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
170		[PICTORIAL MAPS]. Group of 11 maps. Including: ANNAND, George. Authorized Map of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. 1934.			USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 156.25
171		Italian geographical manuscript, with California as an island.	Italian	ca. early or mid- 18th century.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
172		[AVIATION MAP]. Crociera Aerea del Decennale vollo in massa Rome-Chicago-New York-Roma.	Italy	ca. 1932-33.	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
173		[CUBA]. Mapa de la Isla de Cuba y plano de la Habana. Two stone lithograph folding pocket maps of Cuba and Havana,		1853	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 500.00
174		[TRAVEL GUIDE]. Phelps's Travellers Guide Through the United States.	New York	1849	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
175		[RAILROADIANA]. Collection of 66 stock certificates, many Philadelphia. American, ca. 1840s-1950s	Philadelphia. American	ca. 1840s-1950s	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 406.25
176		[STOCKS]. Group of 25 railway stocks and bonds. Circa 19th -- 20th century.		Circa 19th -- 20th century.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
177		[TITANIC]. Stock certificate signed by George Dunton Widener. 28 January 1895.		28 January 1895.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
178		[RAILROADIANA/TRANSPORTATION]. Collection of American Railroad and Steamer Passes. 1856 -- 1936.		1856 -- 1936.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,625.00
179		[RAILROADIANA] Large Collection of Railroad Ephemera. 19th and 20th century.		19th and 20th century.	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 812.50
180		[SHIPPING DOCUMENTS]. Pair of shipping documents for vessels in the Caribbean. Circa 1860s.		Circa 1860s.	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
181		[CURRENCY]. Cuban stock certificate for 400 escudos.	Havana	10 December 1865.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 125.00
182		[RAILROADIANA]. American Railroad Journal and Advocate of Internal Improvements, two.	New York.	1833, 1834	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 125.00
183		[CIVIL WAR ERA]. [RAILROADIANA]. Atlantic and Great Western Broad Gauge Railway.	Cleveland	1864-1865	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
184		[RAILROADIANA]. Group of 10 "Tintorette" railway scene prints by Dean & Son.	London	ca. 1840s-50s.	USD 500.00 - 750.00	USD 312.50
185		[RAILROADIANA]. Group of 3 early prints. Including: HAVELL, Robert , after Edward Calvert. View of the Manchester & Liverpool Railway, taken at Newton. 1825.		1825	USD 250.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
186		[LITHOGRAPHY]. Collection of over 100 Charles Magnus Lithographic Prints of America, several hand-colored.	New York	ca. mid-19th century	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 625.00
187		[MAP]. Gray's Aero View of the Panama Canal.	New York	ca. 1912.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 62.50
188		[MAPS]. Group of 15 Maps Engraved to Illustrate Michell's New Intermediate Geography.		Circa second half of 19th century.	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 100.00
189		Pair of Aerial Views of Philadelphia. Including "The Philadelphia of To-Day: The World's Greatest Workshop."	Philadelphia	1908	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
190		[NASA]. Flag and Patch Presentation Frame from the Space Shuttle Discovery, First Satellite Recovery Mission, STS		1984	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 531.25
192	THOMPSON, George W. and John A.	THOMPSON, George W. and John A. [CHICAGO -- PRE-FIRE IMPRINT]. The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Chicago,		1856	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 375.00
193	[CHICAGO]. VARIN, Raoul	[CHICAGO]. VARIN, Raoul. Chicago in 1833.	Chicago	1928	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 218.75
194		[CHICAGO]. An Ordinance relating to the Department of Buildings and Governing the Erection of Buildings, etc. in City of Chicago.	Chicago	1905	USD 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
195		[LAKESIDE PRESS]. A group of 50 volumes from The Lakeside Classics.	Chicago	v.d. ca. 1960s-80s	USD 150.00 - 250.00	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.