Hamley Bros. Ltd. Book of Magic and Mystery

Douglas Cleverdon (The Twelfth of the Clover Hill Editions, 1981) Printed on Velin d'Arches paper. Cover measures 12 1/2" x 10" Book purchased at Maggs Bros Ltd Rare Books in London, England in 2011.

#1599 from Burton Sperber’s Checklist of Conjuring Catalogs. Hamley’s Book of Magic 1925. Tan cover with dark brown text and an illustration of a wizard. 8.5” x 11” with 60 pages. 200-202 Rege

Hamley’s. Group of Three Hamley’s Magic Catalogs. Including Book of Magic (1920s), publisher’s pictorial wraps, illustrated 4to, 48 pages, rear wrapper chipped; Magical Conjuring Tricks (1930s),

Over 30 Mid-Century Magic Books. Including Marvels of Mystery by John Booth (1944); Abbott’s Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks ([1945]); Mental Magic by Al Baker (1949); Rings in Your Fingers by Dariel Fi

Great pair Italian giltwood carved sea creatures, 18th/19th c., Venice, plastered, bole and gilt carved wood, elaborately carved book matched figures depicting stylized fish on waves, likely architect

Pair large English pine faux-book cabinets, 19th c. and adapted, England, white pine case mounted with two hinged doors decorated with carved and polychrome painted faux book spines, centered between

Pablo Picasso, etchings in book, Pablo Picasso (Spanish/French, 1881-1973), (6) etchings illustrating "Aristophanes, Lysistrata: A New Version" by Gilbert Seldes, 1934, limited editions club version n

Alex Katz, collection of etchings, Alex Katz (American, b. 1927), "Light as Air", book by Ron Padgett, containing (12) pencil signed aquatint etchings, 1989, pen signed on front page, dedicated to "Ro

BOOK: 903 La Femme et Le Pantin Fine Binding, Pierre Louys. La Femme Et Le Pantin. Hardcover. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. LÉdition De L'Art. H. Piazza & Cie. Paris. 1903. Illustrations de P. Roig. Decor

The Limited Editions Club, Genesis, Jacob Lawrence, The First Book of Moses, called Genesis. The King James Version. 1989, silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence, each with tissue overlay, No. 132 of 400 copie

Group (4) Russian icons, oil on panel, 19th/20th c., oil and gilding on wood panels, includes, Saint Nicholas holding an open book, inscription on verso in cyrillic, 12"h x 10"w; Saint Nicholas holdin

(5) "Postkarten" cases: postcard collection, 20th c., book-form cases containing postcards of Old Master paintings, Russia and Russian royalty, 6"h x 4.5"w x 1.75" (cases)

Henri Matisse, etchings in book, Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), (6) etchings illustrating "Ulysses" by James Joyce, 1935, limited edition club 68/1,500, limitation page pencil signed by Matisse, 1

British School, (9) watercolor fruit studies, British School (19th c.), Possibly for or after plates from a botanical or agricultural book, includes 4 pears, 3 cherries, a plum, and a nectarine, each

Pair Wedgwood black basalt oil lamps, 19th c., England, each boat shape lamp decorated with raised flowers and vines, a figure of a seated woman forming the handle, one depicted reading a book, the ot

Pair huge Meissen style figural spill vases, 19th c., Germany, book-matched pair of glazed porcelain figural groups in the form of a huntsman and two setters rounding a tree stump, marked on the under

Maison Bagues (after), pair "Perroquet" sconces, 20th c., gilt iron, cast glass, in the form of book matched Parrots centered among flowering vines scrolls supporting two electrified candlesticks, 21"

Herbert Stoops, painting, 1946, Herbert Morton Stoops (American, 1888-1948), "The Great Waterway", oil on canvas, July 1946 cover illustration for Blue Book Magazine, signed on reverse, framed without

(3) Carl Thieme porcelain pug models, 20th c., German, hand-painted porcelain, incl. book matched figures of male and female dogs, bearing maker's mark under belly, and mother with puppy figural group

(3) Chinese sancai glazed Buddhist lions, Qing Dynasty (19th c.), book-matched pair, one with ball and one with pup, on custom wood stands, with an older finely cast example on ceramic pedestal decora

Pair Italian olivewood bombe commodes, 20th c., Italian, highly figured book-matched veneers, bronze pulls, each 34"h x 38"w x 19"d Provenance: Property removed from 983 Park Avenue, NY

Chinese sancai shrine and lion candlesticks, Likely Kangxi Era (18th c.), the Buddha seated on lotus base, together with a book-matched pair of Buddhist lion candlesticks, 10"h (larger), 8"h (smaller)

Chinese Islamic Market Export porcelain bowl, Qing Dynasty (18th/19th c.), red and black enameled porcelain, the bowl bottom decorated with a magic square, the bowl walls with concentric bands of blac

Robert Rauschenberg, mixed media sculpture, 1975, Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008), "Charter" (from Bones and Unions), Rag-mud and rope, magic marker signed, dated and numbered 15/15 verso, p