Hoffmann, Professor . Tricks with Cards ca. 1885

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo Lewis). Tricks with Cards. London, ca. 1884. First Edition. Scarce variant with publisher's color lithographed pictorial boards. Frontispiece. Illustrated with engravings.

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo J. Lewis). Four Volumes on Conjuring. Including Conjuring Tricks with Coins, Watches, Rings and Handkerchiefs (London, ca. 1900s); Card Tricks With Apparatus (London, ca. 1

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo Lewis). Tricks with Cards. London: Frederick Warne, 1889. Pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated. 8vo. 250 + 2 leaves advts. Nineteenth century bookplate an

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo Lewis). Tricks with Cards: A Complete Manual of Card Conjuring. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. Publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in colors. Illus

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo Lewis). Tricks with Cards. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1889. Pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated. 8vo. 250 + 2 leaves advts. Bookplate of J

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo J. Lewis). Tricks with Cards. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1889. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, stamped in four colors. Illustrated. 8vo. Rubbing to boards, canted, c

Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo J. Lewis). Parlor Amusements and Evening Party Entertainments. New York: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1885. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold. Illustrated w

4 TITLES BY PROFESSOR HOFFMANN: LATER MAGIC, MODERN MAGIC, TRICKS WITH CARDS.

Erdnase, S.W. The Expert at the Card Table. Three editions, comprising: Fleming, 1940 (blue cloth, with critical commentary by Professor Hoffmann); Frost, ca. 1930s (yellow pictorial wrappers); and Ga

Attributed to Isleta Tinsmith Tin Frame with Three Devotional Cards ca. 1885 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (image) 11 x 12 1/4 inches Horizontal tin frame with but joinery, tin corners and splayed “fan” lu

Sporting Playing Cards. New York: Union Playing Card Co., ca. 1885. 52+OB (worn and chipped). Sporting back design featuring a hunting dog. Joker design on box. Good condition. Hochman L46.

Aladdin #1001 Playing Cards. Indianapolis & New York: The National Card Co., ca. 1885. 52, no Joker. Green griffon back design. In tarnished silver box with JD motif on lid. Hochman NU6.

National Card Co. Superior Steamboats #9. Indianapolis and New York: National Card Co., ca. 1885. Blue star backs. 52+J (Joker a replacement). Very good. Hochman NU2.

Russell & Morgan “Congress #606 Lacquer Back” Playing Cards. Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1885. 52 + J + OB. The Lacquer Back cards are among the most sought after and rarest of the Congress decks. This ba

[Miscellaneous – Conjuring] Shelf of More than 30 Vintage Books and Booklets on Magic. Including Something New in Magic (1929) by Williams; Book of Card Tricks (ca. 1890) by Kunard; Book of Modern C

Ernest Sewell Cabinet of Card Tricks. British, ca. 1930. Fine vintage magic set with six internal compartments holding gimmicked cards and a Wizard Stripper Deck manufactured from a pack of Delarue&#8

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene (trans. Professor Hoffmann). The Card Sharper Detected and Exposed. London: George Routledge, 1882. Publishers pictorial blue cloth stamped in red, black and gilt. Floral en

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene (trans. Professor Hoffmann). The Card Sharper Detected and Exposed. London: George Routledge, 1882. Publisher’s pictorial cloth stamped in red, black and gold. Floral ends

P. Lorillard 5 Cent Ante Insert Playing Cards. New York: Donaldson Litho., ca. 1885. Complete deck of 52 chromolithographed playing cards, which were issued individually as inserts in packages of toba

[SPORTS]. Allen & Ginter’s “World’s Champions” tobacco card album. Richmond: Allen & Ginter, n.d. [ca. 1885]. 8vo (203 x 153 mm). Numerous chromolithographs highlighting 50 ent

Group of Nineteenth Century Three-Card Monte Wood Engraved Prints. Including an 1893 centerfold (14 x 9 ½“) from The Graphic (London) bearing the image of “a professor of the three card trick at

1919 Second Edition, revised and corrected Latest Magic: being original conjuring tricks invented and arranged by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis, MA.) Red cloth hard cover with pictorial gilt and bl

Lot of 23 Vintage Books and Pamphlets on Gambling Tricks. Including How It’s Done: Cards and Coins (ca. 1930s) by A. E. Wilson, ten Little Blue Books (ed. E. Haldeman-Julius), The Open Book (1945) b

Heather, H.E. Cards and Card Tricks. London: The Bazaar Office, ca. 1876. Gilt-stamped pictorial dark red cloth. Engraved frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo. Spine significantly faded with a few holes in