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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 531 | Kelley Kevin | The Home Planet |
Reading; Moscow | 1988 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 532 | Dickens Charles (1812-1870) | Our Mutual Friend |
London | 1865 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 533 | Dryden John; Virgil | The Works of Virgil |
London | 1721 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 534 | Dryden John; Maimbourg Louis | The History of the League |
London | 1684 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 535 | Dulac Edmund (1882-1953) | A Fairy Garland Being Fairy Tales from the Old French |
London | [1928] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 536 | Earhart Amelia (1897-1944) | The Fun of It |
New York | 1932 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 537 | Pike Nicolas | A New and Complete System of Arithmetic |
Worcester | 1797 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 538 | Bude Guillaume (1467-1540) | Commentarii linguae Graaecae |
Paris | 1548 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 539 | Einstein Albert (1879-1955) | Relativity the Special & the General Theory; The Meaning of Relativity |
Toronto; Princeton | [n. d. ca. 1920]; 1945 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 540 | Thomas Edward (1878-1917) | The Woodland Life |
London | 1897 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 541 | Poe Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Manet Edouard (1832-1883) | Le Corbeau |
Norwalk, CT | [1995] | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 112.50 |
| 542 | 18 Books, including: The Perfect Yankee |
Norwalk, CT | [ca. 20th - 21st centuries] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 312.50 | |
| 543 | Tupper Martin Farquhar; Caulfeild S.F.A.; Larden Walter; Okada Rokuo; Palmer Charles; Spurgeon C.H.; Cats Jacob; Farlie Robert | 8 Books, including: A Book of Sundials |
Edinburgh; New York; London; Oxford; Tokyo | 1917; 1846; 1908; 1958; 1748; 1889; 1860 | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 544 | Fillmore Millard (1800-1874) | Signed Page |
1871 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 281.25 | |
| 545 | Sandburg Carl (1878-1967) | Carl Sandburg's Lincoln |
Norwalk, CT | [1995] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 546 | Newman Paul; Hotchner A. E.; Bacall Lauren | Shameless Exploitation; By Myself and Then Some |
Norwalk, CT | 2003; 2005 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 547 | Warren Robert Penn (1905-1989) | New and Selected Poems 1923-1985 |
Franklin Center, PA | 1985 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 |
| 548 | 32 Volumes |
Norwalk, CT | [ca. 20th - 21st centuries] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 531.25 | |
| 549 | 22 Volumes |
Franklin Center, PA | [ca. 20th - 21st centuries] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 550 | Cervantes Miguel | The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha |
London | 1892 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 468.75 |
| 551 | Cervantes Miguel | The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha |
Exeter | 1828 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 552 | 13 Illustrated Books |
London | ca. 2000s-2010s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 593.75 | |
| 553 | Shakespeare William; Knight Charles | The Works of Shakspere; A Biography of William Shakspere |
New York | ca. 1870s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 554 | Tennyson Alfred Lord | Works |
London | 1891-1892 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 156.25 |
| 555 | Wilde Oscar | Sebastian Melmoth |
London | 1904 | USD 200.00 - 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