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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 366 | HANINGTON, Julia Anne (ca. 1793 -- 1892) | Just Returned to London ... the Mysterious Lady. |
London | ca. 1846 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 367 | The New Art of Making Fireworks. |
London | ca. 1859 | USD 250.00 - 400.00 | USD 150.00 | |
| 368 | The New Bon Ton Magazine; or Telescope of the Times. |
London | 1818-21. | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | USD 570.00 | |
| 369 | Four books and booklets on New York crime and underworld. Including: FOSTER, G.G. New York by Gas-light. |
New York | 1850 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 600.00 | |
| 370 | [NEW YORK CITY -- CRIME]. MACKEEVER, Samuel A. (1848--?) | Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters. |
New York | 1880 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 371 | NEWMANN, Christian Andrew George (1880 - 1952) | Newmann the Great. Making His Famous Blindfold Drive. |
Milwaukee | ca. 1900s. | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 372 | No Tricks Upon Travellers; or, the Chambermaid Outwitted. |
London | n.d. ca. 1810. | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 373 | NUTT, George Washington Morrison (1848 -- 1881) | Group of Commodore Nutt Photographs and Ephemera. 17 pieces from the life and career of this dwarf performer. |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 840.00 | ||
| 374 | OLCOTT, Chauncey (John Chancellor Olcott 1858 -- 1932) | Chauncey Olcott In Mavourneen. |
Cincinnati & New York | ca. 1900. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 375 | Japanese Woodblock Print. |
N.d. | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 150.00 | ||
| 376 | OZANAM, Jacques. | Recreations Mathematical and Physical. |
London | 1708 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 377 | PASTRANA, Julia (subject) | Curious History of the ... Baboon Lady, Miss Julia Pastrana [and the] Double-Bodied Boy! |
London | ca. 1850 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 378 | [WILSON, George (1766-1836), subject]. | Pair of Engraved Portraits of George Wilson, the Celebrated Blackheath Pedestrian. Including: "George Wilson, the celebrated Blackheath Pedestrian Aged 51." |
London | 1815 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 379 | Group of 5 Black and White Illustrated Items Related to Famous Pedestrians. |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 240.00 | |||
| 380 | Group of 5 Hand-Colored Plates of British Pedestrians. |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 720.00 | |||
| 381 | Group of 6 Hand-Colored Plates of British Pedestrians, Plus a Letterpress Broadside. |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 300.00 | |||
| 382 | John Bull at the Fair Meeting with a very old Acquaintance!! |
London | 1807 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 240.00 | |
| 384 | PEPPER, Professor J.H. (1821 -- 1900) | Tremont Temple. Prof. J.H. Pepper, F.C.S. |
Boston | n.d. ca. 1870s. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 385 | PEPPER, John Henry (1821-1900) | Scientific Amusements for Young People. |
London | 1864 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 386 | PERSIUS, Charles (pseudonym of Charles Dunne). | Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823. |
London | 1823 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 387 | [CRUIKSHANK, George]. | "Greeks." The Pigeons. Dedicated to All the Flats, and Showing the Artifices, Success, and Crimes of Gaming, Gamesters, and Gambling Houses. |
London | 1817 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 388 | PH. DE NORAN (Philippe De Bischop 1880 - 1950) | Ph. De Noran and Datura. |
Brussels | ca. 1920 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 389 | PHILION, Achille. | An Attraction Without a Parallel. |
Buffalo | 1899 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 390 | [PICKPOCKETS]. Group of 9 prints. |
V.p. French and English | v.d. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 391 | Randall, E.O. | Pickpockets I Have Met. |
Columbus | 1906 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 150.00 |
![<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.")
