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112 BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS Other Properties Lot 639 639. Androides (The) ha n D B i L L f O r a te L e g r a p h e x h i B i t e D u p O n me C h a n i C a L pr i n C i p L e s B y a n au t O m at O n fi g u r e, also describing five other exhibits, 514mm. by 190mm., and a small bill describing four of the same exhibits, 223 by 138mm., [late eighteenth century]. £250 - £350 *** The other exhibits are the automata titled The New Orthographer; The Writing Automaton; and the Highland Oracle, and two animated model scenes titled The Fruitery and The Liquor Merchant and Water Server. 640. Bertram (Charles) isn’t it WO n D e r f u L?, illustrations, hinges becoming loose, original pictorial cloth, gilt, browned, 1896 § Theobald (J.D.) Magic and its Mysteries, illustrations, inscription to title verso, new endpapers, original pictorial boards, rebacked, corners bumped, rubbed, [c.1880] § Frost (Thomas) Lives of the Conjurors, new edition, closed tear to half-title, original decorative cloth, spine a little faded, 1881 § Brewster (Sir David) Letters on Natural Magic, new edition, illustrations, inscription to endpaper, original decorative cloth, gilt, spine darkened, 1882; and 4 others, late 19th century magic, 4to & 8vo (8) £150 - £200 641. Bertram Mills Circus. a C O L L e C t i O n O f p r O g r a m m e s: Olympia Season 1946-7, 1948-1949,1954-55, 1956-1957, 1957-1958, 1961- 62, 1964-5, 1965-66, and 1966-67; Summer Season 1956; Silver Jubilee, 1960, and Summer Tour 1961, 1962, and 1963, with six duplicates, and others for Tom Arnold’s Harringay Circus, 1954- 55, and his Around the World in Eighty Days, [1964], illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, the first slightly worn, 8vo (22) £150 - £200 Lot 642 642. Buchinger (Mathew) Ca L i g r a p h i C s p e C i m e n, ornamental headpiece incorporating the letters ABC, repeated in reverse above “This is written by Mathew Buchinger born without hands or feet, 1717, London”, six lines, the second inverted, the fourth and last back to front, 80 by 102mm. £150 - £200 643. Bursill (Henry) ha n D sh a D O W s tO B e th r O W n up O n t h e Wa L L, second edition, 18 full-page illustrations including frontispiece, front endpaper browned, original green wrappers, substantial loss to upper cover, Griffith and Farran, 1859 § Nikola (Louis) Hand Shadows, second edition, illustrations, advertisements, original pictorial boards, a little soiled, loss to spine ends, 1921, 4to & 8vo (2) £80 - £120 644. Ca s s e L L’s BO O k O f in D O O r am u s e m e n t s, Ca r D ga m e s a n D firesiDe fu n, frontispiece, inscription to title, front hinge a little weak, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., spine slightly faded, [c.1880] § Routledge (Robert, editor) Science in Sport Made Philosophy in Earnest, fronstispiece, hinges a little weak, original pictorial cloth, 1877 § Pearson (Cyril, editor) The Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book, Three Parts in One Volume, second impression, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, [c.1907], illustrations; and 4 others, indoor games, including the original second part of the last item, 8vo (7) £120 - £180 645. Cremer (William Henry) ha n k y pa n k y, new edition, frontispiece, spine slightly browned, a little cocked, Edinburgh, [c.1873]; Magic No Mystery: Conjuring Tricks..., spine a little faded, Edinburgh, [c.1876] § Frikell (Joseph) The Secret Out, or One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-Room or White Magic, translated by Cremer, hinges weak, spine bumped, rubbed, [c.1880], illustrations, original pictorial cloth; and another, the Edinburgh imprint of the last, 8vo (4) £250 - £350
646. DO th e De a D re t u r n?..., by a Clergyman of the Church of England, vi O L e t tW e e D a L e’s C O p y, W i t h h e r insCriptiOn tO e n D pa p e r, plates, lower hinge a little weak, original decorative cloth, small dents to edges of front cover, spine dented, small hole to base of spine, very lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1893. £150 - £200 *** An interesting association copy. Violet Tweedale (1862-1936) was a noted author and spiritualist who claimed to psychic from an early age. She was a member of the Golden Dawn and a close associate of Helena Blavatsky. 647. Goldston (Will) ju g g L i n g se C r e t s, [1920s]; How to Make Sand, Smoke, and Rag Pictures, upper joint split at head, [1920s] § Collins (Stanley) Deceptive Conceptions in Magic, loss to base of spine, [1920s] § Johnson (V.E.) Chemical Magic, spine ends a little worn, 1920 § Burrows (J.F.) “Karlyn”. Secrets of Stage Hypnotism, [1920s], illustrations, original pictorial boards, light surface soiling; and 10 others, 1920s conjuring, 8vo (15) £80 - £120 Lot 648 648. Houdini (Harry) [Erich Weiss]. th e un m a s k i n g O f rO B e rthO u D i n, first en g L i s h e D i t i O n, frontispiece, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly browned, light finger-soiling, 8vo, [1909]. £150 - £200 Lot 649 649. [Inglis (Jack)] “Colonel Stodare”. CO L O n e L st O D a r e’s ha n D-BO O k O f ma g i C; or Conjuring Made Easy... Palingenesy or the art of reviving the dead, and making the image of a deceased person appear, first e D i t i O n, occasional damp-staining to corners, original printed wrappers, chipped at upper corner, small closed tear to front panel, light finger-soiling, [not in Toole Stott: Conjuring], 12mo, Manchester, F. Leech, 1864. £600 - £800 *** Scarce, unrecorded by Toole Stott, and pre-dating all the titles by Stodare listed in the major magic bibliographies. The only other copy we can find was in the Ergatoudis sale, Bonhams, 2005. Lot 650 650. [Lewis (Angelo J.)] “Professor Hoffmann”. Dr aW i n g-rO O m CO n j u r i n g, first en g L i s h e D i t i O n, spine a little faded, spine ends bumped, 1887; Modern Magic, fifth edition, joints a little weak, spine faded, spine ends bumped, light finger-soiling, 1886; More Magic, a little rubbed, [c.1900]; Mechanical Puzzles, original stiff pictoiral wrappers, small amount of loss at joints, [c.1895]; Miscellaneous Puzzles, original stiff pictoiral wrappers, corners and spine ends scuffed, [c.1895]; Arithmetical Puzzles, original stiff pictorial wrappers, loss to base of spine, tear to lower corner, [c.1895], illustrations, the first 3 in original pictorial cloth, 8vo (6) £200 - £300 BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS 113
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