Potter and Potter Auctions: Glimpses: Vintage, Fine, and Vernacular Photography, 23627, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
Page Size: 378 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Finkelstein Nat (1933-2009)

Edie Sedgwick with Scarf

1965, printed 21st century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
127 Abramovic Marina

Image of Happiness

1998 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
128

3 Books, including: John Waters Portrait Photographs

1990s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
129 Greer Fergus

Leigh Bowery

1991 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
130 Dali Salvador

Collection of Salvador Dali Press Photographs

1974–1980s USD 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
131 Henle Fritz; Plowden David

15 Books, including: Fritz Henle

NYC 1970s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
132 Callahan Harry; Beaver Bert; Lebowitz Richard; Siskind Aaron

3 Books, including: Photographs; The Fifth Annual Portfolio of the Photographic Education Society; The Sixth Annual Portfolio

Providence 1970-72 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
133 Weston Edward

My Camera on Point Lobos

Yosemite National Park; Boston 1950 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
134 Spencer Jack

Pontabla, New Orleans 2001

2001 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
135 Brenner Jules

Archive of original photographs and negatives

Circa 1950s–1960s USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
136 Lucas Leroy; Salzmann Laurence; Stewart Milo

5 Books, including: The Lower East Side; Erie Canal; Growing Up Black; Neighbors on the Block; Main Street

New York 1971 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
137

Group of Vernacular Photographs of Television Screens

1960s–1990s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
138

Group of 94 Elvis Presley Television Snapshot Photographs

Circa 1970s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
139

A Hard Day’s Night — Group of Off-Air Television Photographs

1964 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
140

Robin Leach Private Estate Polaroid Archive

Circa 1980s-1990s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
141

World Artist Management (WAM) Archive of International Performance Press Photographs

Ontario, California circa 1960s USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
142

Group of Sixteen Polaroid Photographs Documenting the O.J. Simpson Trial Television Coverage

1994–95 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
143

Speech Captures and Johnson Placing Wreath At Casket of John F. Kennedy in the Rotunda

1960s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
144

Official White House photograph of Nancy Reagan and Mr. T

Washington 1983 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
145

Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Joe Jackson Hand-Tinted Photograph

circa 1950 USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
146

Over 60 publicity photographs of performers

Chicago mid-20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
147

Snapshot Photograph of Group of Little People

1930s USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
148

Five Possible Tarzan Snapshots with Cheetah & Trainer

1930s–40s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
149

Elephant Dental Surgery at the New York Hippodrome

circa 1930s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
150 Dino Michael

King Kong Photograph

Paris 1978 USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • 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