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The Magic Collection of Ray Goulet

Thu, Mar 28, 2019 09:30PM EDT
Lot 455

Professor Crambrook. Feats of Magical Delusion.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Crambrook, W.H. Professor Crambrook. Feats of Magical Delusion. Lambeth: J.W. Peel?s Steam Machine, 1848. Early English letterpress double-bill broadside advertising a mixed bill of musical performances, and the ?indescribable metamorphoses, unrivaled tours de Phyisique? of Crambrook. 15 x 19 ??. Old folds. A-. Rare. Crambrook is best remembered as a Dickensian purveyor of conjuring apparatus. Trade catalogs for his London-based magic emporium are the earliest known in English.