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
504 WALLACE, David Foster.

Infinite Jest

. Boston 1996 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
505 WALLACE, Lew.

Two Titles in Three Volumes -- One Signed.

V.p. ca.19th century USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
506 [EARP, Wyatt, subject] LAKE, Stuart N.

Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshall.

Boston 1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
507 [EARP, Wyatt, subject] TEFERTILLER, Casey.

Wyatt Earp. The Life Behind the Legend.

New York 1997 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 108.00
508 FERRAL, S. A.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles Through the United States of America.

Londohn 1832 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
509 [HICKOK, Wild Bill, subject] WILSTACH, Frank J. Wild Bill Hickok.

The Prince of Pistoleers.

Garden City 1926 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
510 [CRITTENDEN, Thomas T., subject] [CRITTENDEN, H. H., compiler]

The Crittenden Memoirs.

New York 1936 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 420.00
511 [CARSON, Kit, subject] PETERS, Dewitt C.

Kit Carson's Life and Adventures...

Hartford 1874 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
512 SWARTHOUT, Glendon.

Pair of First Trade Editions.

V.p. ca. 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
513 WHITE, T. H.

The Sword in the Stone.

New York 1939 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
514 BOGUET, Henry.

An Examen of Witches Drawn from Various Trials...

London: 1929 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 360.00
515

Pair of First or Early Editions About the Japanese Occupation of Nanking

. V.p. ca. 20th century USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 450.00
516

Pair of First or Early Editions About the Japanese Occupation of China

. V.p. ca. 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
517 [WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948) and WRIGHT, Wilbur (1867-1912)]

Section of a Blueprint for the 1903 Wright Flyer.

ca. 1940s USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 780.00
518 [GROSS, S[amuel], artist]

Bawdy Original Artwork for National Lampoon Magazine.

New York 1976-06-01 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
519 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Signed Christmas Card and Related Archive.

V.p. ca.1954-1992, including USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
520 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Autograph Letter Signed to His Son. Finca Vicia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba [and in Hemingway's hand

"on board 'Pilar' off Mulatta". March 19 1956 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,400.00
521 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Autograph Letter to His Son, Gregory ("Gig"). P. O. Box 555 Ketchum, Idaho,

Feb 15 1961 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 900.00
522 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Autograph Letter Signed to His Friend, Bill Davis. Finca Vicia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba

November 9 1959 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,800.00
523 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Warmly Inscribed Christmas Card to His Mother, with Original Envelope.

Key West Fl 1935 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
524 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Typed Letter Signed to His Friend and Typist, Jane Armstrong.

N.p. n.d USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,160.00
525 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Typed Letter Signed to His Friend, Screenwriter and Novelist, Peter Viertel.

Finca Vicia San Francisco de Paula Cuba Nov. 12 1951 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
526 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Typed Letter Signed to His Brother, Leicester (nicknamed "Baron").

Sun Valley Idaho Nov. 2 1956 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
527 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Hemingway Sample Signature Sheet, with all 5 Signature Examples in His Hand.

N.p. ca.October 1949 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,600.00
528 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).

Trio of Original Telegrams from Hemingway to Esquire Editor / Publisher of Esquire Magazine, Arnold Gingrich (1903-1976).

Key West FL via Chicago IL 1936 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 360.00
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    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.
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    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.