Potter and Potter Auctions: Online Only Fine Books Sale, 1228, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 479 | Group of 10 19th Century Pamphlets About Famous Crimes and Trials. |
V.p. | ca. 19th century | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 480 | BRUCE, J. Campbell. | A Farewell to the Rock. Escape from Alcatraz. |
New York | 1963 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 150.00 |
| 481 | REYNOLDS, John. | The Triumphs of Gods Revenge Against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of (Wilful and Premeditated) Murther... |
London | 1657 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 450.00 |
| 482 | TRUMAN, Harry S. | Memoirs by Harry S. Truman Year of Decisions; Years of Trial and Hope. |
New York | 1955-1956, though later | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 483 | TWAIN, Mark. | Life on the Mississippi |
. Boston | 1883 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 484 | VERNE, Jules. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. |
New York | 1917 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 485 | VERNE, Jules. | Group of 5 Early American Editions |
. V.p. | ca. 19th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 570.00 |
| 486 | VERNE, Jules. | Group of 5 Early French Editions in Beautiful Hetzel or Hachette Bindings. |
Paris | 19th century | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,140.00 |
| 487 | VERNEUIL, Albert and Maurice. | Kaleidoscope: Ornaments Abstraits. |
Paris | n.d., ca. 1920 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 488 | BRASSEY, Mrs. [Annie] | A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months... |
London | 1878 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 489 | WINTERBOTHAM, W. | An Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire... |
London | 1795 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 490 | ROBERTS, Edmund. | Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat; in the U. S. Sloop-of-War Peacock... |
New York | 1837 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 510.00 |
| 491 | COLTMAN, Jr., Dr. Robert. | Beleagured in Peking ("The Yellow Crime".) The Boxer's War Against the Foreigner. |
Philadelphia | 1901 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 492 | HOLDERNESS, Mary. | Notes Relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tartars; Written During a Four Years' Residence Among That People. |
London | 1821 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 493 | DAMPIER, Captain William. | A Voyage to New Holland, &c. In the Year 1699... Vol. III [only] |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 900.00 | ||
| 494 | HAYDEN, Sterling. | Wanderer. |
New York | 1963, 8vo | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 495 | HEDIN, Sven. | Pair of First American Editions in 4 Volumes. |
V.p. | 1899-1909 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 496 | HENRY, Teuira. | Ancient Tahiti. |
Honolulu HI | 1928 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 497 | HAWKS, Francis L. | Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan... Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy... |
New York | 1856 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 498 | MERCATOR-HONDIUS ATLAS. THROWER, Norman J. W. | A Leaf from the Mercator-Hondius World Atlas Edition of 1619... |
Fullerton Ca: | 1985 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 499 | KRUSINSKI, Father [Judasz] | The History of the Revolution of Persia... |
London | 1728 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 500 | MAZELLIER, Philippe, DALLET, Jean-Marie, DANIELSSON, Bengt. | Le Memorial Polynesien. |
Taiwan | 1977-1980 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 501 | [LONDON, Jack, subject] JOHNSON, Martin. | Through the South Seas With Jack London. |
New York | 1913 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 502 | TAUBMAN, Rev. Nathaniel. | Memoirs of the British Fleets and Squadrons in the Mediterranean, Anno 1708 and 1709. |
London | 1710 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 503 | [HERRERA, Antonio, et al.] | Vier Verscheyde Scheeps-Togten... [And:] De Gedenkwaardige en al-om Beromde Voyagien der Spanjaarden na West-Indien... [And:] ... |
Leyden | ca. 1700s | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 210.00 |
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Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026Forum, 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]. £20,000-30,000Forum, 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]. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
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26th March 2026Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000Forum, 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 2026Forum, 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 2026Forum, 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 2026Forum, 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.