Sothebys: Printed Books and Maps, INCLUDING THE PERFORMING ARTS, LOGIE,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 17, 1993 - February 17, 1993
Page Size: 1130 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1001 TAMARA KARSAVINA Theatre Street

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 200.00
1002 CHARLES HEATH Beauties of the Opera and Ballet

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 200.00
1003 ALEXIS RASSINE An extensive collection of archival

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 200.00
1004 JEANNE HEATON A series of sixteen scrapbooks

1920-1938

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1005 VIVIEN LEIGH A group of signatures

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 400.00
1006 THEATRICAL PORTRAITS

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 1,200.00
1007 THEATRICAL AUTOGRAPHS

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1008 ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF THEATRICAL AUTOGRAPHS

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1009 JAMES S. HENDERSON A series of ten fine ink

1915-1920

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 200.00
1010 NINE COSTUME DESIGNS

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1011 D. CARLETON SMYTH A collection of forty ink

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 280.00
1012 AUX STONE A large ink and watercolour

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 300.00
1013 ALICE SOULIE a large lithographed poster

1926

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 320.00
1014 AMBASSADEURS

1926

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
1015 BRANSBY WILLIAMS three lithographed portraits David Allen

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
1016 EAST LYNNE

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 180.00
1017 FOLIES BERGERE LE DOCTEUR BLANC

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
1018 YVETTE GUILBERT lithographed poster printed in colour

1899

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
1019 HARRY LAUDER Three large lithographed posters

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 180.00
1020 LA LOUPIOTE lithographed design after Poulbol

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
1021 MISTINGUETT

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 250.00
1022 MISTINGUETT

1937

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
1023 MOORE AND BURGESS MINSTRELS

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 320.00
1024 OLYMPIA

1907

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 450.00
1025 PERCYHONRIIN CONCORDIA

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 260.00
1026 PLAYBILLS

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 220.00
1027 YE OLDE ENGLISH PROGRAMMES

1756-1869

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 600.00
1028 WILLIAM ANDREW Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
1029 LES SPECTACLES INSTRUCTIFS

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 950.00
1030 BARNUM AND BAILEY Souvenir for P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 600.00
1031 BERTRAM MILLS' CIRCUS

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1032 BERTRAM MILLS' CIRCUS

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 130.00
1033 GUENTER BOEHMER Showmen

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 320.00
1034 CIRCUS AUTOMATON

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 80.00
1035 CIRCUS PERFORMERS

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 400.00
1036 GASTON ESCUDIER Les Saltimbanques

1692

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 850.00
1037 MAURICE FEAUDIERRE "Serge"

1931

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 170.00
1038 VICTOR FOURNEL Le Vieux Paris

1929

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
1039 LOUISEV

1948

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 200.00
1040 JULES LEOTARD Memoires, second edition

1890

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 340.00
1041 SPECIALITY ACTS

1905-1960

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 1,800.00
1042 ANTHONY MADOX Engraved portrait with surrounding

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 320.00
1043 WHIMSICAL WALKER From Sawdust to Windsor

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 850.00
1044 CHARLES S. STRATTON "GENERAL TOM THUMB"

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
1045 HENRY WILSON Wonderful Characters

1872

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 240.00
1046 BOLOSSY KIRALFY Author and Producer. The Orient at Olympia

1895

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 180.00
1047 COOKE'S CIRCUS

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 600.00
1048 COOKES CIRCUS

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
1049 COOKE'S CIRCUS

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
1050 COOKE'S CIRCUS

GBP 600.00 - 800.00 400.00
1051 COOKE'S CIRCUS

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
1052 TOURNIAIRES FRENCH ROYAL CIRCUS

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
1053 MISS CASHMORE Sport Act Hamburg

1910

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 120.00
1054 CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS Lisbon

1950

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1055 S.F. CODY Four lithographed posters

1900

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
1056 LAWRENCES CIRCUS

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
1057 SCHNELLSTE MANN DER WELT Hamburg

1928

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 160.00
1058 TROUPE SARATTOS Bradford

1950

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 160.00
1059 WILL AYLING The Art of Illusion

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 220.00
1060 Sir DAVID BREWSTER Letters on Natural Magic

1930

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 400.00
1061 JOHN HENRY ANDERSON The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic

1873

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 420.00
1062 BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW The Life and Adventures Bath

1802

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
1063 MELBOURNE CHRISTOPHER Panorama of Magic

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
1064 CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 450.00
1065 CONJURING CATALOGUES

1900

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 320.00
1066 CONJURING CATALOGUES

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 300.00
1067 W.H. CREMER The Secret Out

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 260.00
1068 HENRY DEAN Hocus Pocus Glasgow

1886

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 280.00
1069 HENRI DECREMPS Codicile de Jerome Sharp

1793

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 280.00
1070 JOSEPH DUNNINGER Complete Encyclopedia of Magic

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 180.00
1071 J.B. FINDLAY Juggling through Four Reigns

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,000.00
1072 OTTOKAR FISCHER Illustrated Magic

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 280.00
1073 LEWIS CANSON Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 100.00
1074 THE GEN New York

1963

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 280.00
1075 WILL GOLDSTON More Exclusive Magical Secrets

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 200.00
1076 WILL GOLDSTON The Magician Annual

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 380.00
1077 ROBERT HARBIN Magic of Robert Harbin

1979

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 460.00
1078 HERO OF ALEXANDRIA

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 300.00
1079 Greater Magic

1970-1987

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
1080 Professor LOUIS HOFFMANN A.J. LEWIS

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 350.00
1081 [A. J. Lewis] Tricks with Cards

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 350.00
1082 HARRY HOUDINI [ERICH WEISS]

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 160.00
1083 THOMAS INGLEBY Ingleby's Whole Art of Legerdemain

1815

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,150.00
1084 INSTRUCTIONS

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 140.00
1085 CARLO LORENZINI "CARLO COLLODI"

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 380.00
1086 THE MAGIC CIRCULAR Ohio

1968-1922

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 180.00
1087 PERCY NALDRETT Magic of the Moment

1927

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 120.00
1088 c. LANG NEIL After-Dinner Sleights

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
1089 PARLOUR MAGIC

1888

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 300.00
1090 JEAN JOSEPH PINETTI Amusemens Physiques

1791

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 680.00
1091 J.N. PONSIN Supplement a la Sorcellerie Ancienne et Moderne Berlin

1912

GBP 175.00 - 235.00 600.00
1092 HARRY PRICE Short-Title Catalogue of Works on Psychical Research Derby

1976-1978

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 380.00
1093 JEAN EUGENE ROBERT-HOUDIN Confidences d'un Prestidigitateur

1859

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 600.00
1094 JEAN EUGENE ROBERT-HOUDIN Memoirs of Robert Houdin

1881

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
1095 TOM SELLERS A collection of instructional books and pamphlets

GBP 175.00 - 225.00 120.00
1096 JOSEPH STRUTT The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

1951

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 300.00
1097 J DAZLEY THEOBALD Magic and its Mysteries

1901

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 170.00
1098 HARRY STANLEY Magic on the Halls Pasadena

1989

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 140.00
1099 PERCY TIBBLES The Magician's Handbook

1938

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 150.00
1100 TRICKS IN MAGIC New Jersey

1919

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
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