Set Reminder2024-06-08 12:00:002024-06-08 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Magicana: Featuring the Collection of Peter Hackhofer https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/magicana-featuring-the-collection-of-peter-hackhofer-21905 This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme.
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[BLOW BOOK]. Bilder-Zauberei fur Jung und Alt. Berlin: A. Sala, ca. 1870s. A magical volume whose contents appear to change each time the magician blows on it. Eight changes (alphabets; wild and domestic animals; playing cards; silhouettes; blank pages; domestic scenes; and others). Hand-colored title page and illustrations. Original linen wrappers (spine perished, chipping at edges from use), housed in original slipcover box with paper title label. 12mo. With instruction slip printed in English, German, and French. Flyleaf signed by an owner, Alex Kraft, 1 January [18]77. Scarce.