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
659 Josephson Kenneth (b. 1932)

Selected Photographs

Berlin 2013 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
660 Lido Serge

Les Ballets Americains

Paris ca. 1948 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 62.50
661 Witkin Joel-Peter; Blake William

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Brewster, MA 2004 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
662

Stereoscopic View of Dr. Richard Burr Embalming a Corpse of a Dead Soldier in the Field

New York ca. 1860s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
663 Fusco Paul

RFK Funeral Train

New York 2000 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
664 Brandt Bill; Szarkowski John

3 Books, including: The English at Home

London; Minneapolis 1936; 1956; ca. 1954 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
665

Art Work of Central Illinois Cities

Chicago 1922 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
666 Fowler O.S.; Fowler L.N.; Gall

3 Books, including: The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology

New York; Philadelphia 1859; 1869; 1835 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
667

Group of Nearly 30 Volumes About Modern Pop Culture

ca. 20th - 21st centuries USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
668 Johnson Paul

Group of 5 Small-Sized Handmade and Hand-Painted Artistic Pop-Up Books

England ca. 1980s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 562.50
669 Johnson Paul

Group of 4 Medium-Sized Handmade and Hand-Painted Artistic Pop-Up Books

England ca. 1980s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 343.75
670 Johnson Paul

Pair of Large-Sized Handmade and Hand-Painted Artistic Pop-Up Books

England ca. 1980s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
671 Johnson Paul

Pair of Large-Sized Handmade and Hand-Painted Artistic Pop-Up Books

England ca. 1980s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
672 Pope Alexander

The Dunciad, Variorum

London 1729 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
673 Ford Gerald R.

The Thirty-eighth President. Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office as President of the United States

Reno, NV 2001 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
674 Nicolay John G.; Hay John

Abraham Lincoln: A History

New York 1914 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 375.00
675

Here Type Can Serve You

Chicago [1935] USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 75.00
676 Cabell James Branch (1879-1958)

There Were Two Pirates

New York 1946 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
677 Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953)

South Moon Under

New York 1933 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
678 Robinson W. Heath (1872-1944)

Twelfth Night or What You Will; A Song of the English

London 1908-1909 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
679 Kennan George (1904-2005)

Siberia and the Exile System

New York 1891 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
680 Mather Cotton; Mather Increase

The Wonders of the Invisible World

London 1862 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 500.00
681 Salinger J. D. (1919-2010)

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
682 Schofield John (1831-1906)

Signed Card

N/A USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
683 Scott Walter (1771-1832)

3 Books, including: The Fortunes of Nigel

Edinburgh 1822, 1836 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 343.75
  • 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