[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…

[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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…