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	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
410		Ephemera scrapbook in an 1850s ledger book. Ledger from 1850s, with 19th and 20th century scrapbook elements		1850s, 19th and 20th century	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
411		[NAVAL COVERS]. Album of American naval covers.	V.p.	ca. 1930s-50s.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
412		[AVIATION]. Two scrapbooks of aircraft photographs, and ephemera.			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 125.00
413		[AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 4 Beken of Cowes Studio Photographs of Marine Aircraft.	England	Beken of Cowes.	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 100.00
414		[AUTOGRAPHS]. Group of 20 Mahogany Tree Club menu cards, signed by Owen Wister, Howard Pyle, etc.	Philadelphia	1890s-1900s.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 562.50
415		Collection of 37 Yellow Kid celluloid pinback buttons.		Circa 1890s.	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 687.50
416	PARRISH, Maxfield	PARRISH, Maxfield. Autograph letter signed ("Maxfield Parrish")	Windsor, VT	26 March 1904,	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 687.50
417	PARRISH, Maxfield	PARRISH, Maxfield. Five signed checks. Windsor, VT: 1933 -- 7. Five Windsor County National Bank checks, each signed by Parrish ("Maxfield Parrish")	Windsor, VT	1933	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 343.75
418	O'NEILL, Rose	O'NEILL, Rose. Autograph Letter, signed by Rose O'Neill, creator of Kewpies. 4 April 1929.		1929	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 343.75
423		Large collection of Playboy magazine. 1960s -- 2000s.		1960s -- 2000s.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 406.25
424		Playboy. Group of 55 issues, mainly 1950s.		1950s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 687.50
425		[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 4 volumes. Including: Samuel Fosso (5 Continents, 2004)			USD 100.00 - 150.00	USD 125.00
426		[MILITARIA]. Group of assorted militaria ephemera and memorabilia.		20th century.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 100.00

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.