Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I, 1176, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 24, 2024 - February 24, 2024
Page Size: 379 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
420 LYLE, Cecil (Cecil Cohen, 1889 -- 1955)

Lyle With his Magical Revue. Cavalcade of Mystery.

British 1930s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 425.00
421 MACCABE, Frederic (1831 -- 1904)

Maccabe & Mdlle Minnia. The Magic Statue.

Burnley ca. 1880 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 400.00
422

[MARBRUS]. La Femme Fantome.

[Paris?] ca. 1930 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
423

MARTINO. Grand Opening of Martino's Temple of Amusement and Enchantment.

New York [1868]. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
424 MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917)

Maskelyne & Cooke's Marvellous Entertainment.

London ca. 1880 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,600.00
425

MERLIN. The Master of Mystery. Merlin.

London 1939 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
426

MORITZ. Mr. Moritz Will Exhibit his Wonderful Performances.

[Hull] 1805 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,100.00
427 MURRAY (Murray Walters, 1901 -- 88)

The Sensational Murray.

London ca. 1946 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 200.00
428 OKITO (Tobias Bamberg, 1875 -- 1963)

OKITO.

Paris ca. 1930 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,500.00
429 OKITO (Tobias Bamberg, 1875 -- 1963)

Okito.

Marseille ca. 1935 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,600.00
430 OKITO (Tobias Bamberg, 1875 -- 1963)

Okito. [Floating Ball].

Marseille ca. 1920 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,200.00
431

OVERTON.

Overton! The Funniest Ventriloquist! Hartlepool 1871 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 100.00
432 PHILIPPE (Jacques Talon, 1802 -- 78)

Philippe's Modern Miracles!!

[London] [1846]. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 750.00
433 RUBINI (Philip Prentice Anderson, 1844--1920 [?])

Rubini. Beheading a Lady.

[London] 1867 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,900.00
434 SAVREN, James (ca. 1821 -- 91)

Soirees Mysterieuses. Mr. J. Savren.

Lambeth 1855 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 850.00
435

[STOCK POSTER]. The Amazing Alma Levitation Stock Poster.

[Newport, KY] 1930s. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 250.00
436

[STOCK POSTER]. Harry Gold Presenting Bombay Mysteries.

Birmingham ca. 1920s. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
437 TESTOT, Felix (c. 1799 -- 1879)

Unprecedented Novelty!!! Theatre of Magic.

Dublin 1825 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
438 THURSTON, Howard (1874 -- 1936)

Thurston the Great Magician. [Devil's Head.]

Cleveland ca. 1930 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,200.00
439

[VENTRILOQUISTS]. Eight Variety Broadsides Featuring Music Hall Ventriloquists.

[Hull 1940s -- 50s]. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 150.00
440 VONETTA (Etta Paul, 1878 - 1964)

Two Lithographed Window Posters.

Belfast ca. 1910 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,000.00
441 WALKER, Val (1890 -- 1969)

Wizard in Chief to the Navy.

Leeds, London & Glasgow ca. 1919 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,000.00
442 WANDAS, Suzy (Jeanne Van Dyk)

The Wanda's In Their Illusion Mysterious Hand.

Paris ca. 1912 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,400.00
443 WARLOCK, Peter (Alec Bell, 1904 - 95)

[Shelves of Conjuring Books.]

1982 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,800.00
444 WOOD, William (c. 1862 -- 1908)

Wood's Great Sensation Edna.

Newport ca. 1900 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,000.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    30th May 2024
    Forum, May 30: Potter (Beatrix). Complete set of four original illustrations for the nursery rhyme, 'This pig went to market', 1890s. £60,000 to £80,000.
    Forum, May 30: Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus). Opera, second edition, Rome, 1468. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum, May 30: Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus). Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', Strassburg, 1512. £22,000 to £28,000.
    Forum, May 30: Eliot (T.S.), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, & others. A Personal Anthology for Eric Walter White, 60 autograph poems. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, May 30: Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien). De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition, Paris, 1758. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    30th May 2024
    Forum, May 30: Szyk (Arthur). The Haggadah, one of 125 copies, this out-of-series, Beaconsfield Press, 1940. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, May 30: Japan.- Ryusui (Katsuma). Umi no Sachi [Wealth of the Sea], 2 vol., Tokyo, 1762. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, May 30: Computing.- Operating and maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949, Philadelphia, 1949. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, May 30: Burmese School (probably circa 1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c.1870s]. £8,000 to £12,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
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