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1890J62618New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1890. Softcover. Fair. Chromolith full page & text illustrations and including doublepage center spread of Grand Entry of Caravan of Moors & Arabs. Octavo 9.9x7.2" chromolith covers of Arab rider with inset puma lower cover dancer inset Bison worn & creased edge chipping & corner loss more to lower cover neat name to lower cover 16pp incl. both covers. All illustrations complete tho' 2 captions with some loss all margins with fingering and some creasing. Inner hinges repaired but original staples still present. A sought for title priced to reflect condition. McLoughlin Bros. paperback
187016609Chicago: Willis and Stevens 1870. Albumen photograph carte de visite of a circus side show of two young twin boys approximately 6 years old wearing matching gymnastics costumes with award rosettes on their chests. 2 1/4 x 3 3/4" albumen photograph on 2 1/2 x 4 1/8" card. Photographer on verso listed as "Willis and Stevens Portrait Photographers N. W. Cor. State & Madison Sts Access via Elevator No. 77 Madison St. Chicago Ill". Willia and Stevens were female photographers listed in an 1875 directory. Unsunned very good. Willis and Stevens unknown
18922260084Erie PA: Erie Show Printing Company 1892. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Softcover measuring 8.5" in height and bound with a single piece of thread at the center which is likely very fragile because of its age. The exterior shows fading along the edges particularly the front. There's also small folds and tears present. The top of the front also shows original owner information. The first page on the interior has some creases and crimps which is also present on the additional pages. Paper is darkened due to age and the quality of paper used. This is a rare piece of ephemera of this Pennsylvania performer and may be the only surviving copy. <br/> <br/> Erie Show Printing Company paperback
187536453n.p. 1875. Carte de Visite format 2-1/2" x 4" albumen print on card mount: Photographic portrait of John McGuire a dwarf dressed in the usual fancy suit and top hat popular with dwarf performers at the time. No printed caption or imprint appears. A pencil notation beneath the photo "Coll. Mcguire." Minor dust. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Col. John McGuire a dwarf perfomer has been the subject of a only handful of carte-de-visites from what our research showed. There is one example very similar to ours held in the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs at Syracuse University and dated about 1875. unknown
1862165540Munich.: Deschler's Book Brotherhood. 1862. Circus Suhr & Huttermann Poster: Circus Suhr & Hüttemann verbunden mit Theater. Heute Samstag den 2. August 1862: grosse ausserordentliche Vorstellung in der höheren Reitkunst noch nie gesehen Gymnastik und Vorführung der ausgezeichnetsten Schulpferde. Zum Zweitenmale. Black and white poster with engraving. One-sheet. Leaf size: 43.5 x 23.5cm. Top edge slightly browned and small piece 8 x 1cm missing from lower left hand corner An extraordinary presentation in the Higher art of horsemanship never before seen gymnastics and demonstrations of excellent equestrian arts. The extensive program included - two Chinese - August and Henry executing their brave and bold display. . Deschler's Book Brotherhood unknown
188925869Cincinnati: Dillon 1889. Very good overall. An albumen photograph of a trapeze artist possibly H.Huston Ludlum a muscular young man wearing full length leg covering and shorts and short sleeve shirt holding a horizontal trapeze bar attached to a multitude of balloon cords in front of a painted backdrop. <br /> Dillon Cor 8th & Race Sts Cincinnati below photograph. Verso has a fully illustrated trade card for Dillon's Imperial Photo Gallery with an illustrated building advertising S.W. Dillon and a Garfield monument out front. "Elegant Portraits made from small pictures in india ink water colors crayon and pastels.'<br /> <br /> 4 1/4 x 6 1/4" Albuman photo on a printed cabinet card corners and edges rubbed one pinhole bottom center. Dillon unknown
