Potter and Potter Auctions: Summer Fine Books & Manuscripts, 22825, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 09, 2026 - July 09, 2026
Page Size: 699 items in 28 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
581 Taylor Edward Samuel

The History of Playing Cards

London 1865 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 750.00
582

Group of Nearly 27 Modern Homoerotic Photo Books

Germany 21st century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,375.00
583 Emory Michael

The Gay Picture Book

Chicago 1978 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
584 Heidemann Thomas; Massengill; Leddick David; Castro Rick; Hanson Dian

Group of 6 Assorted Modern Photography Books

20th - 21st centuries USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 468.75
585 Hanson Dian 1951-

The Big Penis Book

Koln 2008 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
587 Gibson Charles Dana (1867-1944)

The Gibson Book

New York 1907 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
588 Guthrie Woody (1912-1967)

American Folksong

New York 1947 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 562.50
589 Haley Alex (1921-1992)

7 Books, including: Archive of 7 Items Related to Haley's Various Television Endeavors

ca. 1970s-1980s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
590 Haley Alex (1921-1992)

Roots

Garden City 1976 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
591 Hasford Gustav (1947-1993)

4 Books, including: The Phantom Blooper

New York; Helsinki 1987; 1990 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
592 Hemingway Ernest (1899-1961)

Across the River and Into the Trees

New York 1950 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 156.25
593

30 Books, including: U. S. National Museum Bulletin

ca. 19th - 20th centuries USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
594 Petau Denis (1583-1652)

Rationarium Temporum

Leiden 1745 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
595 Hitler Adolf (1889-1945)

Mein Kampf

Boston 1943 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
596 Thomas Joesph B.; Brown Paul

Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages; Aintree Grand Nationals - Past and Present

New York 1928; 1930 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
597 Bailey N.; Merle Gibbons; Harland Marion; Morse Sidney; St. Jean Guillaume

9 Books, including: Dictionarium Domesticum

London; Worcester; St. Louis; Connecticut; New York; Philadelphia 1736-1942 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 343.75
598 Forester Frank; Van Urk J. Blan

The Warwick Woodlands; My Shooting Box; The Quorndon Hounds; The Deerstalkers; The Story of American Foxhunting

New York 1930; 1940 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
599 Danielson Richard E.; Spiller Burton L.; Barber Joel D.; Shepperd Tad; Hood Thomas; Connett Eugene V.; Alwood Thomas; Buckingham Nash; Gee Ernest R.; Streett William; Smith Harry; Cox Charles; Markland

15 Books, including: Martha Doyle

New York ca. 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
600 Lanier Charles D. (1868-1945)

We Go Fox-Hunting Abroad; More Fox-Hunting in England

1924, 1927 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
601 Masefield John; Smith Harry; Higginson; Macdougall Arthur; Buchanan-Jardine John

5 Books, including: Right Royal

ca. 20th century USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
602 Wilson Charles (1836-1905)

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt

New York 1881-1883 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 437.50
603 Audubon John James (1785-1851)

The John James Audubon Portfolio

France 2004 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
604 Daniel Noel

The Circus: 1870–1950

Koln 2008 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 187.50
605 Goodrich Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)

Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom

New York 1865 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
606 Burke Billie (1884-1970)

With a Feather on My Nose

New York 1949 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • 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