Conjuring & Circus: - Bloomsbury Auctions

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347. ne W s pa p e r s. The London Gazette, April 1, 1689, with
a notice for Street-Players, Mountebanks, Rope Dancers, and
others; The Chelmsford Chronicle, July 10,1789, with a notice
regarding the suppression of the Tiptree Fair; The Salisbury and
Winchester Journal, Oct.11, 1790, with illustrated advertisement
for The Amazing Pig of Knowledge, upper outer corners and
centre fold repaired; The Morning Chronicle, April 6, 1797, with
an advertisement for Breslaw’s New various Entertainments; The
Morning Chronicle, June 6, 1797, with an advertisements for
Breslaw’s New various Entertainments and Astley’s Amphitheatre;
The Courier and Evening Gazette Aug.25, 1797, advertising
the ventriloquist Mr, Askins at Sadler’s Wells; The Columbian
Centinel, Boston, Feb.2 1803, advertising a Learned Goat;
The Kaleidoscope, March 30, 1821, with an article on Indian
Conjurors; The Macclesfield Courier Jan.10, 1824, with a long
account of the murder of the gambler William Weare; The Satirist,
Jan.2, 1842m with a glowing review of T. Mathews as the clown
in “Sixteen -String Jack”; The Saturday Magazine, May 23, 1835,
with illustrastion of “The Indian Snake-Charmers”; Paul Pry, July
11, 1857, recording a performance by Professor Henri, the Original
Lilliputian Magician in Hull; and 16 other English and European
newspapers, all nineteenth century, in portfolio (27) £200 - £300
BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 348
348. pi C t O r i a L C a L e n D a r f O r 1816, two engraved sheets with six
illustrations depicting acrobats, musicians, a conjuror, and other
street performers, pasted to either side of a contemporary sheet of
card, slightly stained, 214mm. by 283mm., [Paris, 1815].
£200 - £300
*** A similar illustration of the conjuror appears in Scenes
Populaire 100 Sujets by Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, in reverse and with
no buildings in the background.
349. Pictorial Music Cover. Leduc (Alphonse) Le pe t i t sO r C i e r,
lithographed throughout, pictorial title by Moucelot after N.?
Ledoux, 5 pp. music, restitched, oblong folio (270mm. by 347mm.),
Paris, [c.1850]. £150 - £200
*** The large illustration depicts a young conjuror in Philippe-style
attire performing a card trick to a large audience, cups and balls and
other apparatus on the table before him.
350. Pictorial Music Covers. Caron (G. Wolframm) Le s jO y e u x
re f r a i n s, cover design incorporating a fortune teller, Paris,
Joly, [c.1860] § Delange (Ch.M.) and Auguste Oliver, L’Ecole-
Buissonnière, cover illustrations including a boy with a conjuror,
Paris, F. Gauvin, [c.1860] § Marotte (Jan) and Jean Cis. L’Amour
Magicien, Paris, [1934?], all with lithographed pictorial covers
and music § Recuil des Costumes de la Bretagne & des autres
Contrées, lithographed pictorial title-page with vignette of a
conjuror performing with cups and balls, soiled and worn, Nantes,
Charpentier, 1829/31, all in heavy card mounts, folio (4)
£100 - £150
Lot 351
351. Pictorial Music Covers. Walker (H.) th e qu i e t st r e e t,
or Love Making under Difficulties, cover design by T.H. Jones
incorporating various street performers, [c.1850] § Moinaux (J.)
and V. Parizot. Le Célèbre Mufflardini, cover design by Bouchol
depicting a street conjuror, Paris, [c.1860] § Abadie (Louis) La
Gaité de Paillasse, cover design by Edme Guichard depicting
a conjuror with his three children in a garret, Paris, [c.1860] §
Chautagne (J. Marc) La Veuve Bilboquet, cover design by Leo
Loire depicting a street conjuror dressed as a female African native,
Paris, 1865 § Barle (E.) and L. Godefroy. Musée Comique de la
Jeunesse, cover depicting four characters including a Charlatan,
Paris, [c.1875] § Marotte (Jan) and Jean Cis. L’Amour Magicien,
Paris, [1934?] § Hornez (André) and Henri Betti. Rien dans les
Mains, Rien dans les Poches, Paris, 1948, all with lithographed
covers and music, slightly soiled and worn § Les Chansonniers de
Montmartre: Jaques Ferny, illustrations including a conjuror with
a single cup, original wrappers, Paris, [c.1900]; and 5 others, folio
(13) £200 - £300