18482312New York: Cameron's Steam Presses 1848. About Good. 23 x 9 inches. Broadside. Yellow stock printed in black with specifics about the location date and price of admission written in red pencil in the appropriate locations and to the upper margin. Worn and creased; loss to upper margin affecting legibility of the name of the hotel possibly "Vermont Hotel" where the circus was held; chipping and marginal loss to left side; faint dampstaining. Promotional broadside for a circus held in Wells NY on October 6 1848. The circus featured a "Juvenile Artist" named Jerome Hobbs noted here as "the Young American Necromantic performer Contortionist and Hercules" whose act included "tying himself in a bow not sic" throwing iron balls into the air balancing weights on the back of his neck and something simply called "Golden Showers". Also featured are the Swiss Brothers who performed "upwards of Thirty different Tableaux taken from some of the most famous models of Ancient History" and a "negro extravaganza" most likely a minstrel show rather than a performance by African Americans.Not located in OCLC. Cameron's Steam Presses unknown
1892List3690N.p. 1892. Folio 9 ½ x 11 ½ inches. 17 pp. Pink printed newsprint wrappers with photographic portrait of John H. Sparks on the front cover. Covers detached paper toned and fragile as typical of newsprint; fair to good overall. An unrecorded music folio issued for the traveling circus of John H. Sparks in the early 1890s self-described as “The Best Collection of Music Ever Published.†Sparks based in Ohio was building his circus during this period into a touring wagon show combining trained animal acts equestrian performances and sideshow attractions. Sparks toured widely presenting afternoon and evening performances and like other traveling acts relied heavily on printed ephemera for revenue. Songs include “Waiting to Hear the Verdict†by Chales Osbourne; “Annie Reilly†by Johnnie Carroll; “Don’t Abuse the Old Folks†by Will H. Fox; “When the Sea Gives Up its Dead†by J.J. Nolan; “When Summer Comes Again†by James Thornton; “The White Squadron†by Arthur West; “Wait Till My Ship Comes Home†by John Walsh; “My Old Dutch†by Charles Ingle; and “Buy a Nice Little Home in the Country†by Ed. Barry. Several compositions are copyrighted by Frank Harding 1864–1939 at the Royal Copyright Office which is peculiar and suggest the possibility that this was for an English audience though Sparks is not known to have toured England during this period. Harding was a New York music publisher who operated Frank Harding’s Music House at 229 Bowery during the formative years of Tin Pan Alley. unknown
187017145Colchester England: Oldham & Angle Photographers 1870. Photography. Very good overall. Carte de visite showing the Australian General Tom Thumb aka John David Armstrong who made his debut in Melbourne in 1870 and performed world wide. An uncommon image with Tom Thumb standing next to an ornately carved chair and dresser dressed in coat and tails and holding a sheaf of papers. The visit of the American Charles Stratton "Tom Thumb" and his wife Lavinia to Australia in the late 1860s as part of the PT Barnum round the world tour resulted in a huge fascination with little people worldwide. With the title below the photograph. Text on the verso: "this photograph is from the studio of G. A. Graham 8 Mersea Road. With photographers imprint: Oldham & Angle Photographers 11 Queen St. & 8 Mersea Rd. Colchester". Below the stamp: "The higher class photographs only taken by Sydney B. Angle 11 Queen St.". 2 1/2 x 4". Slt faded. Oldham & Angle Photographers unknown
188153115Munich: Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman 1881. Folio. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black w/ decorated woodcut-engraved borders. With 36 pen & ink sketch plates tipped-in to 28 thick paper boards each w/ red woodcut-engraved borders & red lettering in lower fore-edge of plate. Original blue-gray pictorial publisher’s cloth folding portfolio elaborate gilt & black lettering & illustration of horse trainer raising horses up on their hind legs decorative endpapers binder’s tick of G. Fritsche Book binder Leipzig on lower front pastedown minor rubbing very minor shelfwear slight toning to text leaves a couple very small closed tears repaired w/ archival repair tape at fore-edges still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated homage to the 19th-century circus horse trick riders jugglers clowns and trapeze artists. All of the sepia-tinted plates have been executed with great precision and energy displaying a tremendous vitality and talent. Lang 1838-1891 studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich studied horses in the veterinary schools and stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. He traveled extensively and his circus illustrations have become quite desirable by enthusiasts. Konigliche Hof-Buch- und Kunsthandlung Adolf Ackerman, hardcover
