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
78		[CIVIL WAR -- SHEET MUSIC]. Group of 8 pieces. Includes: General Sweeny's Grand March. Dedicated to Brigr. Genl. Thomas W. Sweeny.			USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 468.75
79	GETTYS, James	[GETTYSBURGH]. GETTYS, James. Document signed by the founder of Gettysburg. Addams County,			USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 281.25
80		[CIVIL WAR -- UNION]. Group of 9 autographs. 19th century.	19th century.		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 437.50
81	LEE, Fitzhugh	LEE, Fitzhugh. Autograph letter signed.	Alexandria, VA	1885	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 312.50
82	COWLES, Calvin	COWLES, Calvin. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.	Washington	1891 -- 95.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 562.50
83	GERRY, H.E.	GERRY, H.E. Camp Fire Entertainment and True History of R.H. Hendershot the Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock.	Np,	nd ca. 1900	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 75.00
84		[KURZ & ALLISON]. Full Rank - Major Generals of the United States Army - Civil War 1861-65.	Chicago	1887	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 2,750.00
85		[KURZ & ALLISON]. Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimac.	Chicago	1889	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,000.00
90		Group of 8 Confederate bills. Including: an 1864 $100 CSA bill, two pieces of North Carolina Confederate currency			USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 343.75
95		[CIVIL WAR]. Letter from Union Sailor to Parents. May 13, 1862.		1862	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 187.50
96		[CIVIL WAR]. Collection of Over 65 Civil War Patriotic Covers by Charles Magnus.	New York	ca. 1861--1865.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,125.00
97		Seven framed Harper's Weekly and other Civil War prints, and others loose.			USD 125.00 - 175.00	USD 156.25
98		John Wilkes Booth CDV. Photograph,			USD 125.00 - 175.00	USD 156.25
99	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. Collection of Abraham Lincoln related ephemera. Including the Buffalo, NY, Weekly Express from Monday April 17, 1865,			USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 531.25
100	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. Collection of over 30 pieces of Lincoln related ephemera.			USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 187.50
101	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. Framed Abraham Lincoln Signature and Engraved Portrait.		1864	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 11,875.00
102	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. 1864 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign Badge.			USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 312.50
103	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. NAST, Thomas	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. NAST, Thomas. Lincoln Entering Richmond.	New York	1868	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 437.50
104	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. Press & Tribune Documents for 1860. No. 8. Proceedings of The National Republican Convention, Held at Chicago, May 16th, 17th & 18th 1860.		1860	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 562.50
105	[LINCOLN, Abraham	[LINCOLN, Abraham ]. Three Union Presidential Tickets. 1864.		1864	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,000.00
106		[LINCOLN, Abraham]. Album of 14 CDVs. 1860s.		1860s.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 531.25
107		[LINCOLN, Abraham]. Group of CDVs. Circa 1860s.		Circa 1860s.	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 2,750.00
108		[LINCOLN, Abraham]. Group of 4 newspapers and sheet music. Including: President Lincoln: A Funeral March			USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 125.00
109	[LINCOLN, Abraham , subject].	[LINCOLN, Abraham , subject]. Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation, at the White House 1865. Dedicated to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, by the Publisher of Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner. [New York: Lith. of Major and Knapp for Frank Leslie's Chimney			USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 312.50
110	[LINCOLN, Abraham]. BANCROFT, George.	[LINCOLN, Abraham]. BANCROFT, George. Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, delivered, at the request of both houses of the Congress of America, before them, in the House of Representatives, at Washington, on the 12th of February	Washington	1866	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold

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.