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1856113689Paris: Sumptibus Societis Bibliopolarum Catholicorum - Liturgiae Romanae Editorum. 1856. 18,5cm. Zustand: Befriedigend gering gebräunt, weil der Buchrücken bei allen 4 Büchern vom Buchblock gelöst hat, mache das als Hauptphotos, Bücher könnten ggfs. geklebt oder nachgebunden werden (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat geringe bis leichte Gebrauchsspuren; GOLD-Komplettschnitt; Seitlicher Schnitt hat eingebaute Reiter; Leder (Braun)
183949536Stuttgart, J. Scheible's Buchhandlung, 1839. Mit lithographiertem Frontispiz und zahlreichen Abbildungen, 376, 342 Seiten, grüner Pp der Zeit mit hellem Rückenschild
18821237New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers 1882. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 3/8 X 6 3/4 Inches. 160 PP 26 PP ADS. Original 1882 hardcover edition. Victorian era illustrated book of magic. Contents include topics such as: Preparing the stage the Magic Mirror charades and much more. Intended as a guide to home entertainment in the late 19th century. All illustrations intact. Spectacular cover illustration of man hanging a broadside with text from the contents of the book. Slight scuffing to boards and edges. Slight toning to pages. Discreet PO bookplate identifying the book as part of Charles Rulfs "Library of Conjuring" on the inside front board. Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers hardcover
18843554907216771884. First Edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T Dillingham 1884. First US Edition. Publisher's original pictorial pictorial olive cloth. lettered in brown to the spine and front board with a vignette in brown also to the front board. Cloth slightly frayed at the head and tail of the spine as usually encountered bumping and wear to the corners overall about VG for its age. Has two book-plates: Fulton Oursler to the front paste-down and Frank Koval to the front free end-paper. Charles Fulton Oursler was an American journalist playwright editor and writer. Writing as Anthony Abbot he was a notable author of mysteries and detective fiction. Frank Koval was a noted magic historian. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1855AQ33661Hartford Connecticut: Calhoun Steam Printing Co. 1855. Single leaf broadside. With blank spaces left for insertion of location time and day of performance. A trifle creased several small holes. A provincially published American broadside advertising an evening of preeminent prestidigitation presented by Connectican multipotentialite Albert Walker 1836-1902. Born in Glastonbury to a family of agricultural labourers Walker entertained a multifarious variety of vocations and enthusiasms including but not limited to cutlery manufacture clock cleaning wagon repair cock-fighting and horse racing. He maintained a life-long passion for magic and ventriloquism constructing his own props for use in performances across the state throughout the mid-nineteenth century. Designed - as evidenced by the blank spaces - to be used in multiple locations with the time date and location to be completed in manuscript this broadside nevertheless is not short on detail of the programme involving sleight of hand 'feats of natural magic' a Punch and Judy performance and Walker's 'celebrated nose amputation'. OCLC records copies at just six locations AAS Brown Connecticut Museum LCP Michigan and Virginia; COPAC adds no further. . Dimensions 200 x 460 mm. Calhoun Steam Printing Co. unknown
18159622ABWien, Haas'sche, 1815. 8°. 511 S. Priv. Pp. der Zeit., Abbildung|Titelblatt
1881306001Small thin octavo. 17 b/w illustrations. Three pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait and view of a stage magician uncovering a goldfish bowl small stains. Very good. 32 pages including 3 pages of publisher's advertisements. Cover title: "De La Mano's Great Magic Book" "Containing an extensive collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with cards ribbons rings fruit coin balls handkerchiefs etc. all of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing-room" title page. New York Popular Publishing Company paperback
1900145631900. Collection of 2 Vintage Optical Lantern images of Iran circa 1900. 3-1/4"x 4." The first photo captures a daily scene in a caravan square of an Iranian village. A crowd of villagers is immersed in the daily business and social routine. Sacks of grain are stacked beside a mud village wall and people stop to speak to each other. In the background a wind tower typical of Yazd region and Southern Iran rises over the village. In the second image a caravan of camels rests wearing saddles and bridles having completed the day's journey. The camels rest in the courtyard of an Iranian village with a group of villagers gathered in the background. Scarce and in very good condition. unknown
1821OKKU2111Mainz, Florian Kupferberg 1821. 8°. XII, 387(1); XII, 440 S. Mit einigen Textholzschnitten. Marmorierter Halblederband der Zeit m. goldgepr. Rü.verz., 2 mont. Rüschi. und Deckelbezug aus braunem Kleisterpapier. Buchdeckel mit Schabstellen, Exlibris auf vord. Spiegel, die ersten 160 Seiten mit Wurmgängen, Teil des Buchblocks wasserrandig, 2 Abteilungen im ersten Band sehr vereinz. m. Anstreich. u. Anmerk. v. alter Hd. (Bleistift). Caillet 5262; Graesse, BMP 131-42; Cornell Univ. Witchcraft Cat. 295. Die ersten beiden Bände der ersten Ausgabe dieses Kompendiums über Dämonologie und Hexenwesen in dem Hunderte von Manuskripten und Büchern über alle Arten des Aberglaubens, der Hexerei und Magie verwertet worden sind. - "Eines der gesuchtesten und wertvollsten Werke auf dem Gebiete des Aberglaubens" (Ackermann I, 494). Enthält reichhaltiges Quellenmaterial "zur Beförderung einer rein-geschichtlichen, von Aberglauben und Unglauben freien Beurtheilung dieser Gegenstände". "Da ein Verständnis des Aberglaubens vor allen Dingen erfordert, dass man die abergläubische Vorstellung selber kennt, so haben solche Sammlungen des Materials einen keineswegs geringen wissenschaftlichen Wert. Das grösste Verdienst in dieser Beziehung hat sich der Prediger Georg Conrad Horst (1767-1838) erworben." (Lehmann, Aberglaube, 269). - Ohne die Bde. 3-6.
