Set Reminder2024-07-11 12:00:002024-07-11 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Circus, Sideshow & Oddities https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/circus-sideshow-oddities-21903 This year's auction annual of the odd, the unusual, and the amazing is set to feature spectacular sideshow banners (including an incredible 37' long example from Caldwell), vibrant stone lithographs (including RBB&B favorites, and several Friedlander rarities), curiosities galore, and relics from the greatest shows on earth.
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LE?ROUX, Hugues (1860-1925).?Les Jeux du?Cirque?et la Vie Foraine. Paris: Plon, [1889]. Contemporary one-third crimson morocco gilt, marbled sides and endpapers (original wrappers retained). Numerous hand-colored illustrations by Jules Garnier. Includes illustrations of various circus promoters such as P.T. Barnum, acrobats, and sideshow acts such as tattooed people. 4to. Considered to be the most successful collaboration between?Le?Roux?and Garnier, the illustrations were procured from circus playbills and from photographs specially taken for the publication by Service Photographique de la Salpetriere. FIRST EDITION, one of 50 copies printed on Japon, this copy reserved for Joseph Bourdel. Toole?Stott (Circus) 445.