Auction Reports
Potter and Potter Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Select Secrets
- Auction Date
- 12/13/2025 - 12/13/2025
- Sale Number
- #1226
- Total Lots
- 121
- Sold Lots
- 120.0
- Lots Sold
- 99.17%
- Unsold Lots
- 1
- Total Sales (USD)
- 611,250.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 259,400.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 427,700.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 260,900.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 430,200.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 142.09%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 | THAYER, Floyd (1877 -- 1959). | Floyd Thayer's Scrapbooks of Magic and Magicians. |
1890s -- 1950s. | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 43,200.00 |
| 113 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874--1926). | A Magician Among the Spirits. |
1924 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 38,400.00 |
| 127 | KELLAR, Harry (Heinrich Keller, 1849 -- 1922). | Kellar. Levitation. |
1894 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 33,600.00 |
| 70 | GOLDIN, Horace (Hyman Goldstein, 1873 -- 1939). | A Moorish Fantasy. Horace Goldin. The Royal Illusionist in the Tiger God. |
ca. 1912 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 28,800.00 |
| 2 | Greats of Magic Signed Playing Card Pack. |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 28,800.00 | |
| 25 | CERVON, Bruce (1941 -- 2007). | Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks. |
1964 -- 87]. | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 28,800.00 |
| 165 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston The Great Magician. Do They Come Back? |
ca. 1910 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 22,800.00 |
| 95 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874--1926). | Candid Portrait of the Houdini Family Annotated by Houdini. |
ca. 1912 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 18,000.00 |
| 172 | VALADON, Paul (1867 -- 1913). | Kellar's Mysteries. |
N/A | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 18,000.00 |
| 155 | SCOT, Reginald (1538 -- 99). | The Discovery of Witchcraft. |
1665 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 15,600.00 |
| 76 | [HERRMANN] BRADY, Matthew (1822 -- 96). | Large-Format Glass Plate Negative of Alexander Herrmann. |
1893 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 15,600.00 |
| 107 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874--1926). | Houdini's Silver Cake Tray. |
1919 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 14,400.00 |
| 126 | KELLAR, Harry (Heinrich Keller, 1849 -- 1922). | The Spectres Sanctum Illusion Hand-Drawn Diagram and Letter. |
N/A | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
| 31 | CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918). | Chung Ling Soo. From the Land of the Peacock. |
ca. 1908 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
| 164 | THURSTON, Howard (1869 -- 1936). | Thurston the Great Magician. [Book of Knowledge.] |
1910 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
| 128 | KELLAR, Harry (Heinrich Keller, 1849 -- 1922). | Kellar's Beautiful Production. The Queen of Roses. |
1895 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 13,200.00 |
| 184 | Library of Vintage and Modern Magic Books. | A massive collection of approximately 2,500 volumes spanning the 1880s -- 2020s, |
1880s -- 2020s, | USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 12,000.00 |
| 117 | IONIA (Clementine DeVere, 1888 -- 1973). | Ionia. |
ca. 1910 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,000.00 |
| 29 | CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 - 1918). | Chung Ling Soo. The Light of the World. Marvellous Chinese Conjurer. |
ca. 1910 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,200.00 |
| 62 | ERDNASE, S.W. | The Expert at the Card Table. Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge at the Card Table. |
(1902). | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,200.00 |
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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 AprilSotheby’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.