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Tue, Jul 24, 2018 03:10AM EDT
Lot 325

Wonderful Fairy Sybil! Or Lady Magician!

Estimate: $700 - $900

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[Women Magicians] Wonderful Fairy Sybil! Or Lady Magician! Philadelphia: United States Job Printing Office, ca. 1857. Double-sided letterpress broadside heralding the appearance of Fairy Sybil and her show of ?Experiments, illusions, and deceptions in natural magic? at the Philadelphia Museum (?Late Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street?). Verso includes a list of 100 tricks from which her program will be composed. Chips, tears (one repaired with archival tape). Rare.