London Conjuring Trick Works. London, ca. 1889. Includes small insert price list. Modern red boards with gilt stamped spine. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Light foxing on title page; very good. An uncommon and early conjuring apparatus catalog. Early in his career, the great Belgian magician Servais LeRoy learned and purchased many magic tricks at Hiam’s store.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Hiam, Frank. The London Conjuring Trick Works. London: Frank Hiam, ca. 1882. Pictorial wraps bound in boards, spine gilt stamped. Well illustrated. 8vo. Foxed. Good. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Hiam, Frank. The London Conjuring Trick Works. London: Frank Hiam, ca. 1882. Pictorial wraps, chipped at extremities. Well illustrated. 8vo. Binding re-stapled. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Millikin and Lawley's Catalogue of Conjuring Tricks. London, n.d. (ca. 1890). Publisher's pink wraps, copiously illustrated with woodcuts. 4to. Extremities chipped and lightly soiled, but Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-05-16
[Monographs] Group of 56 monographs on various subjects in the history of magic and conjuring. Including Recollections of Robert-Houdin (1898) by William Manning; Behind the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-11-01
[Miscellaneous] Twenty-one early twentieth century books on conjuring and related subjects. Including Maskelyne’s Book of Magic (David McKay, ca. 1935) and White Magic (Stanley Paul, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
Boy’s Holyday Book for All Seasons. London: G.H. Davidson, (1850). Second edition. Embossed cloth gilt stamped. Illustrated. 8vo. Spine sunned, otherwise good. Toole Stott 110. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Locked Ring Boxes. London, J. Martin, 1945. A vanished ring reappears inside the innermost of two engraved and gilded silver boxes, even though the smaller Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
Bachet, Claude Gaspard de Meziriac. Problemes Plaisans et Delectables, Qui Se Font Par Les Nombres: Partie Recueillis De Divers Autheurs, Partie Inventez De Nouveau Avec Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