182923734Braband (d.i. wohl Mannheim) und Boston (im literarischen Central-Bureau), 1839, 1834, 1840, 1829. 67 SS., 80 SS., 96 SS., 72 SS. Kl.-8° (ca. 16, 5 x 10 cm), Halbleinen der Zeit, Deckelbezug mit schlichtem Buntpapier. Einband etwas berieben und leicht abgegriffen.
1875373439New York: Hurst & Co 1875. 30 2pp. With the terminal ad leaf. 8vo. Publisher's hand-colored pictorial wrappers. Foxing. 30 2pp. With the terminal ad leaf. 8vo. This early guide to magic tricks is ascribed to Professor Lorento and Francois R. Blitz. Only two examples recorded in OCLC. Hurst & Co unknown
1858AQ34883Hartford Connecticut: Calhoun Printing Company 66 State St. 1858. Large single leaf playbill printed within elaborate woodcut border. A fine copy. A finely preserved - and remarkably detailed - blank playbill for the elaborate combination of 'astounding novelties' performed by the showman magician and ventriloquist Albert Walker 1831-1899. Designed - as evidenced by the blank spaces - to be used in multiple locations with the time date and location to be completed in manuscript this broadside nevertheless is not short on detail of the programme involving several card tricks sleight of hand fire- eating Punch and Judy and ventriloquism to be performed: 'The following programme is merely intended as a foundation of Feats to be varied at each entertainment many of which are his own invention and have never before been attempted in America. The Wonderful fear of Santa Claus or the Juvenile Toy Shop. The Spanish Pin and Traveling Philosopher. The Changeable Cash or the Gambler outwitted. The Restored Card.The Flying Grain in which the assistant is frightend out of his mother wit. Suprising dexterity with Cards. The Flight of Rice.Prince Alladin's Glass or Chant of Electric Silver. This is a beautiful fear. -In this glass a piece of silver will dance and keep time with any tune played by the Orchester even when held by one of the audience'. The quotes reprinting 'opinions of the press' to the foot of this playbill provide the date. In 1858 at Worcester a reporter from the Munroe Democrat noted that 'On last saturday and Monday A. Walker favored our citizens with several entertainments consisting of magic ventriloquism music and fun of various sorts'. Rare; OCLC locates copies at just two locations worldwide Connecticut Museum of Culture and History and Michigan. . Dimensions 230 x 585 mm. Calhoun Printing Company, 66 State St. unknown
1835303241-1München, Lindauer 1835. XVI, 407 (1) S. Mit 4 Kupfertafeln. Original-Pappband
180665180Berlin-Stettin, Friedrich Nicolai, 1806. 8°. Mit 13 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 1 Bl., VI, 230 S., S. [VII-]VIII, Marmor. Ppbd. d. Zt. m. etw. Rückenverg., goldgepr. Rückenschild u. gespränkeltem Rotschnitt.
1893326724London: E.A. Beckett 111 & 113 Kingsland Road 1893. First Edition. Two folding plates of the Docwra Triple machine and numerous text illustrations. iv 195pp. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth. First Edition. Two folding plates of the Docwra Triple machine and numerous text illustrations. iv 195pp. 8vo. E.A. Beckett, 111 & 113 Kingsland Road unknown
18334360CBBerlin, Theod. Chr. Friedr. Enslin, 1833. Kl.-8°. VIII, 414 Seiten, 1 weißes Blatt, 22 Kupfertafeln mit 79 Abbildungen. OPp., Abbildung
180263050Graz, Christian Friedrich Trötscher, 1802. 8°. Mit einigen Holzschn.-Vignetten u. 2 gefalt. Tabellen. Zus. ca. 880 S., Ppbde. d. Zt. goldgepr. Rückenschildern.
1801306156London: Printed for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow by W. Glendinning 1801. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn joints cracked but sewing sound lacking spine label text block roughly trimmed occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums problems parlor tricks and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards magic squares magic lanterns feats of artificial memory and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy" by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities including chapters on arithmetic "To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them &c." "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter" and amusing "secrets" "To make people in a room have a hideous appearance". Toole Stott 240 Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning unknown
1839303248-1Stuttgart, Scheible 1839. Kl.8°. 376; 342; 324; 340; 338; 342 S. Mit lithogr. Porträt u. 46 lithogr. Tafeln. Marmor. Pappbände d. Zt.
189010821ABO.O, o.J. (ca. 1890). 46 : 29 cm. 8 Seiten Anleitungen Mit ca. 30 verschiedenen Hilfsmitteln zur Vorführung von Zaubertricks. Original-Pappkasten mit farbiger Deckelillustration.
