Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts , 1186, Chicago

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Auction Date
July 25, 2024 - July 25, 2024
Page Size: 500 items in 20 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226

A Huge Group of Nearly 220 Limited Editions Club Books.

New York 1951-1972 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,800.00
227 STEINBECK, John BENTON, Thomas Hart, illustrator.

The Grapes of Wrath. With Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton.

New York 1940 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
228 FROST, Robert

The Complete Poems of Robert Frost.

New York 1950 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 840.00
229 DUMAS, Alexandre WARD, Lynd, illustrator.

The Count of Monte Cristo. 8vos

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 570.00
230 SANDBURG, Carl

Abraham Lincoln The War Years.

New York 1939 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 570.00
231 MILLER, Frances Trevelyan

Lindbergh. His Story in Pictures.

New York 1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 840.00
232 THOMSON, Hunter S. and GAIMAN, Neil

Trio of Signed First Editions..

V.p. 1998-2003 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 540.00
233 OAKES, William

Scenery of The White Mountains: With Sixteen Plates from the Drawings of Isaac Sprague.

Boston 1848 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
234 LOSA, Francisco.

Vita Condotta dal servo di Dio Gregorio Lopez nella Nuova Spagna.

Rome 1740 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
235 HORNER, Thomas.

A Brief Account of The Colosseum in the Regent's Park London.

London 1829 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
236 VON PALTZ, Joseph a. k. a. STAUPITZ Johann Von LUTHER, Martin, association.

Coelifodina Absconditos. Scripurae Thesauros Pandens . . .

Leipzig 1511-10 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,040.00
238 MANTLE, Mickey and PEPE, Phil

My Favorite Summer 1956.

New York 1991 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 570.00
239 MANTLE, Mickey and GLUCK, Herb.

The Mick.

New York 1985 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
240 MAO ZEDONG

Signed Photograph of Mao with Rare Vintage Chinese Communist Propaganda Album

Russian ca.1949 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 18,000.00
241 BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Frans, printers.

Cairus Quae Olim Babylon Aegypti Maxima Urbs.

Cologne ca.1572-1617 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 360.00
242 CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham

Carte de la Nouvelle France ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississippi ...

Paris ca.1719-1720 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
243 DE JODE, Gerard, cartographer.

Germaniae Totius Nostrae Europae Celeberrimae Regionis Descripto Singularis.

Antwerp 1578 or 1593 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
244 DISTURNELL, John

The Traveller's Guide Through the State of New-Work Canada...

New-York 1836 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
245 FRENCH, Andrew.

French's Map of Oil Lands Leases &C. on Pithole Creek Muskrarun Stewart's Run & Their Tributaries ..

Philadelphia 1865 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
246 MERCATOR, Gerardus

Barbaria. .

Ca. 1630s USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
247 MASTERS, Edgar Lee

Spoon River Anthology.

New York 1915 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 600.00
248 FINE, Oronce

Opere di Oratio Fineo del Delfinato: Disguise in cinque parti...

Venice 1587 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
249 SMITH, David Eugene

Rara Arithmetica. A Catalogue of the Arithmetics Written Before the Year MDCI ...

Boston 1908 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
250 MURPHY, Robert, GREEN, George, STOKES, George Gabriel, WHEWELL, William, HOLDITCH, Hamnet, et al.

Collection of 24 First Edition Mathematical or Scientific Papers Bound in One Volume.

Cambridge and London 1831-1877 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
251 MAUGHAM, William Somerset

Of Human Bondage.

London 1915 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 600.00
  • Sotheby’s
    10 September 2024
    The Shem Tov Bible
  • Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Cowper, William. Anatomia corporum humanorum ab excellentissimis… Utrecht, 1750. CHF 25,000 to 40,000
    Koller, Sep. 18: Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    18 September 2024
    Koller, Sep. 18: Gould, John. The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 18: Pfinzing, Melchior. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen…, Nürnberg, 1517. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
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