[Gambling] Group of Antiquarian and Vintage Books on Crooked Gambling. Including Card-Sharpers (1891) by Robert-Houdin; Sharps and Flats (1894) by Maskelyne; Monte Carlo: Secret Service Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-07-08
[Conjuring] Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Two Works on Conjuring. Including Magie et Physique Amusante (Paris, 1877) and Comment on Devient Sorcier (Paris, 1878). Matching nineteenth century Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-07-08
"Cheval de Courses" pattern, designed by Anamorph�e (Bertrand Houdin and Charlotte Halpern). Labeled within the print: Hermes. 36"x36". No visible condition issues. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2017-06-13
Bishop, Washington Irving. Houdin and Heller’s Second Sight Explained. Edinburgh & Glasgow: John Menzies, 1880. Publisher’s pictorial wraps in gray and black. 8vo. Ex-libris John Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Magie et Physique Amusante. Paris: Calmann Levy, 1877. First edition. Modern purple board, black leather spine with gilt tile compartments, marbled endsheets. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Life and Adventures of Robert Houdin the Celebrated French Conjuror. New York: Excelsior Publishing House, [1885]. Yellow pictorial wrappers bound in brown Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène. Album des Soirées Fantastiques de Robert-Houdin au Palais Royal. Paris, ca. 1849. Handsome souvenir booklet bears an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Autograph Letter Signed, “Robert Houdin,” to a Book Dealer. Blois, France, 1866. One sheet of blind-embossed hotel stationery, asking the correspondent to Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Evans, Henry Ridgely. Group of Eight Pamphlets, and One Corrected Essay. Including a six-page proof copy of “The Astounding Career of Giacomo Casanova” (posthumously published Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Theatre Robert-Houdin Entrance Ticket. Paris, 1877. A pass for two guests to the theater named in the great magician’s honor, and which Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10