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
111		[LINCOLN, Abraham]. Albany Times and Courier reports Lincoln en route to Inauguration, plus an ad and article for John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's eventual assassin.	Albany, NY	7 March 1861.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 625.00
113	[BUTTRE, J. C. , engraver].	[BUTTRE, J. C. , engraver]. The Lincoln Family in 1861.	New York	1873	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
114		[CIVIL WAR -- PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 19 CDVs and picture cards.		Circa 1860s.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,000.00
115	[CIVIL WAR DIARY]. PATTERSON, Captain Alva Gabriel	[CIVIL WAR DIARY]. PATTERSON, Captain Alva Gabriel. Manuscript Diary of Captain Alva Patterson of the 15th Indiana Infantry with First-Hand Accounts of the Battle of Shiloh and Other Engagements.			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
116	[CIVIL WAR]. LAWLER, David F.	[CIVIL WAR]. LAWLER, David F. An Archive of Pvt. David Lawler, Company B of the 73rd Regiment of the Illinois State Volunteers. [Illinois, ca. 1860s-90s].	Illinois	ca. 1860s-90s.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 531.25
117		[CIVIL WAR]. Collection of over 30 titles. Including: JOHNSON, Rossiter. Campfire and Battlefield: An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War.	New York	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 343.75
118		[CIVIL WAR]. Group of approximately 75 Civil War history titles.	V.p.	ca. 20th century.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
119	[CIVIL WAR]. MCPHERSON, James Bird Brigadier General	[CIVIL WAR]. MCPHERSON, James Bird Brigadier General. Signed Corps of Engineers Rail Road Employees Roster and Pay Record.	Corinth, Mississippi, July	1862	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 406.25
120		[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. The Connecticut Journal. April 10, 1776.	New Haven	1776	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 375.00
121		[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Battle orders for the 1st Battalion, commanded by Capt. Goulding.	N.p,	n.d.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,375.00
122		[WORLD WAR I]. French broadside announcing armistice ending World War I.	St. Nazaire	1918	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 312.50
123		[WWII -- PACIFIC THEATER]. Collection of maps, booklets, and ephemera.		Circa 1940s.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 250.00
124	ROCKWELL, Norman	ROCKWELL, Norman. The Four Freedoms.		1943	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 312.50
130		Collection of Soviet Union badges.		20th century.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
132		[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 46 CDVs of soldiers, sailors, and servicemen.	V.p. American and European	ca. 1860s-90s.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 312.50
133	SALISBURY, Frank O.	SALISBURY, Frank O. Boy Cornwell, V.C., at the Battle of Jutland, 1916.			USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
134	CHURCHILL, Winston.	CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War. Chartwell Edition.	Boston	1983	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 156.25
135	NIMITZ, Chester W.	NIMITZ, Chester W. Signed Time Magazine cover. Cover of the Feb. 26, 1945		1945	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 500.00
136		[V-J DAY -- WORLD WAR II]. Times Square V-J Day Kiss signed photograph.			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 187.50
137		[SHEET MUSIC]. Large lot of sheet music, some World War related.	American,	bulk 1910s	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
138		[PERIODICALS]. Group of World War I and II French publications.		1910s-50s.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 156.25
139	[HOLOCAUST]. HARMON, Jeff B. , text; and Richard Reisen , photographer.	[HOLOCAUST]. HARMON, Jeff B. , text; and Richard Reisen , photographer. A Time Machine Jew in Auschwitz. 35 black and white silver gelatin matted prints with didactic text.			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
140		Embroidered Pictorial Souvenir of an American Sailor's Cruise in the Philippine Islands.		Circa 1920s.	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 156.25
141		Patriotic Order Sons of America Ribbon Pin.		1893	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 187.50
142		WWI American Flag "Remember Me" Silk Handkerchief Pouch.		Circa 1914-1918.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50

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.