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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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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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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
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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
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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