Scientific Mysteries: How to Produce The Most Interesting Chemical, Optical and Physical Illusions. London: Offices of ‘The Chemist and Druggist,’ 1896. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in four colors. Illustrated. 8vo. Minor spots and discoloration to cloth, a few scuffs internally; good.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Maskelyne’s Mysteries Magical Constructor No. 1. The Phantom Air Mail. London: Lewis Davenport & Co., ca. 1949. Stiff pictorial wrapper contains a 20 x 30” Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Attributed to Dubois et Fils, Locle. Made for the Chinese market circa 1800. Fine and very rare 18K gold, diamond-set, dead center-seconds pocket watch with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
The Abduction of Helen Attributed to Bovet, made for the Chinese market, circa 1835. Extremely fine and rare large dead center-seconds watch with duplex escapement. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
Leipzig: ben Weidmann Erben & Reich, 1787. Thin 8vo, marble paper covered boards. Ernst Chladni is credited as the founder of modern acoustic studies. This Read more…
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-04-05
Engstrom, A.B. The Humorous Magician Unmasked. [Philadelphia]: Author, 1836. Modern half brown leather, gilt stamped. Marbled endsheets. Nine plates at rear. 12mo. p. [1 – Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
[Miscellaneous – Booklets] Stack of dozens of vintage booklets on various tricks, sleights, and techniques. Including Compiled Magic of ‘Doc’ Maxam Vol. 1 (1954) by Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
[Mind-Reading] Group of Four Vintage Booklets. Including Secrets of Hazel Kolar, Queen of Mind Readers (ca. 1900); Mysteries of the Sance (1903); How to Read Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-12-05
[Gambling –Booklets] Five booklets on confidence gambling and card sharping. Including Tricks and Traps (ca. 1920), Card Sharper’s Tricks Exposed (ca. 1920), How Gamblers Cheat; Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-05-31
[Mentalism] Collection of 28 books about mentalism. Including Between Two Minds Too by Walter Pharr and Ned Rutledge (2001), Clue and Other Mysteries by Jack Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-05-22
“Pouzait Escapement” Breguet et Fils, Swiss, circa 1810. Very fine and rare 18K gold, dead centerseconds pocket watch with Pouzait escapement and quarter repeating. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
