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

Auction Details

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

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.