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Auction No 370, Tag: Magicians

3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)

A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including "The Astrologer's Magazine"

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £135
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A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including The Astrologer’s Magazine ( formerly The Conjuror’s Magazine) August to December 1793; W. Cockburn The Nature and Cures of Fluxes, 1724; Michael Quin A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 1836, with folding map; Bayle The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, 1743, with frontisp; Marksman’s The Dead Shot, four different editions; and J. Clarke The Wreck of the Orion, 1851, with litho plate. Most have clean text, but The Astrologer’s Magazine suffers from intermittent foxing. (15)

Cliff Green "Professional Card Magic", Louis Tannen, New York, 1961, quarto, full leather, gilt, pictorial onlay

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £74
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Cliff Green Professional Card Magic, Louis Tannen, New York, 1961, quarto, full leather, gilt, pictorial onlay, 159pp, VG; and Dai Vernon Malini and His Magic, Harry Stanley, [1962], 1st Edn., quarto, fine in very good original d/jkt, 108pp. No internal inscriptions. (2)

Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann "Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring"

Lot: 134

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
UNSOLD
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Professor Angelo Lewis Hoffmann Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring, George Routledge, 1877, 2nd Edition, original decorative cloth, gilt, recased with new endpapers, lower right corner to front board rounded; spotting to frontispiece, title and colophon o/w fine internally; xvi,509pp