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
352 POLLEY, J. B. (1840-1918)

[TEXANA]. Hood's Texas Brigade. Its Marches Its Battles Its Achievements

New York and Washington 1910 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
353 SHIPMAN, Mrs. O. L.

[TEXANA]. Taming the Big Bend. A History of the Extreme Western Portion of Texas from Fort Clark to El Paso

[Austin, TX] [1926] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
354 [SIMPSON, Colonel Harold B. (1917-1989), editor]

[TEXANA]. Hood's Texas Brigade...

[Hillsboro, TX] [1968-1977] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
355 [SIMPSON, Colonel Harold B. (1917-1989), editor]

[TEXANA]. Hood's Texas Brigade...

[Hillsboro, TX 1968-1977] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
356 [WADE, Houston, compiler]

[TEXANA]. Notes and Fragments Of The Mier Expedition

[La Grange, TX] 1936-1937 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
357 WEBB, Walter Prescott (1888-1963)

[TEXANA]. The Texas Rangers. A Century of Frontier Defense

Boston 1935 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
358 [SIMPSON, Colonel Harold B. (1917-1989), editor]

[TEXANA]. [WRIGHT, Brigadier General Marcus J. (1831-1922), compiler]. Texas in the War 1861-1865

[Hillsboro, TX] [1965] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
359 VANCE, Jack (1916-2013)

The Languages of PAO

New York [1958] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 218.75
360 VAN VOGT, A. E. (1912-2000)

The Book of Ptath

Reading, PA 1947 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
361 VAN VOGT, A. E. (1912-2000)

Pair of First Editions, One Signed, including: Slan

Sauk City, WI [1946] USD 250.00 - 450.00 USD 187.50
362 WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946)

Tales of Space and Time

London and New York 1900 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 562.50
363

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [AFRICAN-AMERICANS]. Pair of First Editions About the African-American Experience In Nineteenth-Century America...

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
364 BELL, Bob Boze

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Trio of Limited Edition Specially Bound Copies

Phoenix, AZ 1996 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
365 DYKES, J. C.

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [BONNEY, William (a. k. a. BILLY THE KID, 1859-1881), subject]. Billy the Kid. The Bibliography of a Legend

Albuquerque, NM 1952 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 312.50
366 NOLAN, Frederick (1931-2022)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [BONNEY, William (a. k. a. BILLY THE KID, 1859-1881), subject]. The West of Billy the Kid [and] The West of Billy the Kid Biographical Supplement

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
367 NOLAN, Frederick (1931-2022)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [BONNEY, William (a. k. a. BILLY THE KID, 1859-1881), subject]. The West of Billy the Kid [and] The West of Billy the Kid Biographical Supplement

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 187.50
368 BURNS, Walter Noble (1866-1932)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [BONNEY, William (a. k. a. BILLY THE KID, 1859-1881), subject]. The Saga of Billy the Kid

Garden City 1926 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
369 BOURKE, John G. (1846-1896)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. On the Border with Crook

New York 1891 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
370 BREAKENRIDGE, William M. (1846-1931)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Helldorado. Bringing the Law to the Mesquite

Boston 1928 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
371 CUNNINGHAM, Eugene (1896-1957)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Famous in the West

El Paso, TX 1926 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 437.50
372 DYKES, Jeff

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Fifty Great Western Illustrators; A Bibliographic Checklist

[Flagstaff, AZ] [1975] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
373 LANGFORD, Nathaniel Pitt (1832-1911)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Vigilante Days and Ways. The Pioneers of the Rockies. The Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming

New York and Saint Paul 1893 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
374 MCCLINTOCK, John S. (1847-1942)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Pioneer Days in the Black Hills

Deadwood, SD [1939] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
375 MCGLASHAN, C. F. (1847-1931)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. History of the Donner Party. A Tragedy of the Sierras

Truckee, CA [1879] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
376 MILES, General Nelson A. (1839-1925)

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles... Copiously Illustrated with Graphic Pictures by Frederic Remington...

Chicago 1896 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
  • 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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