Set Reminder2025-12-14 12:00:002025-12-14 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Winter Magic Auction: featuring the Collection of Max Maven https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/winter-magic-auction-featuring-the-collection-of-max-maven-21893 Orson Welles wrote of Max Maven: "Yours is the most original mind in magic." This December, Potter & Potter is pleased to offer the very sources of information that helped supply that original mind, in the form of Max Maven's extensive collection and working library.
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ALBERTI, Giuseppe Antonio (1712-1768). I Giochi Numerici Fatti Arcani? Bologna: Bartolomeo Borghi, 1747. Small 8vo. Illustrated with 16 engraved plates. viii, 1-[314] pp. Bound in contemporary plain wrappers, with limp calf covers, ink titles on spine (binding worn, soiled, calf covers loose, wrappers worn and soiled, some foxing in text, several gutters starting, one plate with minor neat area removed at inner lower edge). Good. FIRST EDITION OF THIS POPULAR BOOK ON NUMBER GAMES AND SLEIGHT OF HAND TRICKS A classic Italian work with considerable space (and illustrations) devoted to the explanation of recreational mathematics, paper folding, puzzles, and conjuring tricks.