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
26	ROGERS, Horatio.	Mary Dyer of Rhode Island. The Quaker Martyr That Was Hanged on Boston Common, June 1, 1600.	Providence	1896	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
27	RAMSEY, J. G. M.	The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century...	Charleston	1853	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 330.00
28	WALPOLE, Robert.	A Report from the Committee of Secrecy, Appointed by Order of the House of Commons...	London	1715	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
29		Group of 5 19th Century Surveys or Reports.	V.p.	ca.19th century	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
30		Group of 6 Rebound Firsts or Early Editions of 18th Century or 19th Century Titles.	V.p.	ca.1792-1843	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 720.00
31	COXE, Daniel.	A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Called Florida and by the French La Louisane...	St. Louis	1840	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 180.00
32	HOLDITCH, Robert.	The Emigrant's Guide to the United States of America; Containing the Best Advice and Directions Respecting the Voyage -- Preservation of Health, - Choice of Settlement, &c...	London	1818	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 390.00
33	LOSSING, Benson J.	The Pictorial Field-Book of The Revolution.	New York	1859	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 1,140.00
34	[TUCKER, Josiah]	A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Rebellious Colonies and Discarding Them Entirely; Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Gloucester, on the Subject of American Affairs.	Gloucester	1776	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 540.00
35		A Full and Faithful Report of the Debates in Both Houses of Parliament, on Monday the 17th of February and Friday the 21st of February, 1783, on the Articles of Peace.	London	1783	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 540.00
36	[MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE, subject] LEVASSEUR, A.	Lafayette in America, in 1824 and 1825; or, Journal of Travels, in the United States...	New York	1829	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 1,560.00
37	MARTINEAU, Harriet.	Society in America.	London	1837	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 240.00
38		The New York Mirror. Volume XI -- XIV.	New York	1833-1836	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 240.00
39	[MONROE, James, subject] WALDO, S. Putnam.	The Tour of James Monroe, President of the United States, in the Year 1817...	Hartford	1818	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 1,680.00
40	SEYMOUR, E. S.	Sketches of Minnesota, The New England of the West.	New York	1850	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 240.00
41	[NEW ORLEANS]	Norman's New Orleans and Environs: Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana...	New Orleans	1845	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 540.00
42	[BLUNT, Edward March]	The Picture of New-York, and Stranger's Guide to the Commercial Metropolis of the United States.	New York	1828	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 270.00
43	GORDON, Thomas F.	A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey... [Bound with:] The History of New Jersey... Trenton		1834	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 360.00
44	[POST REVOLUTIONARY WAR]	The Commercial Conduct of the United States of America Considered, and The True Interest thereof, Attempted to be Shewn by a Citizen of New-York.	New York	1786	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 660.00
45	MINOT, George Richards.	The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts. In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon.	Boston	1810	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 120.00
46	[PRESIDENTS]	Pair of Modern Firsts by American Presidents, One Inscribed.	V.p.	ca.21st century	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
47	[VICE PRESIDENTS]	Group of 7 Modern Firsts Signed by Vice Presidents.	V.p.	ca.20th -- 21st centuries	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 180.00
48	[FIRST LADIES]	Group of Modern First or Early Editions Signed by First Ladies.	V.p.	ca.20th -- 21st centuries	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 96.00
49	FRASER, Charles.	Reminiscences of Charleston...	Charleston	1854	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 210.00
50	FIDFADDY, Frederick Augustus.	The Adventures of Uncle Sam, in Search After His Lost Honor.	Middletown	1816	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 120.00

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

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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
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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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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.