Potter and Potter Auctions: Photography, Americana & Historical Memorabilia, 1229, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026

Page Size: 388 items in 16 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
354	Collection of 15 Harper's Weekly Winslow Homer Prints. 1859 -- 1874.		1859 -- 1874.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
355	Collection of nine 19th century newspapers. 1800 -- 1896.		1800 -- 1896.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
356	Collection of 26 Cigarette Silks and Cigar Flannels.		Circa early 20th century.	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 156.25
357	Group of Religious and Celebratory Silk Woven Bookmarks			USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
358	Pair of Silk Woven Bookmarks Commemorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and another			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
359	Large Collection of Paper Americana.		Circa 19th/20th century.	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 187.50
360	[LETTERHEADS]. Collection of Gun, Ammunition, Tobacco, Oyster, and Other Letterheads and Correspondence.		1869-1933.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 375.00
361	[LETTERHEADS]. Collection of Miscellaneous Letterheads. 1864 -- 1942.		1864 -- 1942.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 406.25
362	[LETTERHEADS]. Collection of Smith & Wesson Correspondence. 1924 -- 1929.		1924 -- 1929.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 218.75
363	[VALENTINES]. Group of over 20 Victorian and antique Valentine's cards.			USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
364	Collection of 21 Vintage Greeting Cards, 9 Large Die Cut. Circa late 19th -- early 20th Century.		Circa late 19th -- early 20th Century.	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 218.75
365	[CHRISTMAS]. Collection of ephemera. Circa late 19th -- early 20th century.		Circa late 19th -- early 20th century.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 1,625.00
367	[ADVERTISING]. Collection of Over 120 Advertising Trade Cards, Booklets, and Labels, Along with a Mandeville & King Wooden Seed Box.		Circa early 20th century.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
368	[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Hand-Colored Daguerreotype of a Young Woman. 19th century.		19th century.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 250.00
369	[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 3 cased images. 19th century		19th century	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 281.25
370	[PARIS]. Ansichten don Paris (Views of Paris). Group of 72 silver print photographs. 19th century.		19th century.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
372	[STEREOSCOPIC CARDS]. Large Collection of Nearly 500 Stereoscopic Cards, Plus Viewer.	V.p.	late 19th -- early 20th century.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 531.25
373	Four Issues of The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser.	Philadelphia	1768 -- 1769	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 343.75
375	Pair of Allen & Ginter's Tobacco Card Albums: "Flags of All Nations and Flags of the States and Territories of the United States of America" and "Album of Quadrupeds."	Richmond, VA	ca. 1888.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 250.00
376	Pair of Newspapers from Late 1960s.		Late 1960s.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
377	Six Leslie's Weekly Publications. 1901 -- 1918. Five are from the end of WWI		1901 -- 1918	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 156.25
378	Pair of Wm. S. Kimball & Co. Tobacco Card Albums: "Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans" and "Dancing Girls of the World."	Rochester, NY	ca. 1889.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
379	[COVERS]. Group of Over 100 Fancy Star Cover Cancellations.		Circa 1870s/1890s.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 937.50
380	[COVERS]. Collection of Late-19th -- Early-20th Century Covers.		Late-19th -- Early-20th Century	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,500.00
382	Trio of W. Duke, Sons & Co. Tobacco Card Albums: "Costumes of All Nations," "Governors, Coats of Arms, and Interesting Features of the States and Territories of Our Country," and "Yacht Colors of the World."	Durham, NC	1888/1889.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 500.00

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

Forum Auctions
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
Forum Auctions
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.

Forum Auctions
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.