189537701Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber 1895. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original white cloth upper board pictorially stamped in gilt and polychrome silk endpapers. One small spot to lower board small book label to front pastedown else a crisp fine copy of this scarce and desirable work on circus athletes freaks and itinerant performers. First Edition. With 135 illustrations many full page. x 2 150 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber unknown
18867262St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers 1886. Two-sided herald 10.5" x 28" printed in black on yellow newsprint. Text on bottom of each side reads "Black on Yellow Car No. 1 Great Western Printing Co. Show Printers and Engravers St. Louis. No. 4" with "Binghamton Mon. May 10" stamped in blue at bottom of verso in the "Will exhibit at" blank. Illustrations and performance roster in two columns. Headline on recto fabulously reads "The World Ransacked for All Its Wonders."<br /> <br /> Illustrations feature the Grand Street Demonstration the Egyptian Bovalapus actually a water buffalo two from the Equestrian Organization assumed James Robinson in his famous somersault and Emma Stokes wife of show proprietor John B. Doris "Old Betts" the War-Elephant a Troupe of Turkish Athletes another of Bicycle Riders Siberian Roller Skaters knife-thrower Riffia Bey and reptile-queen Katamorpa. Text roster adds everything from Human Blood-Sucking Vampires to a Menagerie of Infant Animals. The show carried a robust equestrian lineup including the aforementioned Robinson who was only the second person to execute a bareback somersault and at the height of his career was the highest paid equestrian in the United States. Another notable performance was the seven-person clown troupe led by Johnny Patterson the Irish humorist and songwriter best known for his song "The Garden Where the Praties Grow."<br /> <br /> In the show's route diary for this year compiler and Superintendent of the Confectionery Department E.C. White writes that the 1886 run was "one of the most successful seasons Financially and Professionally ever known.Notwithstanding the strong opposition experienced at the commencement and close of the season." On May 8th for the stop in Elmira NY just preceding this poster's show in Binghamton the diary notes "First day of the Forepaugh opposition." From there the rival Adam Forepaugh Circus & Wild West Show began to follow the Doris route a few days behind but sending their tack-spitters ahead to put up adverts for their own show before Doris's arrival in town. The Binghamton stand was 135 miles down the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and the opposition brigade had already gotten there. The diary entry for the date on this herald notes "Forepaugh bills us heavy here" but despite the opposition advertising and an amount of rain goes on to say "business good." Forepaugh would set up in Binghamton four days later on the 14th. The route diary as an aside descends into an almost Sisyphean resignation as this goes on simply writing "Forepaugh" or "Forepaugh again" entry after entry until on June 25th offers the existential almost-haiku "We ferry here. Forepaugh is billed here. Rain all day."<br /> <br /> In keeping with classic origin stories John B. Doris ran away at fourteen and joined the Dan Rice Circus. He soon bought privileges on the Rice show along with George Batcheller and soon the two split off to start Batcheller & Doris' Great Inter Ocean Circus. Doris bought out his partner in 1881 and continued as the sole proprietor until 1888 when heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan became a partner. Sullivan one of the first true sports celebrities was meant to engage in a sparring exhibition each night but missed so many shows due to his excessive drinking that Doris closed the show mid-season and retired from traveling to work in theater production. Doris seems to have been well-liked by other circus folk earning the nickname Hunky Doris.<br /> <br /> Herald is in excellent condition overall with a shallow half-inch chip at bottom and a couple tiny chips and tears in margins along edges along with a few small pinholes to surface none involving or interfering with text. Flattened remnant of a horizontal crease at center. A couple smudged thumbprints to top margin on recto. Print is clean and color even. Great Western Printing Co., Show Printers and Engravers unknown
