Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part III, 1200, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 15, 2025 - February 15, 2025
Page Size: 372 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3

[ADVERTISING -- MAGICIANS]. Collection of Magicians' Promotional Materials

1880s -- 2000s. USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
4 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

A Christmas Entertainment of an Unprecedented Scale

London 1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
5 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

Magic & Mystery, by Professor Anderson The Great Wizard of the North

[London] 1855 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,560.00
6 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

Far-Famed Professor!! ... Wizard of the North

Lynn ca. 1846. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 600.00
7 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

Grand Final Farewell Week of The Great Wizard

Leeds 1854 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,640.00
8 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

Professor Anderson Complimentary Pass and Handbill

[London] 1865 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 780.00
9 (Edwin Hargreaves, d. 1952).

SIGNOR ARVI The Great Arvi Mystery

Grimsby 1928 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 330.00
10

[AUTOGRAPHS]. Eddie Dawes' Autograph Album

1960s -- 90s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
11

[AUTOMATA]. Wonderful Talking Machine

[London] [ca. 1844]. USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,560.00
12

[AUTOMATON CHESS PLAYER]. Maelzel's Exhibition of the Ne Plus Ultra in Mechanism

[London] ca. 1819. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,280.00
13

[BAR MAGIC]. Johnny Paul's Magic Lounge Souvenir Matchbook

Wadsworth, OH 1940s. USD 50.00 - 150.00 USD 330.00
14

Blackstone Master Magician Comics V1 N1 -- V1 N3

1946 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
15 BLITZ, Antonio (1810 -- 77).

Sig. Blitz Jun. ... Five Italian Dinner Plates

Hull 1827 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 480.00
16 BODIE, Walford (1869 -- 1939).

Three Photographs of the "Bloodless Surgeon."

Circa 1910s USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 540.00
17

BODIE, Walford (1869 -- 1939)

Glasgow ca. 1915. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 480.00
18 BODIE, Walford (1869 -- 1939).

Archive of Bodie Research, Correspondence and Manuscripts

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,640.00
19

[BOOKPLATES]. Album of Over 100 Magicians' Bookplates

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,200.00
20 CANNON, Alexander (1896 -- 1963).

Archive of Alexander Cannon Ephemera, Research, and Correspondence

1930s -- 60s USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 2,880.00
22

CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1885 -- 1973)

1968 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
23 CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1885 -- 1973).

Photograph of Cardini, Inscribed and Signed

1930s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
24 (Richard Pitchford, 1885 -- 1973).

CARDINI Six Comical Photographs of Cardini and Horace Goldin

1930s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 540.00
25 CARDINI (Richard Pitchford, 1885 -- 1973).

Four Cardini London Theatre Programmes

1930s USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 510.00
26 (Maurius Cazeneuve, 1839 -- 1913).

CAZENEUVE Representation Extraodinare

Toulouse ca. 1896. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 450.00
27

[CHRISTMAS CARDS - MAGIC]. Huge Group of Several Hundred Signed Christmas Cards Sent to Edwin Dawes and His Wife, Amy

[V.p.] [ca. 1970s-2000s] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 570.00
28 (William E. Robinson, 1861 -- 1918).

CHUNG Ling Soo A Few of Robinson's New Ideas

New York ca. 1890. USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 510.00
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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, 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 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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