Potter and Potter Auctions: Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia, 1229, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 298 | BAKER, Josephine; Marcel Sauvage. | BAKER, Josephine; Marcel Sauvage. Les Memoires de Josephine Baker. Neuvieme edition. |
Paris | 1927 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 299 | [COMICS]. Friday Foster #1. |
1972 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 312.50 | ||
| 300 | BARAKA, Amiri | BARAKA, Amiri. Later Trane. Later Trane. The Razor Series No. 1. |
Candia, NH | 2003 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 301 | SLOAN, James Blanding. | SLOAN, James Blanding. Clarence Muse at Home. |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 302 | [BLAXPLOITATION]. Coffy. American International, 1973. |
1973 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 156.25 | ||
| 303 | The Color Purple |
1985 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 125.00 | ||
| 304 | Native Son. |
Classic Pictures | 1951 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 100.00 | |
| 305 | BEAVERS, Louise | BEAVERS, Louise. Group of 20 film stills. |
Circa 1930s-50s. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 307 | [MINSTRELS]. Group of 8 photographs of a minstrel troupe. |
St. Paul, MN | 1890s. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 343.75 | |
| 308 | [BLACK AMERICANA]. Group of 22 pieces of sheet music. |
bulk early 20th century | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 312.50 | ||
| 310 | [LOUIS, Joe]. | [LOUIS, Joe]. The Fight that Never Ends. Seven lobby cards. |
Alexander Releasing Corp. | 1949 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 311 | [ARMSTRONG, Louis]. | [ARMSTRONG, Louis]. Satchmo the Great. Set of 8 lobby cards. |
United Artists | 1957 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 312 | [JORDAN, Louis]. | [JORDAN, Louis]. Four stills from musical shorts. |
1940s. | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 313 | [BLACK FILMS]. Group of 6 stills and a lobby card to five different films. Including: a photograph lobby card for The Bull-Dogger |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 | |||
| 314 | The Harlem Globetrotters. Columbia, R-1957. Complete set of 8 lobby cards for the sports film, |
Columbia, | R-1957 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 343.75 | |
| 315 | Shaft. One-sheet (with a lobby card) |
MGM | 1971 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 218.75 | |
| 316 | [BLAXPLOITATION]. Group of 13 one-sheet film posters. |
1970s | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 500.00 | ||
| 317 | [ANTI-WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE]. Reject the Susan B. Anthony Amendment / Woman Suffrage in Action! |
Raleigh | ca. 1920. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 312.50 | |
| 318 | [CUBAN REVOLUTION]. Group of 13 photographs and two pieces of ephemera. |
Circa 1960s-2000s. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 319 | [DAYS OF RAGE]. Over 30 photographs of the protests in Chicago. |
Chicago | 1969 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,000.00 | |
| 320 | [MUGSHOTS]. Group of over 300 American mugshots. |
V.p. | ca. 1930s-70s. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,125.00 | |
| 321 | [MUGSHOTS -- PHILADELPHIA]. Archive of over 200 mugshots of African American men. |
Philadelphia | ca. 1960-64. | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 593.75 | |
| 322 | [MUGSHOTS -- PHILADELPHIA]. Archive of over 200 mugshots of Caucasian men. |
Philadelphia | ca. 1960-64. | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 323 | [JACK THE RIPPER]. Six issues of the Northampton Daily Chronicle reporting on the Whitechapel murders. |
Northampton | 1888 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 | |
| 324 | Pair of antique wanted broadsides. |
Circa early 20th century. | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 187.50 |
-
-
Forum Auctions
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
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
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 -
Forum Auctions
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.