1863BB055Original carte-de-visite photographs of Charles Sherwood Stratton better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb" a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P. T. Barnum here photographed with his wife Lavinia Warren AUTOGRAPHED in Stratton's handwriting on verso "Genl Tom Thumb & Mrs Tom Thumb - 1863 August". The couple were married in February 1863 for which it is said President Lincoln hosted them with a reception at the White House. The 2nd picture of the Strattons in their wedding costumes also a picture of their best man and bridesmaid Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren Lavinia's sister and the wedding party together all in especially fine condition with dark brown hues each having facsimile autographs on the verso by their subjects. In addition an 1865 photograph of "Gen. Tom Thumb Wife and Child" verso blank. Altogether 5 carte-de-visite original mounted photographs the first with imprint verso backboard of Charles D Fredericks & Co 587 Broadway New York then three "from photographic Negative by Matthew Brady" imprinted by E & H T Anthony 501 Broadway the last by J Hall junction York and Fulton Sts Brooklyn.Born in Bridgeport 1838 to parents who were of medium height Charles was a relatively large baby weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces 4.3 kg at birth. He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life at which point he was 25 inches 64 cm tall and weighed 15 pounds 6.8 kg. Then he suddenly stopped growing. By late 1842 4 years old Stratton had grown only one inch additional though his body was proportionate and functional. The showman Phineas T. Barnum heard about Stratton and after making arrangements with his parents taught the boy how to sing dance mime and impersonate famous people. He toured America and Europe in 1845 during which time his performances marked a turning point in the history of freak show entertainment. Prior to Stratton's debut the presentation of "human curiosities" for the purpose of entertainment was deemed dishonorable and seen as an unpleasing carnival attraction. However after viewers were introduced to Stratton and performances he was able to change the perception people held toward freak shows. Stratton's lively entertainments made these types of carnival shows one of the most favored forms of theatre in the United States.His marriage to Lavinia Warren also a little person became front-page news. The wedding took place at Grace Episcopal Church and the wedding reception was held at New York City's Metropolitan Hotel. The couple stood atop a grand piano at the reception to greet some 10000 guests. Rare to find a vintage picture of the couple dated and inscribed so early in their marriage and nice companion images inscriptions on three other pictures are in facsimile handwriting.TOGETHER WITH:BLEEKER Sylvester: Gen Tom Thumb's Three Yers' Tour Around the World accompanied by His Wife – Lavinia Warren Stratton Commodore Nutt Miss Minnie Warren and Party.New York: S. Booth 1872. Woodcut illustrations.8vo. 144 pp.; original printed pictorial orange wrappers overlayed with decorative cloth including spine.
1827D6FA25RBPUPBAustria 1827. Oblong folio ca. 40 x 46 cm. With a large woodcut illustration ca. 27 x 38 cm. The text is set in a Gothic type. 1 l. Very attractive early 19th-century broadside with a beautiful large woodcut of a spectacular medieval show enlivened with fireworks. The text below announces the show of a gymnastics circus company under the direction of Bartholomäus Ramini dates unknown. According to the playbill the show consisted of four parts: an acrobatic performance by a four-year old; a horse dressage by "lustige Kaspar"; an acrobatic act with among others balancing and a human pyramid; and a play of "Otto der Stählerne im Kampfe mit dem rothen Feuerriesen und die Befreiung der Prinzessin Clotilde" translation: Otto the man of steel fighting with the red fire giant and the liberation of Princess Clothilde which included fireworks. This last part of the performance has also been mentioned as part of another circus show which was held at Prague in June 1827 under the direction of a citizen of Prague named "Beranek" Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben. The present broadside most likely announces the same theatre or circus company now performing in a different location.The work has been folded in the past. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cf. Journal für Kunst Literatur und geselliges Leben nr. 74 21 June 1827 p. 592. hardcover
