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

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Auction Report
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
353 OBAMA, Michelle.

The Look. With Meredith Koop.

New York 2025 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
354 ONDAATJE, Michael.

Group of 5 First Editions.

V.p. ca.20th -- 21st centuries USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
355 GIRAUD, Jr., J. P.

The Birds of Long Island.

New York 1844 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
356 [WALKER, John]

Oxoniana.

London ca. 1807 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
357 MARSH, Othniel Charles.

Odontornithes: A Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America, in United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume VII.

Washington 1880 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
358 OSBORN, Henry Fairfield.

The Titanotheres of Ancient Wyoming, Dakota, and Nebraska.

Washington 1929 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
359 [PEEP SHOWS]

Trio of "Gaiarama" Peep-Show Titles.

Willits Ca ca.late 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
360 STAEHLIN, [Jacob]

Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Collected from the Conversation of Several Persons of Distinction at Petersburgh and Moscow.

London 1788 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
361 [DICKENS, Charles, subject]

Cabinet Card Portrait of Dickens.

London ca.1850s-1860s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
362 [FRENCH AUTHORS]

Group of 5 Cabinet Card Portraits of French Authors.

Paris ca.1880s USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
364 AVEDON, Richard (1923-2004), photographer]

Avedon Photographs 1947-1977.

New York 1978 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
365 Madonna

Sex.

New York 1992 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 108.00
366 [PHOTOGRAPHY]

"First Trip" Photo Album / Scrap Book of Travels in Australia, Pitcairn Island, Tasmania, India, Kashmir, Malay, and more.

V.p.: Jan 1924 -- July 1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
367 [HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961), subject]

Color Photographic Print of an Older Hemingway on the Bridge of His Fishing Boat, the "Pilar."

N.p. , ca. 1950s-1960s, though print is later, ca. 1990s-2000s, based on the backprint of the paper USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 96.00
368

Archive of Over 100 Black and White Photos of Mexican Village Scenes.

ca. 1930s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
369 WEXLER, Glen.

The 80s Portrait Sessions.

N.p. 2019 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 270.00
370 [PHOTOPLAYS]

Trio of Photoplay Editions in Dust Jackets.

V.p. , ca. 1930s-1940s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
371 PAGES, [Pierre Marie]

Voyages Autour du Monde, et Vers les Deux Poles, par Telle et par Mer...

Berne and Lucerne 1783 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 210.00
372 [SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946), association]

Pair of Signed Modern First Editions of Reference Books, including: ROSS, Chet. The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912 -- A Bibliography.

Santa Monica CA 2010 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
373 [SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922), association.] [SMITH, W. Campbell, editor]

Report on the Geological Collections made during the Voyage of the "Quest" On the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the South Atlantic & Weddell Sea in 1921-1922.

London 1930 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
374 SHACKLETON, Ernest (1874-1922).

21 Meilen vom Sudpol. Die Geschichte der britischen Sudpol-Expedition 1907/09. Mit einer Beschreibung der Reise zum magnetischen Sudpol von Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David. Ubersetzt und bearbeitet von Frederick Becker. Band 1-2.

Berlin 1910 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
375 LYON, Captain G. F.

The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon of H. M. S. Hecla, During the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry.

London 1824 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 390.00
376 MCCLINTOCK, Captain F. L.

The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions.

Boston 1860 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
377 [LEE, Mrs. H. A., compiler]

Homemade, Bound Polar Compilation from Harper's, Scribner's and McClure's Magazines

ca.1890s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 300.00
378 OSORIO, Bishop Jerome.

The History of the Portuguese, During the Reign of Emmanuel... Now First Translated into English by James Gibbs.

London 1702 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.