Potomack Company: Books, Maps and Historical Memorabilia, 21226, Alexandria

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 12, 2026 - February 12, 2026

Page Size: 89 items in 4 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH AS PRESIDENT TO MOLLIE DORF, SECRETARY TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT			USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 715.00
2	ANDREW ELLICOTT	ANDREW ELLICOTT'S PLAN OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON 21.5 x 30 in			USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 10,400.00
3		THE WASHINGTON GUIDE.	WASHINGTON CITY	1837	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 357.50
4	MARSHALL, JOHN.	MARSHALL, JOHN. OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES... IN THE CASE OF SAMUEL A. WORCESTER VS THE STATE OF GEORGIA.PRESENTATION COPY.	WASHINGTON	1832	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 715.00
5	ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; MOLLIE D. SOMERVILLE	ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WHITE HOUSE: PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF SECRETARY MOLLIE D. SOMERVILLE			USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 5,525.00
6	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL & FORMAL WHITE HOUSE MATERIAL, 1930S-1940S		1930S-1940S	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,560.00
7	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT	FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT -- GROUP OF THREE SIGNED CARDS INCLUDING WHITE HOUSE AND NEW YORK EXECUTIVE MANSION STATIONERY			USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 910.00
8	MOLLIE D. SOMERVILLE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT	THE MOLLIE D. SOMERVILLE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT RESEARCH ARCHIVE			USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 6,175.00
9	HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON	HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TLS AS FIRST LADY TO ROOSEVELT SECRETARY MOLLIE D. SOMERVILLE: "IF YOU EVER WANT TO VISIT YOUR FORMER HAUNTS, I WOULD LIKE TO HOST YOU," AUGUST 7, 1995		1995	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 227.50
10	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN	COLLECTION OF THE FAMILIAR LETTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED			USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 292.50
10A	Craige, John H.	CANNIBAL COUSINS. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.	New York	1934	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 292.50
15		WATERGATE -- GROUP OF TWELVE SIGNED BOOKS, INCLUDING RICHARD NIXON			USD 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
16	ANDREW JACKSON	MEMOIRS OF ANDREW JACKSON, MAJOR-GENERAL IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES	Hartford	1819	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 78.00
17		TRAU KEINEM FUCHS AUF GRUNER HEID UND KEINEM JUD BEI SEINEM EID	Nuremberg	[c. 1938]	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,690.00
18		EASTON AND FRANKLIN LEATHER EDITIONS, CLASSIC AMERICAN & WORLD LITERATURE, 10 VOLS			USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 292.50
19	Walton, [Izaak]; Browne, Moses.	THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR CONTEMPLATIVE'S MAN RECREATION, 1759.	London	[1759].	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 520.00
20	TOM LAMB	RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT BY TOM LAMB, 1992, FROM THE ESTATE OF GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL Frame: 13 x 21 1/2 in. (33.02 x 54.61 cm.)		1992	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 715.00
21		EASTON PRESS LEATHER EDITIONS: EARLY AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT, 10 VOLS			USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 292.50
22		FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER EDITIONS: PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS. 4 VOLS.			USD 80.00 - 120.00	USD 65.00
23		EASTON PRESS LEATHER EDITIONS: THE CIVIL WAR & LINCOLN, 4 VOLS			USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
24		EASTON PRESS FINE BINDINGS FROM 100 GREATEST BOOKS SERIES; INCLUDES TRISTAM SHANDY, THE RED AND THE BLACK, THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON, TWO PLAYS BY MOLIERE, THE TALES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 91.00
25		GROUP OF FINE BINDINGS INCLUDING EASTON AND FRANKLIN LIBRARY, FROM GREATEST BOOKS SERIES; CANDIDE BY VOLTAIRE, THE ORESTEIA BY AESCHYLUS, THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADRAMS, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY HENRY JAMES AND DIOLOGUES			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 130.00
26	BENJAMIN AND DEBORAH ALTERMAN.	BILLY BUDD SAILOR: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE. SIGNED BY BENJAMIN AND DEBORAH ALTERMAN. LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED 65 OF 185 COPIES	(MOUNT HOLLY)	1987	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 910.00
27		ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. ELEVENTH EDITION, 1910-1911, 28 VOLS (A-Z)		1910-1911	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
28		MEMORIAL BOOK OF THE SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDING OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY AND OF THE CEREMONIES INAUGURATING PRINCETON UNIVERSITY			USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 227.50

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.