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suffered by the translator. Many of these inaccuracies, it is claimed,
are corrected in this Dublin edition.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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ROBERT-HOUDIN (Jean E.).
Memoirs of Robert-
Houdin, ambassador, author, and conjuror. Written by himself.
[Translated by Lascelles Wraxall]. Copyright edition. In two
volumes.
Chapman and Hall,
1859
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pages xiv,293, (1): iv,271, (1,
blank), 16(adverts dated July 1, 1859),2 vols, 8vo, original blue
cloth, uncut: the bindings dull and lightly soiled but sound and
strong, light internal signs of use, but a good, sound copy in
original state.
Toole Stott, Conjuring, 602. The first English edition of the
autobiography of the French prestidigitator, the most influential
magician of the 19C, father of modern magic, whose shows in Paris
and London redefined the conjurer’s art.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BREWSTER (Sir David), FRS.
Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott.
John
Murray,
1832. FIRST EDITION, with 84 illustrations (2 with
hinged overlays), pages xi, 351, including the half-title, large
12mo, recent paper boards, with label, uncut: a very good
copy.
Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring, 136.
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FROST (Thomas).
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities.
Tinsley Brothers,
1876. FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 328, 8vo,
original blue cloth, gilt: the binding lightly discoloured but still
sound and strong and internally a fresh, clean copy.
“The classic history of the early English circus. Frost obtained the
facts for his book by sending round a questionaire to well-known
artistes in the circus and music-hall world and his book, therefore,
contains matter which is, in some respects unique. “ - Toole Stott 294.
(3)
[LEWIS (Angelo J.)].
Later Magic, with new
miscellaneous tricks and recollections of Hartz the Wizard. By
Professor Hoffmann. New and enlarged edition.
G. Routledge
1925. With portrait and 266 illustrations, pages (4), xviii, 737,
(1), 8vo, original cloth: the spine faded, with a faint library
number, the inside joints cracked, a stamp on both endpapers
and the lower fore-edge: a clean and very good copy. (5)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
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[ROBERTSON (Joseph)].
The Parian Chronicle, or the
chronicle of the Arundelian Marbles; with a dissertation
concerning its authenticity.
London, Printed for J. Walter,
Charing-Cross,
1788
FIRST EDITION, with a folding engraved plate, pages
viii,225, (23), with the half-title (with inscription “R. Farquhar
the gift / of Mr. Robinson”), 8vo, recent paper boards: with
some light old staining but still a very good, well-margined
copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ELMES (James).
General and
bibliographical dictionary of the fine arts. Containing
explanations of the principal terms used in … painting,
sculpture, architecture, and engraving … historical sketches of
the rise and progress of their different schools; descriptive
accounts of the best books and treatises on the fine arts …
Printed for Thomas Tegg …,
1826. FIRST EDITION, pp viii,
(792), without half-title, 8vo, recent boards: a very good copy.
(2)
PARRY (Thomas Gambier).
The ministry of fine art to
the happiness of life. Essays on various arts. Revised edition -
with index.
John Murray,
1887. BEST EDITION, pages viii,
387,24(adverts) and errata slip, 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by Nall
of Yarmouth, with ticket: a very good to nice copy.
(3)
PALGRAVE (Francis Turner).
Essays on Art …
London
and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.,
1866. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, pp viii, 315, (1), 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt:
very good.
(4)
WHITHARD (Philip).
Illuminating and Missal Painting
on Paper and Vellum. 1909. Well illustrated, pages vii, 148 and
iv, (2) ads, cr 8vo, original stiff printed wraps: nice.
(5)
MILNER (John).
A treatise on the ecclesiastical
architecture of England, during the middle ages, with ten
illustrative plates. Third edition, with corrections.
Printed for
John Weale …,
1835. With 10 plates (lightly foxed), pages (6),
xxv, 134, (2, adverts), 8vo, original paper boards, uncut, neatly
rebacked in cloth with new label: a very good copy.
(6)
RICKMAN (Thomas).
An attempt to discriminate the
styles of English architecture, from the Conquest to the
Reformation; preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman
Orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings.
Published by Longman, Hurst …J. and J. Smith, printers, Liverpool
[1817]. FIRST EDITION in book form, with 14 plates, pp iv,
(1), 146, 8vo, original boards, uncut, neatly and plainly
rebacked: some light staining in places, but still a very good
copy. (7)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
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ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND.
[binding title:]
Photographs of Robinson Crusoe’s [sic] Island (Juan
Fernandez).
Circa 1875
Oblong 4to album of 20 thick card leaves, each bearing an
original mounted photograph, each 9. 25 by 6. 25 inches, 16
are signed on the image “Foto Allan / Valpo” and 4 are signed
“Grafia Leblanc”, original half green morocco, gilt: a little
worn at corners and headbands but the binding sound and
strong, the images in very good state.
The photographer’s reference numbers on the Allan imags are 113,
1032, 1110, 1108, 1107, 1104, 1111, 1109, 1100, 1102, 1112, 1106,
1105. There are no numbers on the Leblanc images. Allan’s
unnumbered image of a bearded man, with cap, standing before a
ramshakle bungalow, with a coil of heavy rope in the foreground is
included here.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
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ROCHON (Alexis Marie).
A Voyage to Madagascar
and the East Indies … to which is added, M. Brunel’s Memoir
of the Chinese Trade … Translated by Joseph Trapp.
Illustrated with an original map of Madagascar, drawn by M.
Robert. Translated from the French, by Joseph Trapp, A. M.
Printed for Edward Jeffery …,
1793
With a large folding engraved map (short closed tear without
loss), pages lxiv, (17) - 406 and errata leaf, complete thus, with
the half-title, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spine, with
contrasting label, gilt: a very good copy.
Rochon was sent to the East Indies to conduct a hydrographic survey
of the Indian Ocean. His account of Madagascar, written with a view
to showing the advantages which might be derived from French
settlements there, includes much valuable information on the flora of
the island, including a chapter on the cocoa tree, a detailed account of
the sugar plantations, describes the processing of the sugar cane and
recommends that the steam engine could be employed to great
advantage in the sugar factories. He was, as Cox notes, “a member of
several learned Academies in Europe. ” His contributions to the
history and contemporary state of Madagascar are considerable. His
work is also notable for reprinting Roberts’ 1727 map of the island.
However, it is probably most interesting for its translation by Trapp, of
Brunel’s important and early memoir on the China trade.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
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