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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BISHOP, Washington Irving (1855 ? 1889). Second Sight Explained. A Complete Exposition of Clairvoyance or Second Sight, as Exhibited by the Late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller. Edinburgh & Glasgow: John Menzies, 1880. Printed purple wrappers. 8vo. Bookplates of Richard Armour and Edwin Dawes. An unusually well-preserved example.This booklet was written by Frederick Wicks; Bishop's name was used with permission. An expanded edition under Wicks' name was issued in 1907.