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Collection of More than 25 Antique French Journals and Prints Relating to Magic. Mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. Including 16 complete issues of journals including Le Sourire, Le Rire, Petit Journal Pour Rire, and others, whose pages feature artwork of magicians, plus a quantity of individually trimmed and mounted illustrations from those periodicals; a piece of sheet music, Le Flaneur (Paris, ca. 1870s) whose cover depicts Cups and Balls performer; a chromolithograph trade card of a magician; and other engravings, some colored.


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Date:
2016-08-27

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