Potter and Potter Auctions: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Featuring Mystery and Detective Literature, 1210, Chicago

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Auction Date
July 24, 2025 - July 24, 2025
Page Size: 614 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 WELLS, G.

[ACCOUNTING]. A Commercial Guide, for the Use of Schools: Containing a Practical Application of the Principal Rules of Arithmetic to the Purpose of Trade...

Chipping-Norton 1824 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 180.00
2 MEREDITH, James (b. 1933)

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. Three Years in Mississippi

[Cincinnati, OH] [1966] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 330.00
3 SPIVAK, John L. (1897-1981)

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. Georgia Nigger

London 1933 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 420.00
4 AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius (1486-1535)

The Vanity of Arts and Sciences

London 1676 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
5 ALIGHIERI, Dante

Dante's Inferno

Hopewell: NJ 1993 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 960.00
6 ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)

The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

New York 1897-1907 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
7 ALGREN, Nelson (1909-1981)

Pair of First Editions in Dust Jacket, One Inscribed, including: The Neon Wilderness

Garden City 1947 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
8 POLLARD, Edward A. (1832-1872)

[AMERICANA]. [CONFEDERACY]. The Lost Cause; A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates

New York 1866 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 450.00
9 [BLAINE, William Newnham]

[AMERICANA]. An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-23

London 1824 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 450.00
10 BOSSU, Jean Bernard (1720-1792)

[AMERICANA]. [LOUISIANA]. Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentrionale...

Amsterdam 1777 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 360.00
11 [CONDER, Josiah (1789-1855)]

[AMERICANA]. The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description... North America

London 1829-30 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 96.00
12 DIXON, Joseph K. (1856-1926)

[AMERICANA]. The Vanishing Race. The Last Great Indian Council

Garden City, NY 1913 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 180.00
13 EASTMAN, Mrs. Mary H. (1818-1887)

[AMERICANA]. Chicora and Other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered

Philadelphia 1854 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 270.00
14 EMORY, W[illiam] H. (1811-1887)

[AMERICANA]. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers

Washington 1848 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
15 [FORCE, Peter (1790-1868), printer]

[AMERICANA]. Sammelband Collection of Tracts, Most Printed by Peter Force

Washington, D. C. [ca. 1830s] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 210.00
16 PULTENEY, William (1729-1805)

[AMERICANA]. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), contributor]. Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs with America, and the Means of Conciliation

London 1778 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 210.00
17

[AMERICANA]. Group of 6 First or Early Editions

[V.p.] [1790s-1920s] USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
18

[AMERICANA]. Group of 6 First or Early Editions of Travels in North America

[V.p.] [19th century] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 420.00
19

[AMERICANA]. Group of 4 Nineteenth-Century First Editions in 6 Volumes

[V.p.] [19th century] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
20

[AMERICANA - BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. Group of 8 Titles in 9 Volumes

[V.p.] [v.d., ca. 1900s] USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
21 JOHNSTON, Charles (b. 1768)

[AMERICANA]. A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston, of Botetourt County, Virginia, Who Was Made Prisoner by the Indians, on the River Ohio, in the Year 1790...

New York 1827 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
22 KENDALL, George Wilkins (1809-1867)

[AMERICANA]. Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Comanche and Caygua Hunting-Grounds...

New York 1844 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 330.00
23 McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)

[AMERICANA]. History of the Indian Tribes of North America

Philadelphia [1836]; 1838; 1844 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,600.00
24 THOMAS, David (1770-1857)

[AMERICANA]. Travels Through the Western Country in the Summer of 1816...

Auburn, NY 1819 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
25

[AMERICANA]. [REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA]. [JUDAICA]. The American Museum: or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c, Prose and Poetical

Philadelphia [1788, 1791, 1792] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,080.00
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