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
143		A Bit of American History -- The Flag of Our Own Time		1903	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 312.50
144	KITCHENER, Herbert , 1st Earl Kitchener.	KITCHENER, Herbert , 1st Earl Kitchener. Autograph letter signed.	Dera Ismail	12 January 1903.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 187.50
146		[SALEM WITCH TRIALS]. The Athenian Mercury: Vol. 9 Numb. 6.	London	1692	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 4,000.00
147		The Maryland Gazette, Numb. 457.	Annapolis	1754	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
148		[CURRENCY]. Two pieces of American colonial currency. Including: a Connecticut Two Shillings and Six Pence note, signed in red ink by George Wyllys and Benjamin Payne			USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 750.00
149		[BOSTON TEA PARTY]. Postscript to the Massachusetts Spy, or Thomas's Boston Journal.	Boston	1774	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 3,000.00
150	SIGNOL, Emile. G.H.C.	SIGNOL, Emile. G.H.C. Melody et les Indiens Ioways.	Paris	1845	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
151		[AMERICAN INDIANS]. Did you ever see a genuine Kickapoo Indian? [cover title].	New York	ca. 1880s.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 250.00
152		[CURRENCY]. Fractional currency shield.		19th century.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 4,250.00
153		Acts Passed at the First [Second, Third] Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States: begun and held at the City of Philadelphia...	Philadelphia	1797	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
154		[LIBERTY BELL]. Small archive related to the Andrew McNair family and the Liberty Bell.			USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
155	WILLISTON, E.V. (compiler)	WILLISTON, E.V. (compiler) . The Eloquence of the United States.	Middletown	1827	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
156		[AUTOGRAPHS]. Scrapbook of American political autographs and ephemera.		1870s-80s.	USD 100.00 - 150.00	USD 218.75
157		The Birth Place of Henry Clay, Hanover County, Virginia.	New York, Hartford, Buffalo	19th century.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
158		Group of 1850s North Carolina indictment documents. Rowan County, North Carolina		bulk 1855.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 112.50
159	STOTZ, Christopher Charles	STOTZ, Christopher Charles. Two boudoir card Oklahoma Territory photographs.	El Reno, O.T.	ca. 1890s.	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 406.25
160		[SLAVERY DOCUMENT]. Manuscript estate appraisal with slaves.	Halifax County, Virginia,	22 July 1799.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 812.50
161		[SLAVERY & POLITICS]. Letters to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, and three slavery-related letters.	V.p.,	v.d.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 937.50
162	CODY, William F (Buffalo Bill)	CODY, William F (Buffalo Bill) . Autograph letter signed.	Chemnitz, Germany	1906	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,250.00
163		[MORMON]. "Times and Seasons" including related to Joseph Smith's assassination. Including: Vol. V No 22 issue of Times and Seasons	Nauvoo	1844	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 218.75
164		[MORMON]. Autograph album of Arzella and Ellis Potter.	California, Utah, Wyoming	ca. 1935-42.	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 100.00
165	STUBBS, George Townly , after George Stubbs.	STUBBS, George Townly , after George Stubbs. Brown Horse Mask.	London	1773	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 218.75
167		Cunard Line 1894 Calendar.	London, Belfast & New York	1894	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 468.75
168		[ALASKA]. Group of 21 early Alaska photographs.		Late 19th century.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 281.25
169		[MENUS]. Collection of over 45 menus, most from cruise liners. 1901-1956		. Bulk 1920s-1930s.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 437.50

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.