The Great Chinese Wizard’s Hand-book of Magic. New York: Hurst & Co., ca. 1872. “A Manual of Experimental Magic … Including the Beautiful and Entertaining Art of Making Fireworks.” Pictorial boards, with contemporary cloth spine. Illustrated with one diagram. 8vo. Browning to boards and pages, else very good. Toole Stott 319.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Great Chinese Wizard’s Handbook of Magic. New York: Hurst & Co., (ca. 1872). Orange pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. 8vo. Extremities worn and chipped, one corner clipped; Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Carter, Charles.Carter. Impersonating the Great Chinese Magicians. Chicago: Goes Litho, ca. 1905. Carter appears in Chinese costume along with his wife, Corinne, performing various feats Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Carter, Charles. Carter Impersonating the Great Chinese Magicians. Chicago, Goes Litho., ca. 1905. Half-sheet color lithograph depicting Carter's performances of various Chinese feats including the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-10-23
Burlingame, H.J. Trio of Books on Herrmann the Great. Including Herrmann the Great (Chicago, 1897; two edns.) and Magician’s Handbook (Chicago, 1942). Cloth, pictorial wrappers. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Chinese Export Porcelain Creamer Decorated with the Great Seal of the United States, late 18th century, helmet-form creamer with simulated cane handle, the rim with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
Nesbitt. The Great Nesbitt Mysteries. Smoke letters. [London, ca. 1920]. Nesbitt, in Chinese costume, presents the smoke vase effect, the smoke curling into the air Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
[Wong, Dr.] The Great North China Troupe. Wellington: Deslandes, ca. 1920. Broadside advertising an appearance of this Chinese variety show featuring Dr. Wong the “Renowned Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
Chinese Export Embroidery Commemorating The Great White Fleet, with printed silk portraits of Roosevelt flanked by two Admirals, over photograph of two sailors, on flags Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2002-12-13
China trade oil on canvas portrait of Chinese statesman Aison Gioro Keying, ca. 1840 , inscribed on frame Keying the Great Chinese Commissioner___the___ . Read more…
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2014-01-18
Andoe, F. Two Nights Only!!! Mr. Andoe, The Great Southern Wizard. Drogheda: Kelly, 1841. Letterpress broadside filled with elaborate claims and wild descriptions of the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
