Magic Memorabilia 2018-08-25 Auction - 468 Price Results - Potter & Potter Auctions in IL
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Magic Memorabilia

Our summer sale of magicana includes vintage posters, apparatus, antiquarian books, and ephemera. Among the highlights are rarities advertising the shows of the Hanlon Brothers, early and uncommon conjuring catalogs, and relics from the career of Howard Thurston.
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Gabe Fajuri
Gabe Fajuri
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The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic.: Anderson, John Henry. The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic. London: J.W. Last, ca. 1849. Cover title: One Shilling’s Worth of Magic, with the Biography of a Wandering Wizard. 140th Edition
0001: The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic.Est. $350-$550
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Drawing Room Magic.: B., J.T. Drawing Room Magic. New York, ca. 1874. Publisher’s grey wraps, illustrated with “numerous illustrative diagrams.” 12mo. Cover ragged and soiled, interior pages chipped and
0002: Drawing Room Magic.Est. $100-$150
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A Disillusioned Occultist.: Barns, Charles E. A Disillusioned Occultist. New York: Willard Fracker & Co., 1889. Publisher’s printed parchment wrappers and dust-wrapper. Engraved title page printed in black and red.
0003: A Disillusioned Occultist.Est. $100-$200
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The Black Art or Magic Made Easy.: The Black Art or Magic Made Easy. New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1869. Hand-colored pictorial wraps. Diagrams in text. 8vo. Edges with slight chips and short tears. Archival cloth drop-spine box. Toole
0004: The Black Art or Magic Made Easy.Est. $500-$700
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Le Livre Magique. Tombé De La Lune.: [Blow Book] Le Livre Magique. Tombé De La Lune. [France]: MM. Gangel et P. Didion, ca. 1870. Wraps. A “blow” book, whose contents make several changes when the magician blows on the
0005: Le Livre Magique. Tombé De La Lune.Est. $300-$500
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New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works.: Caus, Isaac de. New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works. London: Joseph Moxon, 1659. First Edition in English. Contemporary brown calf, older rebacking, gilt morocco title label. Engraved title. [vi],
0009: New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works.Est. $10,000-$15,000
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The Boy’s Own Book.: Clarke, William. The Boy’s Own Book. London: Vizetelly, Branston, & Co., 1835. Tenth Edition. Modern smooth brown morocco, gilt-lettered red leather title label, new endpapers. Pictorial
0010: The Boy’s Own Book.Est. $400-$600
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The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in: Dean, Henry. The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection. London: J. Brew, 1781. Eighth Edition. Full tan calf, blind-ruled, gilt-lettered red morocco title label. Archival cloth
0013: The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus Pocus inEst. $2,000-$3,000
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The History of Magic.: Ennemoser, Joseph. The History of Magic. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Two volumes, embossed red cloth with gilt spine. 8vos. Hinges weak, boards rubbed, mild soiling and foxing. Covers rubbed with
0015: The History of Magic.Est. $200-$300
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The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, The Conjurer: The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, The Conjurer Unmasked. Derby: Thomas Richardson, ca. 1830. Finely bound in smooth blue morocco, double-ruled gilt boards, tooled spine with two raised bands, marbled
0016: The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, The ConjurerEst. $2,500-$3,500
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Lives of the Necromancers.: Godwin, William. Lives of the Necromancers. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. Contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled boards, ornately gilt-stamped spine, marbled endpapers. Half-title. 8vo.
0018: Lives of the Necromancers.Est. $200-$300
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Herrmann, First Prestidigitateur.: Herrmann, Compars. Herrmann, First Prestidigitateur. [New York], 1861. Letterpress booklet/program advertising Herrmann’s performance at the Academy of Music, and including stories and
0019: Herrmann, First Prestidigitateur.Est. $800-$1,200
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How to Amuse an Evening Party.: How to Amuse an Evening Party. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869. Colored pictorial wraps. Illustrated with 197 woodcuts. 8vo. Housed in a custom clamshell box with gilt stamped spine. Very good.
0021: How to Amuse an Evening Party.Est. $250-$350
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A Magician’s Tour.: Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller). A Magician’s Tour. Chicago, 1891. Brown cloth, blind-ruled, spine with gilt title label. Illustrations, some full-page. 8vo. Extremities rubbed, spine soiled,
0024: A Magician’s Tour.Est. $200-$300Lot Passed
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