Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts, and the Dornish Collection of Children's Book Art, 1197, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 16, 2025 - January 16, 2025

Page Size: 495 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	CHASE, Owen (1797-1869).	Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket; Which Was Attacked and Finally Destroyed by a Large Spermaceti-Whale, in the Pacific Ocean; with an Account of the Unparalleled Sufferings of the Captain a	New York	1821	USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 26,400.00
3	GALILEO, Galilei (1564-1642).	Opere di Galileo Galilei Linceo Nobile Fiorentino Gia Lettore delle Matematiche Nelle Universita di pisa, e di Padoua, di poi Sopraordinario nello Studio di Pisa.	Bologna	1656	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 6,600.00
4	DIXON, Phil and HANNIGAN, Patrick J.	The Negro Baseball Leagues 1867-1955. A Photographic History.	Mattituck	1992	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 6,000.00
5	ROWLING, J. K. (b. 1965).	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.	New York	1998	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 11,400.00
6	ADAMS, Richard (1920-2016).	Watership Down.	New York	1972	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 900.00
7	ROGERS, J[oel] A[ugustus] (1880-1966).	100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof. A Short Cut to The World History of the Negro.	New York City	1934	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 96.00
8	DALL, William H. (1845-1927).	Alaska and Its Resources.	Boston	1870	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 300.00
9	ALGREN, Nelson.	A Walk on the Wild Side.	New York	1956	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 210.00
10	[EMMONS, William].	Authentic Biography of Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky.	Boston	1834	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 270.00
11	WINTERBOTHAM, W[illiam] (1763-1829).	An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies.	New York	1796	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 900.00
12	ANGELOU, Maya (1928-2014).	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.	New York	1969	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 600.00
13	[ZADKIEL, pseudonym of MORRISON, Richard James (1795-1874), editor].	The Horoscope; a Weekly Miscellany of Astrology, Containing Complete Answers to Every Objection to the Science...	Liverpool	1834	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 108.00
14	ATWOOD, Margaret (b. 1939).	The Handmaid's Tale.	Boston	1986	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 300.00
15	AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817).	Group of 5 Titles from the Everyman's Library.	New York	1991-92.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 210.00
16	BALDWIN, James (1924-1987).	Nobody Knows My Name. More Notes of a Native Son.	New York	1961	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 2,160.00
17	Group of 8 Items, including: KELLY, Robert.	Twenty Poems.		1967	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 120.00
18	BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005).	Group of 6 First Trade Editions.	V.p.	20th century.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 240.00
19		C. Billy the Kid the Bibliography of a Legend. In: University of New Mexico Publications in Language and Literature, Number Seven.	Albuquerque	1952	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 180.00
20		Pair of figural elephant brass bookends.		Circa 1930s-40s.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 150.00
21		Cast Iron Book Press.		Ca. 19th century.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 480.00
22		Substantial collection of bookseller catalogs, prospectuses, and related ephemera.	American	ca. 1940s-80s.	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 180.00
23	BATES, Finis L. (1848-1923).	The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth or the First True Account of Lincoln's Assassination Containing a Complete Confession by Booth Many Years After the Crime.	Memphis	1907	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 300.00
24	BROWN, Dan (b. 1964).	The Da Vinci Code.	New York	2003	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 390.00
25	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-1994).	South of No North. Stories of the Buried Life.	Los Angeles	1973	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 1,320.00
26	BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-1994).	Cerveza / Beer.	Buenos Aires	1995	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 96.00

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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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