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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 159 | DEVOL, George (1829 -- 1903) | Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi. |
New York | 1887 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 161 | A Kosher Comedian. |
New York | n.d. | USD 50.00 - 150.00 | USD 360.00 | |
| 162 | AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY [DIME MUSEUM]. Tammany Museum Broadside Agreement. |
New York | 1796 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,120.00 | |
| 163 | [DIME MUSEUM]. Winchell! At The Museum! |
Boston | ca. 1841. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 164 | [DIME MUSEUM]. Startling Additions to the New York Museum of Anatomy. |
New York | ca. late 1860s. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 165 | DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (1859 -- 1930) | The Case for Spirit Photography. |
New York | 1923 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 166 | EAGLE, Barnardo (1806 -- 58) | Autographed Letter from the Magician to J. Procter. |
Postmarked January 18 | 1847 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 510.00 |
| 167 | [EAGLE, Barnardo]. | Arrival of the Royal Original Wizard / Necromantic Wonders. |
Plymouth | ca. 1840s. | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 168 | ECKARTHAUSEN, Karl von. | Verschiedenes zum Unterricht und zur Unterhaltung fur Liebhaber der Gauckeltasche, des Magnetismus, und anderer Seltenheiten. |
Munich | 1793 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 169 | W.G. Edwards. | Edwards' Monthly. V1 N1 (Feb. 1909) -- V2 N3 (Jun./Jul. 1910) |
1909- 1910 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 170 | EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849) | The Show Folks!... Embellished with Nine Characteristic Designs on Wood by the Late Mr. Theodore Lane... |
London | 1831 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 171 | [EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849), association]. MONCRIEFF, William Thomas (1794-1857) | Tom and Jerry; or, Life in London. An Operatic Extravaganza, in Three Acts. |
London | 1826 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 60.00 |
| 172 | EISENMANN, Charles (1855 -- 1927) | Group of 7 cabinet card and 7 CDV portraits of dwarfs and little people. |
New York | ca. 1870s-80s. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 450.00 |
| 173 | Destruction of the Noble Elephant. |
London | ca. 1826. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 240.00 | |
| 174 | Putnam's Exhibition! In Elocution & Oratory. |
Buffalo | ca. 1850s. | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 175 | Endless Amusement; A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments. |
London | ca. 1820 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 150.00 | |
| 176 | Two accounts of criminal highwaymen, smugglers, and gamesters. Including: The Life of Thomas Munn, Alias, The Gentleman Brick-Maker...to which is Added, A short Account of the Life of John Hall, his Accomplice... |
London | 1750 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 177 | ENGSTROM, A.B. | The Humorous Magician Unmasked. |
Philadelphia | 1836 | USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 |
| 178 | ERDNASE, S.W (pseudonym) | The Expert at the Card Table. |
Conjuring Arts Research Center | 2016 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 179 | A cabinet photograph of an escape artist and advertisement for the Defiance Handcuff Act. |
Circa 1910s. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 660.00 | ||
| 180 | ESCUDIER, Gaston. | Les Saltimbanques, leur Vie, leurs Moeurs. |
Paris | 1875 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 150.00 |
| 181 | EVANS, Henry Ridgely (1861 -- 1949) | Cagliostro: A Sorcerer of the Eighteenth Century. |
New York | 1931 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 182 | EVANS, Henry Ridgley (1861 -- 1949) | History of Conjuring and Magic. |
Kenton Ohio | 1930 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 183 | Signor Ali-Masca, Is Lately Arrived Here from Africa with the Quoias Morrou, A Very Rare Animal, Called by the Europeans A Satyr. |
N.p. | 1772 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 960.00 | |
| 184 | SMITH, John Thomas. | A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Last Sixty-Six Years. |
London | 1845 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 480.00 |
![<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.")
