Macaire, Sid. Descriptive Catalogue of New and Superior Wonders in the Art of High-Grade Prestidigitation. Chicago, ca. 1890. “Second edition.” Pictorial wrappers. 8vo. Cover stamped “Chas. L. Burlingame/Predecessor & Successor…”. Macaire worked for Houdini on at least one of the escape artists’ early tours of England; he was also employed by Chung Ling Soo.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-04-26
Incunabula Typographica, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters. Baltimore, MD: Walters, 1906. First Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2019-07-23
Humber, James. Prof. R. Rebmuh’s Descriptive Catalogue of New and Original Anglo-American Illusions. Leicester, ca. 1910. Original printed pale orange wrappers. 8vo. 24 pages. Change Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
M. Hartz’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Conjuring & Magical Apparatus. New York, 1873. Original pictorial wrappers retained in full red leather binding, stamped in blind Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Roterberg, A. No. 1 Descriptive Catalogue of the Latest European Novelties. Chicago, ca. 1894. Pink printed wraps. 12mo. 20 pages. Likely the earliest Roterberg catalog, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Hartz’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Conjuring and Magical Apparatus. [New York], 1873. Blue pictorial wrappers depicting the magic shop, bound in brown cloth. Contains numerous Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Willshire, William Hughes. A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum. London: British Museum Trustees, 1876 - 1877. Embossed black cloth, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-05-18
Raspe, R.E., A Descriptive Catalogue of Engraved Gems . London: C. Buckton, printer, 1791. Two volumes, A general collection of Ancient and Modern engraved gems, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-01-12
Pike's Illustrative Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical & Philosophica Benjamin Pike, New York, 1848, 2 vols., over 750 engravings, frontisspieces in both volumes showing different Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-10-28
Roterberg, A. No. 1 Descriptive Catalogue of the Latest European Novelties. Chicago: Roterberg, ca. 1899. Pink printed wraps. 12mo. Marginal notes in pencil, one closed Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
Somerfield’s Descriptive Catalogue of Entirely New and Superior Wonders… Wolverhampton, ca. 1880. Pictorial wraps. 8vo. Pages loose in wraps, chipped, staples rusted. Fair. Still, and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
