£575
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Chemical Amusement. 1819. Fourth edition, 2 engraved plates, contemporary calf, slightly worn at head of spine;
Hoyle, Edmond. Games Improved. 1826, 12mo, illus., modern quarter calf;
Scott, Walter. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. 1831. Second edition, 12mo, frontispiece, original cloth, rebacked with calf;
Sports and Amusements, for the Juvenile Philosopher. Middletown: E. Hunt, 1835. 12mo, frontispiece, illus., original cloth, some spotting and staining, rebacked;
[Davenport, R.A.] Sketches of Imposture, Deception and Credulity. 1837, 12mo, frontispiece, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;
The Young Man's Book of Amusement. Halifax, 1851, 12mo, folding frontispiece, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine;
Martin, W. The Book of Sports. 1852, 12mo, frontispiece, illus., pictorial boards, worn, neatly rebacked;
Timbs, John. Curiosities of History. 1857, frontispiece, original cloth, slightly rubbed;
The Boy's Own Conjuring Book. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [c.1860], 12mo, illus., original cloth, rubbed;
Every Boy's Book. 1863, 8vo, frontispiece, illus., original cloth, neatly recased, slightly rubbed;
Wood, J.G. The Boy's Own Treasury of Sports and Pastimes. G. Routledge, [n.d.], 8vo, original pictorial cloth, a few margins frayed, rebacked with blue morocco;
Morley, H. Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair. 1880, illus., original cloth (12)
Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson