Set Reminder2022-04-30 12:00:002022-04-30 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Circus, Sideshow & Oddities https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/circus-sideshow-oddities-21951 Our annual auction of Circus, Sideshow, and Oddities features the second offering of rare photographs from the remarkable collection of Gary Bart, one of the most significant collections of its kind in private hands.
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A Complete Illustrated History of Animals Contained in the Department of Comparative Zoology, and all the Curiosities with P.T. Barnum?s Greatest Show on Earth. New York: New York Popular Publishing Co., [n.d., ca. 1890s?]. Hand-colored engraved wrappers [lower lacking] illustrated a female elephant, a baby in her trunk. Page at start advertises sideshow acts including Che-Mah, Major Atom, Wild Men of Borneo, Myrtle Corbin The Four-Legged Girl; Brustad, the Norway Goliath, and others. Illustrated with color-stenciled wood-engravings of wild animals. 30pp. Tall 8vo. Chipping to edges, some offsetting.