Potter and Potter Auctions: How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX, 1180, Chicago

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Auction Date
April 18, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Page Size: 554 items in 23 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963).

Three Items Related to Kennedy's Election and Inauguration, including: "See and Hear Senator John F. Kennedy Hartford Times Portico Prospect Street, Hartford, Monday, November 7, 1960, 12:45 Noon Public Invited" handbill.

Hartford 1960 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 420.00
27 KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963).

Press Photograph of Kennedy in Naval Ensign Uniform, and Final Edition of The Miami News About the Assassination of Kennedy Published the Same Day as the Tragedy. Black-and-white press portrait of Kennedy in naval uniform

ca.1940s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 72.00
28 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave trade. Senate, 37th Congress, 2nd Session.

Washington D.C. 1862 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 3,360.00
29 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

The New-York Times. Gettysburg Address.

New York 1863 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
30 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Cleveland Morning Leader.

Cleveland OH 1860 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
31 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) and DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889)].

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

New York 1861 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
32 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

New York 1865 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
33 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Daily Illinois State Journal.

Springfield IL 1858 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 330.00
34 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. BRADY, Mathew (1822-1896), photographer.

1860 presidential campaign ribbon with a photograph of a beardless Lincoln.

1860 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 600.00
35 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States.

New York 1860 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,200.00
36 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. BURLEIGH, William H., editor.

The Republican Pocket Pistol, a Collection of Facts, Opinions and Arguments for Freedom.

New York 1860 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
37 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)].

Sunday Morning Chronicle. Reinauguration of President Lincoln.

Washington D.C. 1865 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 2,400.00
37A [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. MESZAROS, Jeffrey Adam, artist.

Abraham Lincoln Original Collage.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,800.00
38 McKINLEY, William (1843-1901).

Signature ("William McKinley") cut from a document.

N.d. USD 350.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
39 [MCKINLEY, William (1843-1901), association]. INGALLS, Melville E. (1842-1914).

Archive of Nearly 120 Letters to Ingalls Related to Ingalls' Support of William McKinley's Presidential Run of 1896.

V.p. ca.1896. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 240.00
40 [PIERCE, Franklin (1804-1869)].

Keokuk Dispatch. Announcing the election of President Pierce.

Keokuk Iowa 1852 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
41 [POLK, James K. (1795-1849)].

N.H. Patriot Extra.

Concord 1844 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 300.00
42 [ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919)].

The San Francisco Call.

October 1912 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 72.00
43 [ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)].

"President Takes Oath for Fourth Term" in Illustrated Current News.

New Haven CT 1945 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
44 TAFT, William Howard (1857-1930).

Autograph Manuscript Signed,

New Haven 1920 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,140.00
45 TYLER, John (1790-1862).

Autograph note signed ("J Tyler") declining a New Year's dinner invitation from President James Madison, 1 January 1817.

1817 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 600.00
46 [WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)].

Autograph document signed, entirely in the hand of Charles Thomson Secretary of the Continental Congress, including the signature of "John Hancock", appointing George Washington as General and Commander in Chief of the army of the United Colonies,

Philadelphia 1775 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 88,800.00
47 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799).

Manuscript document in a secretarial hand, signed ("G. Washington"), as the first President of the United States,

Philadelphia 1796 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 13,200.00
48 [WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)].

The Daily Advertiser. Inauguration of President George Washington.

New York 1789 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 420.00
49 [WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)].

Third Congress of the United States: as the first session...on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. An Act allowing Lieutenant Colonel Tousard an Equivalent for his Pension for Life.

Philadelphia 1794 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
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    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
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    Auction May 27th
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    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
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    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
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    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
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    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
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    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
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