£813
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
The Fashionable Science of Popular Magic. Published by the Great Wizard of the North at his Royal Psycomantheum, [c.1850-60], 8vo illus., modern green morocco, corner of title worn away (without loss of text);
The Parlor Magician. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [?1863], 8vo, illus., original wrappers bound in (upper wrapper with some loss), modern quarter black morocco;
Blitz, Signor. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle. Hartford, Conn., 1871, portrait, frontispiece, plates, illus., original green cloth, rubbed;
Garenne, H. [i.e. F. Lind] The Art of Modern Conjuring, Magic and Illusions. [?1886], 351pp., original pictorial green cloth gilt;
Hoffmann, Professor. Modern Magic. London, 1877. Second edition, frontispiece, illus., original blue pictorial cloth gilt, neatly rebacked retaining original spine;
Joyce, J. Scientific Dialogues for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young People. London: Bohn, 1852, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, corners slightly rubbed;
Greenwood, James. Silas Horner's Adventures, or the Captive Conjurers. London: Ward Lock, [c.1874], original pictorial cloth, lacks front free endpaper, slightly rubbed;
Hercat. Latest Sleights, Illusions, Mind Reading... London, 1906, frontispiece, illus., modern cloth (8)
Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson