The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
Sat, Oct 28, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Lot 278
STONE, Solomon. Three Books on Lightning Calculation and Tr...
Estimate: $400 - $800
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STONE, Solomon.?THREE BOOKS ON LIGHTNING CALCULATION AND TRICK MATHEMATICS.?Including: Solomon Stone?s Marvelous Mental Calculator. New York: NY Popular Publishing, ca. 1880. Hand-colored pictorial wraps. ? Sol. Stone?s Short Cut Arithmetic or Figures Made Easy. Circa 1880. Yellow pictorial wraps (half of lower lacking). ? and another, in orange pictorial wraps with an image of Stone at the blackboard on the front and a bust portrait on the verso. Together three ephemeral works describing a host of shortcuts and arithmetical tricks used by Stone throughout his career on Barnum?s sideshow and elsewhere. See?Exemplars, page 238.
