Holiday Entertainment; or, The Good Child’s Fairing. Glasgow: Lumsden and Son, (ca. 1803). Buff printed wraps. Illustrations in text. 32mo (chapbook). In a drop-spine box. Very good. Rare. Toole Stott 1082 (locating one copy, in the British Library). Includes references to “Mr. Andrew” and his tricks, as well as Punch & Judy.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Holiday Frolics or Endless Amusement for the Christmas Fireside. London: W. Strange, 1830. Marbled boards over red leather spine stamped in gold. Hand-colored frontispiece. Pp. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1803-1857) American Ornithology; or the Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson. Philadelphia: Published by Mitchell; sold Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-11-12
Lupton, Donald (d. 1676) The Glory of Their Times. Or The Lives of ye Primitive Fathers, Co[n]tayning their Chiefest Actions, Workes, Sentences, and Deaths. London: Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2019-07-23
P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth. Nero, or the Destruction of Rome. Buffalo: Courier Co., ca. 1890. A courier advertisement, printed in color, of the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-07-23
Maxam Ring Illusion or the Freer Linking Rings. St. Albans Vermont, Winston Freer, ca. 1942. Set of three 6” diameter rings and gimmick that allow Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
Endless Amusements: or, The Art of Legerdemain Made Easy to Young Persons. Boston: Theodore Abbot, 418 Washington Street, 1846. Twelfth Edition. Marbled wrappers (apparently original), Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
The Conjuror's Repository, Or, The Whole Art and Mystery of Magic Displayed. London: J.D. Dewick, for T. and R. Hughes, ca. 1805. Gilt-stamped leather, spine Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
[Fortune-Telling] Raphael. Raphael’s Witch; or The Oracle of the Future. London: William Charlton Wright, 1850. Contemporary plain cloth, paper title label on spine. Folding engraved Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) Picturesque America; or, the Land We Live in. New York: Appleton, 1872-1874. Two thick large quarto volumes, first edition in book Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first issue, with the fireside plate used Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
