Conjuring & Circus: - Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 137
Lot 138
Lot 140
137. Boilly (Louis Léopold) Le ti r e u r D e s Ca rt e s, lithograph
by Delpech after Boilly, coloured by hand, cut away at corners,
otherwise a good clean copy, 327mm. by 260mm., [Paris], 1826.
£150 - £200
138. Boniface VIII (Pope) Li B e r se x t u s De C r e ta L i u m, an early
woodcut illustration of a conjuror performing with two cups and a
ball, cut from the book, with portion of text below printed in red and
black, framed and glazed, 74mm. by 66mm., [Leyden, 1514].
£100 - £150
Lot 139
139. Borel (Antoine) Le Ch a r L ata n, large aquatint scene by Pierre
Leveillé after Borel, with a charlatan selling quack medicines,
coloured by hand, remargined at upper edge, imprint cropped, in
card mount, 421mm. by 550mm, Paris, Vidal, [1785]. £300 - £400
140. Bosch (Hieronymus) [th e ma g i C i a n], engraving by Cornelis
Bos after the painting by Bosch, depicting the conjuror, his young
accomplice and audience, discoloured and laid down, areas at top
and right edge torn way, with missing areas of the image supplied
by hand, 245mm. by 319mm., [1550]. £2,000 - £3,000
*** Bob Read located only two copies of this print, one in the
Albertina Musuem, the other sold at auction in Holland, 2002.