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Tue, Nov 19, 2019 10:30PM EST
Lot 132

Lot of Antiquarian Volumes on Circus and Magic.

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Lot of Antiquarian Volumes on Circus and Magic. Including Circus Life (Tinsley Bros., 1875), Thomas Frost, gilt pictorial cloth, ex-libris Cornell University Library; Struggles and Triumphs (Warren, Johnson, 1875), Barnum; Acrobats and Mountebanks (Chapman and Hall, 1890), gilt pictorial cloth, shaken, bookplate removal from endpapers; Among the Freaks (Longmans, Green, 1896); Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (London, 1830); Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes (1870); Observations on Popular Antiquities (London, 1855), Brand, three vols; and The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869), Wilson and Caulfield, new endpapers. Condition fair to very good.