£688
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Chemical Amusement. London: Thomas Boys, 1818. Second edition, 2 engraved plates, contemporary cloth, rebacked with calf;
The Boy's Own Conjuring Book. New York, 1860, 12mo, frontispiece, illus., original cloth, slightly spotted, neatly rebacked;
Drawing-Room Magic. A Manual of Mystical Mysteries. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1868, 8vo, illus., original cloth, rebacked with calf;
[Cremer, William H.] The Secret Out, or One thousand Tricks with Cards. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [c. 1859], 8vo, illustrations, 6pp. adverts at end, original cloth, some staining and soiling throughout, rebacked with calf, spine lettered in gilt;
Deschanel, A.P. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. London, 1871, 4 parts in 1 volume, contemporary half calf, rubbed;
Wood, Edward J. Curiosities of Clocks and Watches from the Earliest Times. 1866, frontispiece, red half morocco gilt;
Beeton, S.O. Beeton's Boy's Annual. London, 1868, plates, illus., contemporary half calf;
Hoffmann, Professor. Modern Magic. 1886, Fifth edition, illus., original pictorial cloth gilt, some pencil annotations, slightly rubbed, hinges a little weak; another copy. 1894. Ninth edition, original pictorial cloth gilt;
Morley, H. Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. 1892. Fourth edition, original cloth (10)
Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson