• Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Gell (William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity, 1804. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Low (David). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, 1842. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: North America. Moll (Herman)..., This Map of North America..., circa 1725. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Bible [English]. [The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe, 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, newly Printed, 1602. £1,500 to £2,000. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Cuffee (Paul). Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, A Man of Color, Liverpool, 1811. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, signed limited edition, 1928. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, limited signed edition, 1932. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, 1945. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1997. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1954-55. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Wells (H. G.) The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1898. £1,000 to £1,500.
  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win
    Letterpress & Bindery Auction
    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h.

Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, 1193, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
552

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of Nearly 86 Black and White Snapshots of the New York World's Fair.

New York 1939-40. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
553

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. [AVIATION]. Group of 5 Black and White Snapshots of a Biplane.

Illinois, n.d. ca.1920s-40s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
554

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Trio of Early Portraits of Baseball Players.

N.p. ca.1890s-1910s. USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
555

[PHOTOGRAPHY]. "Pueblo de Taos" Imperial Cabinet Card.

New Mexico 1893 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
556

[PORTUGUESE "BELENZADA AFFAIR"]. Manuscript Account (by an Unnamed British Marine) of Queen Maria II's (1819-53) Counter Revolution.

Lisbon, November 3-10 1836 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
557

[PRUSSIAN ROYAL YACHT]. Von Stettin nach Ystadt den 11. bis 14 Juli 1859.

From Szczecin to Ystadt 1859 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
558

[QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901), association]. Military Commission for Alexander George Dickson.

The Court of St James, the Eighth day of June 1862 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
559

[RUSSIAN IMPERIAL NAVY]. SEYMOUR, Wilfred. Pair of Autograph Letters Signed Describing the Grand Russian Fleet Review.

Krasnoye Selo, 1897 USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
560 SEUSS, Dr. (pseudonym of GEISEL, Theodore (1904-1991)

Inscribed Leaf with Printed Image of The Cat in the Hat.

N.p., n.d.. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 720.00
561 SINATRA, Frank (1915-1998)

Signed Menu for "Frank Sinatra in the Wedgwood Room" at the Waldorf-Astoria.

New York ca.1943. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
562 ROBINSON, Frederick A. (1860-1945)

South Africa Ephemera Archive of Civil Engineer and Gold Mining Industrializer Frederick A. Robinson.

South Africa 1891 and 1903. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 450.00
563

[STEAMSHIP NAVIGATION IN RUSSIA]. Two Primary Source Manuscript Diaries Of an Unnamed English Engineer Contracted by the Amoor Shipping Company Concerning Pioneering Navigation and Commerce of Early Steam Ships On the Amur and Shilka Rivers, 1861-1880.

Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Chita, Sretensk, Blagoveshchensk, TransBaikal villages 1861-1880. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
564 BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), BARKER, Lex (1919-1973), O'SULLIVAN, Maureen (1911-1998), BENNETT, Bruce (1906-2007), SHEFFIELD, Johnny (1931-2010), SCOTT, Gordon (1926-2007), and MILLER, Denny (1934-2014)

Group of 8 Tarzan-Related Signed, Framed Items, including: check signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzana 1937 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 240.00
565 WEISMULLER, Johnny (1904-1984)

Signed Collage.

N.p., n.d.. USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
566 VERNOUILLET, Augustin "Maurice" Marchant de (1829-1898)

Pair of Manuscript Lecture Notes.

Saint-Denis, 1842-1845. USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
567 WATSON-WENTWORTH, Charles, Second Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782)

Signed Manuscript Military Commission.

England 1762 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
568 WELLESLEY, Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

Manuscript (in an unknown hand) Proclamation nominating Joseph Lobb, Esquire to the position of Deputy Lieutenant for the town (and county of the town) of Southhampton.

1846 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
569 WILLIAM IV, KING OF ENGLAND (1765-1837)

Official Royal Navy Document Signed.

England, 1827 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
570

[ALICE IN WONDERLAND]. Group of 12 Original Ink Drawings After John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland on Lace-Bordered Doilies.

Ca. late 19th century. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 300.00
571 GREIFFENHAGEN, Maurice (1862-1931)

Original Drawing for H. Rider Haggard's "Ayesha The Return of She".

England 1905 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
572 HURD, Peter (1904-1984)

Marauders of the Sea. Being a Compilation of Stories - both Historical and Fictional of various Exploits of the most Notorious Corsairs, Buccaneers, Pirates, Mutineers, Privateers, Maronners &c. Edited and with an Introduction by N. C. Wyeth.

New York 1935 USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
573 JOHNSON, Charles Howard, (1868-1896)

Water-Color Drawings by Charles Howard Johnson.

N.p., n.d. ca.1880's. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
574 KNIGHT, David (1923-1982)

Group of 10 Original Pen and Ink Drawings for Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho.

England ca.1950s. USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
575 SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)

Good Night, Sweet Mind. From You Can't Get There from Here by Ogden Nash

ca.1957. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
576 WAIN, Louis (1860-1939)

Signed Ink Drawing of a Cat.

England, n.d.. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,200.00
  • ALDE, Dec. 9: BLAEU (JOAN) ET BORGOGNIO (GIO TOMASO). Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye…, La Haye, 1700. €25,000 to €30,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: BROWNE (JAMES D. HOWE). Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit. London, 1853. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: FELLOWS (CHARLES). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc. London, 1827. €30,000 to €40,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HACQUET (BELSAZAR). Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen…, Leipzig, 1785. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HAWES (BENJAMIN). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, 1828.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: MARTEL (PIERRE) ET WINDHAM (WILLIAM). An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters…, London, 1744. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: PITSCHNER (WILHELM). Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859…, Berlin, 1860-1864. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: SCHEUCHZER (JOHANN JACOB). Natur-Geschichte des Schweizerlandes, samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Zurich, 1746. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: STUMPF (JOANNES). Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnosschaft Stetten, Landen, und Völckeren Chronicwirdiger Thaatenbeschreybung. Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1548. €2,500 to €3,500.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WALTON (ELIJAH) ET BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE). The Peaks and valleys of the Alps. London, 1868. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WYTTENBACH (JACOB SAMUEL). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description. Amsterdam, 1785. €15,000 to €20,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD
    Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD
  • Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.
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