Set Reminder2025-02-15 12:00:002025-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-collection-of-edwin-a-dawes-part-iii-21889 Our final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art.
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ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 ? 74). Magic & Mystery, by Professor Anderson The Great Wizard of the North. [London], 1855. Pictorial letterpress double bill for Anderson's appearance at the Royal Lyceum Theatre for the week of October 29, 1855. Anderson presents twelve acts, including an expose of spirit rapping; the right side of the bill features a lengthy letter from D.D. Hume [Home] regarding his mediumship below a wood-engraved image showing table-tipping, a divining pendulum, and other inexplicable phenomena. Also advertised is the 104th edition of Anderson's Shilling's Worth of Magic. 20 x 19 ?". A few tears and pinholes, reinforced at verso, minor browning and old folds. A-.