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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 556 | Carlyle Thomas | Sartor Resartus |
London | 1838 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 557 | Milton John; Dryden John; Pope Alexander; Burns Robert; Byron Lord | 6 Sets, including: Poetical Works of John Milton |
1779; 1866; 1807; 1896; 1842 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 406.25 | |
| 558 | Shakespeare William; Barrie J. M.; Brantome; Boswell James; Eliot George | 8 Sets, including: Shakespeare |
1824; 1872; 1835; 1889 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 559 | 3 Reference Titles, including: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford | ca. 2000s-2020s | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 75.00 | |
| 560 | Dryden John; Moliere; Pater Walter; Melville Herman; Scott Walter; Eliot George; Smith; Goldsmith Oliver; Browning Robert; Scott Robert Falcon; White Gilbert; Arnold Thomas; Austen Jane; Keats John | 80 Assorted Leather-Bound Volumes |
N/A | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 812.50 | |
| 561 | Roth Philip | The Human Stain |
Franklin Center, PA | 2000 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 |
| 562 | Brinkley Francis | Oriental Series: Japan / China It's Art and Literature |
Boston | 1901-1902 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 |
| 563 | Proper Lessons; The Book of Common Prayer |
London | 1842, 1846 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 112.50 | |
| 564 | Palgrave Francis; Wordsworth William; Hugo Victor | 3 Books, including: The Golden Treasury |
1946; 1923 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 | |
| 565 | Bancroft George | History of the United States |
Boston | 1856 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 566 | Ilias Ambrosiana |
1953 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 567 | Chaucer Geoffrey | The Works of Chaucer |
London | 2000 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 568 | Carroll Lewis | Alice's Adventures Under Ground; The Original Alice |
London | 2008 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 569 | Group of 28 Books by the Folio Society |
London | ca. 2000s-2010s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,000.00 | |
| 570 | Chandler David 1934-2004 | The Campaigns of Napoleon |
London | 2002 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 571 | The New Naturalist Library Facsimile Set |
London | ca. 2008 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 | |
| 572 | Potter Beatrix 1866-1943 | The Tales of Beatrix Potter |
London | 2002 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 573 | Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr 1918-2008 | The Gulag Archipelago |
London | 2005 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 574 | Garcia Marquez Gabriel 1927-2014 | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
London | 2006 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 575 | Gray Thomas 1716-1771 | Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray |
London | 1874 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 576 | The Lorsch Gospels |
New York | 1967 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 577 | Robinson James I | Jackson & Lee Legends in Gray |
Nashville, TN | 1995 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 62.50 |
| 578 | Bingley William; Steele Robert; Harley Timothy; Inwards Richard; Dyer T.F. Thiselton; Folkard Richard; Clarence Meyer | 9 Books, including: Useful Knowledge or A Familiar Account of the Various Productions of Nature |
London; Glenwood | 1821; 1893; 1885; 1898; 1892; 1993 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 531.25 |
| 579 | Frost Robert 1874-1963 | North of Boston |
New York | 1927 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 580 | Macquoid Percy 1852-1925 | A History of English Furniture |
1906-1923 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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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