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Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Fine Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 173,472.00
Auction Date February 02, 2019 - February 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 138,590.00
Sale Number #68 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 213,240.00
Total Lots 786
Sold Lots 559 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 243,550.00
% of Lots Sold 71.12% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 367,265.00
Unsold Lots 227 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8 Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Frank Lloyd Wright. Signed Original Floor Plan for the Louis Frederick House.

1956/57. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,800.00
697

X-Men No. 1.

1963 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,360.00
647

Incredible Hulk No. 181.

1974 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,880.00
747 Gibson, Walter.

Super Magician [Super-Magic] Comics. 56 Issues.

1940s. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,880.00
230 Bukowski, Charles.

South of No North.

1973 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,280.00
244 Huxley, Aldous.

Brave New World

1932 USD 2,600.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,280.00
382 Cocteau, Jean.

Cocteau Plate. "La Sibylle," 1958.

1958 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
38

Wooden Column from the Marshall Field & Company Building.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,920.00
264 [Dignimont, Andre] Wilde, Oscar.

Ballade de la Geole de Reading.

1942 USD 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 USD 1,920.00
622

Brick Bradford No. 6.

1948 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,920.00
10 Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater Side Elevation Blueprint.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,600.00 USD 1,800.00
298 Musset, Paul de (illus.

The Last Abbe.

ca. 1895 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,800.00
610

The Amazing Spider-Man No. 129.

1974 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,440.00
624

Captain America No. 62.

1947 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,200.00
668

Strange Tales No. 110.

1963 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
350 [Pascin, Jules]

Pascin: Catalogue Raisonne.

1984 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,140.00
528 Baum, L.

Ozma of Oz. First Edition.

ca. 1920s-30s. USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,140.00
334 Vertes, Marcel.

Le Cirque.

1949 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,080.00
412

Lot of Over 100 Erotic Real Photo Postcards, Snapshots, and Ephemera.

1910s-20s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
469 Mattioli, Pietro Andrea.

Herbar aneb Bylinar.

1596]. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
527

Seventeen Titles from the Wizard of Oz Series.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
601

The Amazing Spider-Man No. 19.

1964 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,080.00
765

Tales of Magic and Mystery. Four Issues.

1927-1928. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,080.00
520

Christine Jorgensen Photo Archive.

1940s-50s. USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,020.00
638

Fantastic Four No. 48.

1966 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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