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

Auction Details

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
201		Special Rag Paper Edition of The New York Times, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 25,955.	New York	1929	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 60.00
202	SPRAGUE, Isaac W. (1841-1887).	Powers of Endurance! By Barnum's Living Skeleton!	Circa	1870s.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 240.00
203		A pair of items, including: a cdv of a young Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (1868-1904), better known as "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy".	Estonia	n.d. ca.1880s.	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 510.00
204		San Joaquin Valley Argus. The Advocate of the People's Rights.	Merced	1876	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 150.00
205		Group of Two Newspapers with Full-Column Illustrated Ads for Circuses, including: Lynchburg Daily News. Vol. XXIV, No. 78	Lynchburg, VA	1877	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 150.00
206		Autograph manuscript tavern license or recognition granted to Jabez Howland Inholder, John Cary Carpentar, and Jeremiah Osborn, Bristoll County, New England, 13 April 1697.	Bristoll County, New England	1697	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,920.00
207	COLT, Samuel (1814-1862).	Autograph letter signed from Samuel and Elisha Colt (entirely in the latter's hand and signed with both names by Elisha) to the New York shipping firm Abraham Bell & Son, Hartford, 29 May 1849.	Hartford	1849	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 270.00
208		Group of Two Newspapers with Comical Cartoons, including: Downing Gazette, Vol. I, No. 23	Portland ME	1831	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 96.00
209	FULLER, John E. and PALMER, Aaron.	Fuller's Computing Telegraph, the Great Master Key Rule, by Which All Problems Are Instantly Solved.	New York	1852	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 270.00
210		Manuscript Account Ledger for the Vernon School Society in Tolland County, Connecticut.	Vernon CT	1809-1848.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
211		National Intelligencer. President Monroe makes public the sale of Creek Indians land in the Alabama Territory after an Act he passed on 3 March 1815.	Washington	1817	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
212		Nineteenth-Century Manuscript New York Police Station Arrest Log.	Long Island, New York	1878-1881	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 1,140.00
213	[CROCKETT, Davy (1786-1836)].	Columbian Centinel. Contains false information that Crockett survived the Alamo.	Boston	1836	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
214	[CROCKETT, Davy (1786-1836)].	"Go Ahead!" Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, and Life in the Backwoods. Calculated for All the States in the Union. 1835	Nashville	1834	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 900.00
215	[CROCKETT, Davy (1786-1836)].	Boston Weekly Messenger.	Boston	1836	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
216		Manuscript Agreement Between George Bacon of New York and an Unidentified Entity for Ownership and Responsibilities for a Copper Mine in Cuba.		1846	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 96.00
217		The Salem Gazette. Old Continental Money.	Salem	1790	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
218	PAINE, Thomas (1737-1809), editor.	The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum for August 1775.	Philadelphia	1775	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 660.00
219	DONGAN, Thomas (1634-1715).	Autograph document signed ("Tho. Dongan"), 1 May 1689.		1689	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,200.00
220		An original woodblock printing plate for the illustration depicting either Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) in "A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson".	Boston	1770	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 6,600.00
221		Niles' National Register. Invention of the daguerreotype.	Baltimore	1839	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 180.00
222	[EARP, Wyatt (1848-1929), association]. LEWIS, Alfred Henry (1855-1914).	The Sunset Trail.	New York	1906	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 300.00
223	EDISON, Thomas (1847-1931).	Patent for Edison's Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219628	Washington D.C.	1879	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,200.00
224	[EDISON, Thomas (1847-1931)].	Autograph manuscript titled ("An hour among the unseen spirits"), circa 1878.	circa	1878	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
225	[EDISON, Thomas Alva (1847-1931), association]. CLARKE, Charles Lorenzo (1853-1941).	Archive for the Report, "Economy Test of the Edison Electric Light".	Menlo Park N. J., Schenectady, N. Y.	1881-1932.	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	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

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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

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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

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

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C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

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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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