Fine Books & Manuscripts with Exploration, Americana and Fine Press
FEBRUARY 26, 2022 • Our first book sale of the year features an array of rare works in Americana and exploration including Ethan Allen's revolutionary war narrative, Hakluyt's Voyages, and numerous cartographic items related to the Great Lakes Region. Other strong categories include fine press, detective fiction including works by Doyle, and numerous areas of literature.
Vintage Posters
JANUARY 29, 2022 • Potter & Potter is excited to begin the year with an expansive vintage poster auction consisting of hundreds of travel, war and propaganda, theatrical, advertising, concert, winter sports, and pictorial map posters.
Quicker than the Eye
Potter & Potter's Retail Store. Shop now for vintage magic, gambling, circus, and oddities. Our inventory includes used, rare, and out-of-print books, along with vintage magic posters, photographs, magic tricks, playing cards, and more.
Micro Magic Auction • Online Only
FEBRUARY 19, 2022 • Our first magic auction of the year will be a first for Potter & Potter - a sale of "micro magic" - clever and collectible close-up magic apparatus.
Salon de Magie • The Klosterman Collection • Part II
MARCH 26, 2022 • This spring brings the second sale from this legendary collection of magicana to auction block. Highlights include relics from the shows of Karl Germain McDonald Birch, and Harry Kellar, as well as choice lithographs, ephemera, and rare conjuring apparatus. Deluxe hardbound catalogs are now available for pre-order. Limited quantities available.
Upcoming Auction
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Download PDFVintage Posters
Potter & Potter is excited to begin the year with an expansive vintage poster auction consisting of hundreds of travel, war and propaganda, theatrical, advertising, concert, winter sports, and pictorial map posters. The sale includes a trove of early advertising and World War I posters from the company archives of the Western Litho. Co. of Los Angeles, and works by notable designers and masters of the form such as Hohlwein, Cappiello, Steinlen, David Klein, James Montgomery Flagg, Jo Mora, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Norman Rockwell, Austin Cooper, and Paul George Lawler.
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Micro Magic Auction
Our first magic auction of the year will be a first for Potter & Potter - a sale of "micro magic" - clever and collectible close-up magic apparatus. Featuring nearly-comprehensive offerings of props made by Eddy Taytelbaum, Alan Warner, and the Tenyo company, over 350 lots will cross the block. Rare examples from each of these makers' lines will be offered, nearly all of them in like-new condition, with many of the Tenyo tricks complete with original packaging.
This is an online-only sale and will be conducted exclusively on Potter & Potter's online bidding platform. No printed catalog will be issued.
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Download PDFFine Books & Manuscripts
Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779. This session will also highlight several scarce cartographic lots related to the Great Lakes region, including the earliest obtainable map of the area by Coronelli. The sale will also feature choice works on travel and exploration, including a second edition of Hakluyt’s Voyages. Other highlights of the sale include The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment translated by Lane in its original monthly parts -- the only other known copy being held by the Pierpont Morgan Library -- a pristine copy of Huckleberry Finn, and an Einstein letter critiquing a set of equations. We will round out the auction by offering an expansive fine press session, including titles from the Kelmscott Press, Doves Press, the Limited Editions Club, and several works printed on vellum.