Potter and Potter Auctions: Online Only Fine Books Sale, 1228, Chicago

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Auction Date
January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
Page Size: 584 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 FOOTE, E. B.

Science in Story; Sammy Tubbs, The Boy Doctor and "Sponsie" The Troublesome Monkey.

 New York 1874 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
2 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907).

The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

 New York 1897-1907 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
3 ALGREN, Nelson (1909-1981).

Pair of First Editions in Dust Jacket, One Inscribed, including

 The Neon Wilderness. Garden City 1947 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
4 HOLGATE, Jerome B.

Atlas of American History on a Novel Plan...

New York 1842 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
5 COLTON, J. H. and JOHNSON, A. J.

Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...

 New York 1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
6 BAYARD, Ferdinand M[arie]

Voyage dans l'Interieur des Etats-Unis, a Bath, Winchester, dans la Vallee de Shenandoah, etc., etc...

Paris An V1 1793-1794 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
7 BELKNAP, Jeremy.

American Biography: or An Historical Account of those Persons who have been distinguished in America...

Boston 1794 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
8 BRISTED, John.

The Resources of the United States of America; or a View of the Agricultural, Commercial, Manufacturing, Financial, Political, Literary, Moral and Religious Capacity and Character of the American People...

 New York 1818 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
9 [BRYANT, William Cullen (1794-1878), editor].

Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of The Mountains, Rivers...

 New York 1872-74 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 450.00
10 [BRYANT, William Cullen (1794-1878), editor].

Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of The Mountains, Rivers...

 New York 1872-74 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
11 CHERNOW, Ron.

Trio of Biographies, Two of Which Are Signed by Him.

V.p. 21st century USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
12

Trio of 19th Century First Edition History Books.

 V.p. ca.19th century USD 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
13

Trio of First Editions, Signed by Civil War Generals.

V.p. ca.19th -- 20th centuries USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 270.00
14 FRANCK, Sebastian (1499-1543).

Weltbuch spiegel und bildtniss des gantzen erdbodens...in vier Bucher, nemlich in Asiam, Aphricam, Europam, und Americam gestelt und abteilt...

Tubingen 1534 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
15 HARMON, Daniel Williams.

A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interiour of North America...

Andover 1820 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
16 HODGSON, Adam.

Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821, in a Series of Letters:... Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour.

 New York 1823 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
17 [JEFFERSON, Thomas, subject]

The New-York Review and Quarterly Church Journal. No. 1. March, 1837 [and] No. 2. October, 1837

 New York 1837 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
18 [KEIFER, Major General J. Warren, association] [SMITH, Henry H., compiler]

Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives in which is also included the Constitution of the United States of America...

Washington ca. 1885 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
19 HALL, Frederick.

Letters from the East and from the West.

Washington City 1840 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
20 ATWATER, Caleb.

Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States... as Published in Archaeologia Americana / Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society Volume I.

 Worcester MA 1820 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
21 LEWIS, Henry (1819--1904), artist.

Das illustrirte Mississippithal...

Leipzig and Firenze 1923 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
22

Pair of Diverse Americana Titles, including: ROOSEVELT, Theodore and ROOSEVELT, Kermit. East of the Sun and West of the Moon.

 New York 1926 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
23 [GOUVEST, Maubert de]

Lettres Iroquoises, ou Correspondence Politique Historique et Critique entre un Iroquois Voyageant en Europe...

 London 1783 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
24

Group of 10 Pamphlets and Publications on Various American Subjects.

 V.p. ca.19th -- 20th centuries USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
25 JEROME, Chauncey.

History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years... Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business.

New Haven 1860 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
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