Potter and Potter Auctions: The Ricky Jay Collection: Part 3, 1187, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- August 17, 2024 - August 17, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 340 | Les Magique Leons. The Whirlwind Illusionists. |
Netherfield | ca. 1925. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 341 | [MAILHOL, Gustave]. | Le Philosophe Negre, et les Secrets des Grecs. |
Londres false imprint; Paris | 1764 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 342 | MALINI, Max (Max Katz Breit, 1873 - 1942) | Group of Malini Ephemera. |
Six items | 1930s -- 40s. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 |
| 343 | MALINI, Max (Max Katz Breit, 1873 - 1942) | Malini Advertising Handout. |
Los Angeles | 1936 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
| 344 | MALINI, Max (Max Katz Breit, 1873 - 1942) | Portrait of Magician Max Malini. |
New York | ca. 1920 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,140.00 |
| 345 | MARLO, Ed (1913 -- 91) | Marlo's Magazine Volume Four. |
Chicago | 1980 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 346 | MARO (Walter Truman Best 1868 - 1908) | Maro Prince of Magic. |
Chicago | ca. 1906 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 347 | [Maskelyne Box Trick Trial Documents.] |
London | 1899 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
| 348 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917) | The Magnetic Lady. |
Bristol | 1892 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 350 | Maxim Versus Maskelyne. |
London | 1910 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 60.00 | |
| 351 | MAURER, David (1906 -- 81) | The Big Con. |
Indianapolis and New York | 1940 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 352 | MAYHEW, Henry (1812 -- 1887) | London Labour and the London Poor: the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work. |
London | 1861-62. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 353 | [MICROCALLIGRAPHY]. BLYSTONE, Ernest (d. 1963) | Drawing on a Grain of Rice. |
Chicago | 1933 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 354 | MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 -- 1912) | The Wonderful Two Headed Girl! ... The Most Remarkable Human Being Ever Born to Live. |
Boston? | ca. 1868 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 355 | MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 -- 1912) | The Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Company. |
London | ca. 1872. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 356 | MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 -- 1912) | Group of 6 programs, handbills, and a CDV. Including: a carte de visite portrait |
Ollivier | ca. 1880s | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 357 | MILLIE-CHRISTINE (Millie and Christine McKoy, 1851 -- 1912) | Group of 4 programs and booklets. Including: The Astonishing Birth and History, of that Wonderful Freak of Nature...Millie Christine. |
London | ca. 1871 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 358 | MINCH, Stephen (b. 1948) | The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley. Volumes I-II. |
Tahoma | 1991 and 1994. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 359 | MINGUET, D. Pablo (1733-1778) | Juegos de Manos o sea Arte de Hacer Diabluras... |
Barcelona | 1857 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 360 | Primrose & West's Big Minstrels. Freeze Brothers. |
Cincinnati & New York | 1897 | USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
| 361 | Hilson's Famous Minstrels. |
Newport KY | ca. 1890s-1900s. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 362 | Monitor Fire Kindler / Greatest Invention Since Printing! |
Cincinnati | ca. 1870s. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 363 | Non Plus Ultra. Public Breakfast. |
London? | ca. 1785 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 364 | Three 16th and 17th century engravings of freaks and oddities. Including: engraving depicting a multi-headed, eight-armed Cyclops monster with goat legs |
ca. 1654 | 16th and 17th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 365 | MOORE, Ann (1761 -- 1813) | Group of 3 scarce booklets on the Fasting Woman of Tutbury. Including: An Account of the Wonderful Abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury. |
Boston | 1811 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 900.00 |
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/29dc9a36-584c-476d-bc08-834bc3d3902d.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.")
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d1c7f9bc-1bd9-43a2-9cd9-fa2e0a89d50f.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> 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.")
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dcac6725-5a79-4a9a-8172-9a5e10ccb75b.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> 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.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> 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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/e0a5c41f-2fd1-4645-8816-32d89dc4e5fb.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> 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.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> World.- Blaeu (Johannes). <i>Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu,</i> engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/58851f55-ad3a-4d3a-8a53-a311900b6f84.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> World.- Blaeu (Johannes). <i>Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu,</i> engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Shelley (Mary). <i>Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus,</i> 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/18c42c85-f730-43c0-bc2e-c8d799ae4308.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Shelley (Mary). <i>Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus,</i> 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> [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.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/ac8ca527-c37b-44d5-b1d8-d369d712b17d.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> [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.")
![<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Lewis (C.S.) <i>[The Chronicles of Narnia],</i> 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/05e185d5-1ef2-48ba-943f-e6541c123bfe.png "<b>Forum, 26 Sep:</b> Lewis (C.S.) <i>[The Chronicles of Narnia],</i> 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.")
