$80
[Foreign Languages] Collection of seventeen books and booklets on magic in various foreign languages. Including Nos Tours Favoris (French, ca. 1900), in two volumes, being a pictorial, illustrated guide to the effects of various magicians of the period including Arthur Margery and Ottokar Fischer; Handbok Nutidens Magi Kortkonster (Danish, “Handbook on Today’s Magic in Card Tricks,” Stockholm, 1886) by Professor Hoffman; works by Alexander Adrion including Die Kunst zu Zaubern (1978) and Adrion’s ZauberKabinett (1980; Signed); other German-language books on the history of conjuring; a Polish encyclopedia of magic and magicians, Vademecum Sztuki Iluzji (1985); and others. Sizes and bindings vary. Predominantly 1960s – 1980s. Condition generally good.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-11-01
