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
551 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), illustrator and contributor]

Norman Lindsay [Vision: A Literary Quarterly [and:] Poetry in Australia 1923-1924

Sydney 1923 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
552 BLOOMFIELD, Lin (1931-2023)

Norman Lindsay [LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), subject]. Norman Lindsay Watercolours 1897-1963

Bungendore, Australia [2003] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
553 BLOOMFIELD, Lin (1931-2023)

Norman Lindsay [LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), subject]. The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay

Bungendore, Australia [1998] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
554 BLOOMFIELD, Lin (1931-2023)

Norman Lindsay [LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), subject]. Norman Lindsay Oil Paintings 1889-1969

Bungendore, Australia [2006] USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 437.50
555 PETRONIUS (pseudonym of ARTIBER, Gaius Petronius)

Norman Lindsay [LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), subject]. Petronius. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the Earliest English Translation (1694) Now First Reprinted with an Introduction...

London 1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
556 LITTLEWOOD, Robert C. (b. 1950)

Norman Lindsay [LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969), subject]. Keith Wingrove Ex Libris. Being a consideration of a life devoted to the acquisition of art, books, and bookplates in Australia...

Melbourne 1996 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 125.00
557 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Autograph Letter Signed

Springwood [NSW] Nov. 25th -- 1941 [?] USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
558 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Pen Drawings

Sydney 1924 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,125.00
559 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Micomicana

Melbourne 1979 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
560 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay

Sydney 1918 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,062.50
561 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Group of 9 First Editions in Dust Jackets or Original Wrappers Illustrated or Written by Lindsay

[V.p.] [ca. 20th century] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 343.75
562 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Pair of Later Editions of "The Magic Pudding," One with an Original Drawing, Both Signed

Sydney [1958, 1963] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 593.75
563 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Norman Lindsay Water Colour Book... Publication Number One

Sydney 1939 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
564 LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Norman Lindsay Norman Lindsay Water Colour Book Prospectus

Chicago 1939] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
565 LUCAS. E. V. (1868-1938)

Edwin Austen Abbey Royal Academician. The Record of His Life and Work...

London 1921 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
566 MILTON, John (1608-1674)

John (1789) Martin [MARTIN, John (1789-1854), illustrator]. The Paradise Lost of Milton...

London 1833 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 937.50
567 [MARTIN, John (1789-1854), illustrator]

John (1789) Martin Martin's Illustrations of Milton

[London] [ca. 1825-27] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,250.00
568 [MENNIE, Donald (1875-1944), photographer]

The Pageant of Peking. Comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs...

Shanghai 1922 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
569 [MUCHA, Alphonse (1860-1939), contributor]

Alphonse Mucha Paris-Noel

[Paris] [1896-97] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 250.00
570 POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

John R Neill [NEILL, John Rea (1877-1943), illustrator]. The Raven. Annabel Lee. The Bells

Chicago [1910] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 593.75
571 JACQUES, Henry (pseudonym of COHEN, Jacques)

Kay Nielsen [NIELSEN, Kay (1886-1957), illustrator]. Sous le Signe du Rossignol

Paris [1923] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
572 PILON, Edmond (1874-1945)

Kay Nielsen [NIELSEN, Kay (1886-1957), illustrator]. A l'Est du Soleil et a l'Ouest de la Lune

Paris [1919] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
573 HERONDAS (Ca. 3rd century B. C.)

Alan Elsden Odle [ODLE, Alan (1888-1948), illustrator]. [LINDSAY, Jack (1900-1990), translator]. The Mimiambs of Herondas

[London] [1929] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
574 DE HEREDIA, Jose-Maria (1842-1905)

[OLIVIER-MERSON, Luc (1846-1920), illustrator]. [FLAMENG, Leopold (1831-1911), engraver]. Les Trophees

Paris 1907 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 687.50
575 BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867)

[ORAZI, Manuel (1860-1934), illustrator]. Les Fleurs du Mal...

Paris 1934 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
  • 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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