Conjuring & Circus: - Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 277
277. Montbard and others. te n p e r i O D i C a L s W i t h i L L u s t r at e D
f r O n t pa g e s: “Le Masque”: Aimable Valladon Mère de Thérésa,
by Montbard, torn at one side, 1867; “Le Rasoir”: Mr. Plaisanster,
by Lemaitre, 1870; “Le Grelot”: L’Evangile selon Sait Marc, by
Alfred Le Petit, 1872; L’Eclipse”: Passe Muscade, by Gill, 1875;
“Le Don Quichotte”: L’Agneau Pascal, and Une Omlette dans un
Chapeau, both by Gilbert-Martin, 1878-1887; “La Nouvelle Lune”:
Le Tour de Gobelet, by Coll-Toc, frayed, 1886, all but the second
coloured; and three issues of “Le Piliori”, each with an internal
conjuring illustration, 1895, large folio. £200 - £300
278. Pruche (Clément) Le BO u L e va r D D u te m p L e § Cham [Amédée
de Noé]. L’Escamoteur manquant son Tour (Les Cosaques pour
Rire, no.29), spotted; Another issue (Actualités no.55), 1854; Une
Joli Tour (Actualités no.152), all but the second lithographed
illustrations from “Le Charivari”, text on backs, all in heavy card
mounts (4) £150 - £200
Lot 279
279. Pruche (Clément) Le BO u L e va r D D u te m p L e § Bourdet (J.J.G.)
“Mets deux sous de plus…” (Betises no.16) § Draner. Un nouveau
tour de passé-passe de John Bull, (Actualités no.37); Toujours la!
(Actualités no.78), 1875 § Stop. Partez, muscade!, (Actualités
no.237), lithographed illustrations from “Le Charivari”, text on
backs, all but the third in heavy card mounts (5) £150 - £200
Lot 280
280. Tenniel (Sir John) and others. a COLLeCtiOn O f iLLustratiOns
extracted from the Illustrated London News, including Robert-Houdin
performing, 1848; The Christmas Conjuror, 1877; and Maskelyne
and Cooke’s Automata, 1878 § Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing
Room Companion (Boston): Macallister the Celebrated Wizard and
Magician, 1851, and Professor Anderson at the Melodeon, Boston,
1852 § Punch, including “Disraeli performing the ‘Extinquisher’
trick”, 1876, “Psycho à la Rus(s)e”, 1876, “Let Well Alone (the
Conjuror of the Exchequer)”, 1877, and “Under Which Thimble”,
1892, all by Tenniel; and many others, approximately 120 leaves in
all, various sizes, in case. £150 - £200
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