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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[GAMBLING]. GIOVANNI, Dolcetti. Le Bische e il Giuoco d?Azzardo a Venezia [Gambling Dens and Gambling in Venice]. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1903. 4to. [xvi], 1-[289], [3, blank] pp. Bound in twentieth-century marbled boards, brown gilt morocco lettering label on spine, original wrappers bound-in (spine toned, some edgewear to binding, text toned, some wear, soiling to wrappers). Very good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT BLANK TO CARLO ALBANI. With the bookplate of the Bibloteca Caproni and the Collezione Magica Roxy. Giovanni traces the history of gambling in Venice from 1172-1807. This book describes games, gambling dens, gambling houses, gambling stakes, cheaters, gambling criminals and their sentences.