Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Artwork from the George D. Lacy & Louis A. Irmo Collections, 1243, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 564 items in 23 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
277 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936), NYBERG, Bjorn (1929-2004), DE CAMP, L. Sprague (1907-2000)

Group of 5 First Edition "Conan" Books

New York 1950-1957 USD 700.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
278 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936)

Pair of First Edition "Conan" Books

New York [1953-1954] USD 250.00 - 450.00 USD 437.50
279 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936)

Skull-Face and Others

Sauk City, WI 1946 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,500.00
280 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936)

Pair of Illustrated Limited Editions

London 1999-2001 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
281 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936)

Robert E. Howard's Complete Conan of Cimmeria

[London] [2002-2009] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
282 HOWARD, Robert E. (1906-1936)

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

[London] [1998] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
283 JEFFERS, Robinson (1887-1962)

An Artist

[Austin, TX] 1928 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
284 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln Complete Works

New York 1894 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
285 WHITNEY, Major Henry C. (1831-1905)

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln

Boston [1892] USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
286 WHITNEY, Major Henry C. (1831-1905)

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Life on the Circuit with Lincoln

Boston [1892] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
287 WILSON, Rufus Rockwell (1865-1949)

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. Pair of First Edition Biographies of Lincoln in Original Dust Jackets

[V.p.] [1942, 1945] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
288 [LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]

Lincoln's Account of The Hampton Roads Conference with Facsimiles from the Original Documents in the Collection of Judd Stewart

[N.p.] 1910 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
289 [POWER, John Carroll (1819-1894), editor]

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), subject]. History of An Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln, (Late President of the United States of America) Including a History of The Lincoln Guard of Honor...

Springfield, IL 1890 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
290 [FISHER, Hon. George P. (1817-1899), presiding]

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Trial of John H. Suratt in The Criminal Court for The District of Columbia

Washington 1867 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
291

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Pair of First Editions About Abraham Lincoln's Assassination...

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
292 [PITMAN, Benn (1822-1910), compiler]

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators...

Cincinnati and New York 1865 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
293

[LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. The Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators at Washington City, D. C., May and June, 1865, for the Murder of President Abraham Lincoln

Philadelphia [1865] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
294 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937)

Pair of Hardcover Titles Published by Arkham House

Sauk City 1974 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 312.50
295 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937)

Pair of Hardcover Titles Published by Arkham House, including: Something About Cats and Other Pieces

Sauk City, WI 1949 USD 250.00 - 450.00 USD 343.75
296 LOVECRAFT, H. P. (1890-1937)

Group of 4 Hardcover Titles Published by Arkham House

Sauk City [1967-1970] USD 450.00 - 850.00 USD 937.50
297 MILLER, Henry (1891-1980)

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring

New York [1961, 1963] USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
298 MUNDY, Talbot (1879-1940)

Tros of Samothrace

New York and London 1934 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,625.00
299 MUNDY, Talbot (1879-1940)

Pair of First Editions, One Signed by Mundy

[V.p.] [1929, 1934] USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 750.00
300 MUNDY, Talbot (1879-1940)

Pair of First Editions of Purple Pirate

New York 1935 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
301 DODGE, Colonel Richard Irving (1827-1895)

[NATIVE AMERICANS]. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West

Hartford, CT 1882 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 187.50
  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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