The Ricky Jay Collection
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Lot 297
[ROBERT-HOUDIN] HAMILTON (Pierre Etienne Chocat, 1812 – 77)...
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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[ROBERT-HOUDIN] HAMILTON (Pierre Etienne Chocat, 1812 ? 77). Th??tre Robert-Houdin. Souvenir des S?ances d?Hamilton. Paris: Jouaust, ca. 1862. Printed orange wrappers. Lithographic frontispiece of Hamilton. Five plates, including, the classic image of Robert-Houdin presenting the Orange Tree automaton. Oblong 12mo. Foxed and soiled with faint dampstains, but sturdy and sound; good. In a cloth-covered slipcase, spine strip titled and ruled in gilt. Hamilton was Jean Eug?ne Robert-Houdin?s pupil and successor. He moved his mentor?s famous theatre to the Boulevard des Italiens in the 1850s and remained its principal performer and proprietor for years. This souvenir booklet was modeled on the Album des Soir?es Fantastiques of Robert-Houdin, published in 1849.
