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
634 Matisse Henri (1869-1954)

Jazz

New York [1983] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
635 Pomet Pierre (1658-1699)

A Compleat History of Druggs

London 1725 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 937.50
636 Bernard Claude (1813-1878)

A Text Book of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy

London 1878 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 562.50
637 Michener James A.

The Source

Norwalk, CT [1989] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
638 Milne A A (1882-1956)

Winnie-The-Pooh

London [1926] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
639 Snow Eliza R.; Stenhouse T B H Mrs.

Poems, Religious, Historical, and Political; "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism

Liverpool; Hartford, CT 1856; 1874 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
640 De Diennes Andre (1913-1985)

Marilyn

Koln 2002 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
641 Carroll Lewis (1832-1898); Moser Barry (b. 1940)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Berkeley [1982] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
642 Kendall Edward Augustus (1776-1842)

Travels in the Northern Parts of the United States in the Years of 1807 and 1808

New-York 1809 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 593.75
643 Ridge John R. (1827-1867)

Poems

San Francisco 1868 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 687.50
644 Prindle Cyrus (1800-1885)

Memoir of the Rev. Daniel Meeker Chandler

Middlebury 1842 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
645 Dobie J Frank; Lea Tom; Wharton Clarence

Apache Gold & Yaqui Silver; Satanta. The Great Chief of the Kiowas and His People

Boston; Dallas 1950; [1935] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 343.75
646 Nehrling Henry (1853-1929)

Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty

Milwaukee 1893-1896 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
647 Drewry William Sidney (1870-1948)

The Southampton Insurrection

Washington 1900 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
648

The New-Yorker Weekly

New York 1861 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
649

The San Francisco Call

San Francisco 1898 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
650 Quiller-Couch Arthur (1863-1944); Nielsen Kay (1886-1957)

In Powder and Crinoline

London [1913] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
651 Morellius Andreas; Spanhemii Ezechielis

Specimen Universae Rei Nummariae Antiquae; Ezechielis Spanhemii ad Eximium Virum

Leipzig 1695 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
652 De Givry Grillot (1874-1929)

Witchcraft Magic & Alchemy

London [1931] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
653 Field Eugene (1850-1895); Parrish Maxfield (1870-1966)

Poems of Childhood

New York 1904 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
654 Parrish Maxfield (1870-1966); Grahame Kenneth

4 Items, including: Dream Days

[1902]; 1919 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
655 Bernhard Ruth; Sturges Jock

The Eternal Body; New Work 1996-2000

Carmel; Zurich 1986; [2000] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
656 Carbuff J

Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago

Chicago 1868 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
657 Davidson Bruce (b. 1933)

Outside Inside

Gottingen 2009 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
658 Peress Gilles (b. 1946)

Farewell to Bosnia

New York [1994] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
  • 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