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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 607 | Eickemeyer Carl | Over the Great Navajo Trail |
New York | 1900 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 609 | Araki Nobuyoshi (1940-) | 4 Books, including: SNIPER-SHOT |
Tokyo | 1978-1981 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 375.00 |
| 610 | Shinoyama Kishin (1940-2024) | Olele Olala; Accidents 1: Water Fruit |
Tokyo | 1971, 1991 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 611 | Tsuchida Hiromi (1939-) | Hiroshima 1945-1979 |
Tokyo | 1979 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 612 | 3 Books, including: Recit Des Voyages et des Decouvertes du R. Pere Jacques Marquette |
Albany | 1855 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 | |
| 613 | Joyce James | Pomes Penyeach; Two Tales of Shem and Shaun; Haveth Childers Everywhere |
1927-1931 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 | |
| 614 | Manchester William (1922-2004) | The Death of a President |
New York | 1967 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 218.75 |
| 616 | Chaucer Geoffrey; Kent Rockwell | The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer |
New York | 1930 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 156.25 |
| 617 | Lafayette Marquis Marie-Joseph Paul | Memoirs of General La Fayette |
Hartford | 1825 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 593.75 |
| 618 | Lawrence T. E. (1888-1935) | Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph |
Garden City | 1935 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 619 | Shaffer Ellen (1904-1994) | Fray Maturino Gilberti & His Books |
Los Angeles | 1963 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 620 | De Acosta Mercedes (1892-1968) | Streets & Shadows |
New York | 1922 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 621 | Cain James (1892-1977); Fowles John (1926-2005); Salinger J.D. (1919-2010); Maugham W. Somerset (1874-1965); Melville Herman (1819-1891); Kent Rockwell | 7 Books, including: Serenade |
New York; London; Boston | 1939; 1977; 1951; 1919; 1941; 1930 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 112.50 |
| 622 | 40 Books, including: Imaginary Conversations |
ca. 19th - 20th centuries | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 156.25 | ||
| 623 | Wilson Rufus Rockwell (1865-1949) | Lincoln Among His Friends; Intimate Memories of Lincoln |
1942; 1945 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 218.75 | |
| 624 | Lucretius Carus Titus (d. 55 B. C.) | De Rerum Natura Libri Sex |
Paris | 1565 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 625 | Brown Derren (1971-) | Pure Effect |
Humble | 2000 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 626 | Moll Hermann | A New and Exact Map of Spain & Portugal |
London | ca. 1730 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 627 | Moll Hermann | Illustrations of the Traditional Way of Life of the Sami People |
London | ca. 1730 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 628 | Jansson Jan | Insularum Moluccarum Nova Descriptio |
Amsterdam | c. 1640 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 156.25 |
| 629 | Ortelius Abraham | Veronae Urbis Territorium |
Antwerp | ca. 1688 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 630 | De L'Isle Gulliaume (1675-1726) | L'Amerique Meridionale |
Paris | 1708 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 631 | Jones Owen (1809-1874) | 16 Books, including: Group of 16 Mounted Chromolithographic Plates of Various Designs |
England | ca. 1860s-1870s | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 632 | Moore Clarence B. (1852-1936) | Tickled to Death |
1892 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 62.50 | |
| 633 | Laughton L G Carr; Moore Alan | Old Ship Figure-Heads & Sterns; Sailing Ships of War |
London | 1925-1926 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 100.00 |
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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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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