Potter and Potter Auctions: Puzzles, Games, & Playing Cards, 21926, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2026 - February 19, 2026

Page Size: 326 items in 14 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
352		Satinwood Tangram Set with Pictorial Cards	[German]	[ca. 1830s]	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 312.50
353		Collection of Richter Anchor (Anker) Stone Tangram Puzzle Sets	Germany	1890s--1900s	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
354		Six Richter Anchor (Anker) Stone Tangram Puzzle Sets	Germany	1890s--1900s	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
355		The Star Puzzle / Anchor (Anker) Stone Tangram Set (2)	Germany	1890s--1900s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 156.25
356		Hand-Illustrated Notebook with Solutions to the Anchor Puzzle		Early 20th century	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 100.00
357		McLoughlin Bros Japanese Puzzle	New York	ca. 1880s	USD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
358		Four Square Tangram Sets		(ca. 1960)	USD 150.00 - 350.00	USD 100.00
380		[PEEPSHOW]. Optique No. 10 Les Tuileries	France	ca. 1835	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 812.50
381		[PEEPSHOW]. Panorama der Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung (Panorama of the Berlin Industrial Exhibition)	Berlin	ca. 1896	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 500.00
382		[PEEPSHOW]. "World of Tomorrow" 1939 New York World's Fair Peepshow	New York	ca. 1939	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
383		[PHOTOGRAPHY]. Group of 3 antique sports photographs		N/A	USD 125.00 - 225.00	USD 500.00
384	GARDNER, Martin (1915 -- 2010)	Collection of Works on Science, Puzzles, Recreational Math		1940s -- 2000s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 281.25
385		[PUZZLES & RECREATIONAL MATH]. Collection of Works on Puzzles, Riddles, and Recreational Math		1930s -- 2000s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
386		[ORIGAMI]. Collection of Books on Origami and Paper Folding		1940 -- 2000s	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 100.00
387		[RIDDLES & AMUSEMENTS]. Collection of Fifteen Victorian and Later Works on Games, Pastimes, Puzzles, and Riddles		1870s -- 1910s	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 343.75
388		Group of English and American Dexterity Puzzles		1910s -- 50s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 500.00
389		Over 20 Victorian French Puzzles and Games	Paris	1880s -- 1900s	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 406.25
401		[ORIGAMI]. Victorian Album of Folding Paper and Origami Samples		Circa 1890	USD 600.00 - 1,200.00	USD 406.25
404		Gathering for Gardner 1 -- 4 Ephemera and Gift Exchange Archive		1990s -- 2000s	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 468.75
405		Gathering for Gardner 5 (G4G5) Gift Exchange Archive		2002	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 281.25
406		Gathering for Gardner 6 (G4G6) Gift Exchange Archive		2004	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 437.50
407		Gathering for Gardner 7 (G4G7) Gift Exchange Archive		2006	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
408		Gathering for Gardner 8 (G4G8) Gift Exchange Archive		2008	USD 250.00 - 500.00	USD 218.75
409		Gathering for Gardner 9 (G4G9) Gift Exchange Archive		2010	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 250.00
410		Gathering for Gardner 10 (G4G10) Gift Exchange Archive		2012	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 156.25

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.