Potter and Potter Auctions: Literature and Legerdemain, 22201, Chicago

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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 28, 2026 - February 28, 2026
Page Size: 424 items in 17 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
400 [CHRISTOPHER, Maurine (1920-2013), ed]

[THURSTON]. Howard Thurston's Illusion Show Work Books

Pasadena [1991-1992] USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,000.00
401 VERNON, Dai (1894 -- 1992)

Revelation

Pasadena 2008 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
402 GANSON, Lewis (1913-1980)

[VERNON]. The Essential Dai Vernon

Tahoma, CA 2009 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
403 MINCH, Stephen et al.

[VERNON]. The Vernon Chronicles

[Lake Tahoe, CA] [1987-1992] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 218.75
404 GANSON, Lewis

[VERNON]. Trio of Titles About Dai Vernon

[Tahoma, CA] [1994-1996] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 218.75
405 WALTON, Roy (1932-2020)

The Complete Walton -- Volumes I -- III

[V.p.] [1986-2016] USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
406 WEBER, Michael (b. 1961)

Collection of Weber Lecture Notes, Tricks, and Publications

1990s -- 2020s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,187.50
407 WORTHINGTON, Thomas Chew (1882 -- 1953)

Recollections of Howard Thurston

Baltimore 1938 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
408

Yankee Magic Collector. Ed Hill, Bob Schoof, et al

(Jun. 1983) USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
409 ZANCIG, Julius and Agnes

Zancig's New Complete Palmistry

Chicago -1902 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 187.50
410 ZIMMERMAN, Diana and Robert Gould

Siegfried & Roy: Unique in All the World

Los Angeles 2010 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 937.50
411

[MAGIC -- INSTRUCTIONAL] Twenty-Three Books of Magic Tricks in Original Bindings

[V.p.] [ca. 19th -- early 20th centuries] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
412

[MAGIC -- INSTRUCTIONAL] Group of 35 Magic Trick Booklets or Pamphlets

[V.p.] [ca. 20th century] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 218.75
413

[MAGIC -- INSTRUCTIONAL] Nearly 100 Magic Trick Booklets or Pamphlets

[V.p.] [ca. 20th century] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
414

[MAGIC -- INSTRUCTIONAL] Twenty Four Modern Books of Magic Tricks by Magicians

[V.p.] [ca. 20th -- 21st centuries] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 437.50
415

[MAGIC -- GENERAL PUBLIC] Nearly 80 Books on Magic and Magicians for the General Public

[V.p.] [ca. 20th- 21st centuries] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
416

[MAGIC -- HISTORY] Group of Nearly 30 Books on History of Magic and Biographies of Magicians

[V.p.] [ca. 20th- 21st centuries] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
417

[MAGIC - HISTORY]. Four Biographies from the Magical Pro-Files Series

Pasadena, CA [1986-1993] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
418

[MAGIC -- PERIODICALS] Four Runs of Magic Magazines

2009 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
419

[MAGIC - FICTION]. Pair of Fictional Titles with Magical Subjects, including: GREENWOOD, James. Silas Horner's Adventures, or, The Captive Conjurers

London [ca. 1880] USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
420

[MAGICIAN-OWNED BOOKS]. Trio of Titles Owned by Magicians, including: OVETTE, Joseph. Practical Telepathy...

Chicago 1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
421

[HYPNOTISM]. Pair of Titles About Hypnotism, including: COOK, Wm.- Wesley. Practical Lessons in Hypnotism

Chicago [1900] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 343.75
422 Todd Karr, editor

[THE MIRACLE FACTORY]. Trio of First Editions, including: The Secret Ways of Al Baker

Seattle [2003] USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 375.00
423 Todd Karr, editor

[THE MIRACLE FACTORY]. Trio of First Editions, including: Essential Robert-Houdin

Los Angeles [2006] USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 406.25
  • 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.