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Quantity, red, green Meccano, a few gears/pulleys, magic motor in poor box, many items with corrosion, includes a few aeroplane Constructor stays (P)

Boxed sets of Mayfair Edition pewter models 'The Legendary Gun Collection' and 'Magic Swords', a collection of pewter doll's house furniture thimbles in display case and two boxes of various reproduction bronze coins. (5)

A Franke & Heidecke Rollei Magic 2 1/4sq. TLR camera in case.

AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON: LUCY-MARY OR THE COBWEB CLOAK, ill Margaret W Tarrant, 1910, 1st edn, 6 col’d plts, orig pict cl gt + GRACE RHYS: THE MAGIC WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD, ill Margaret W Tarrant, 1931, 1st edn under this ttl, orig pict cl + HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: FAIRY STORIES, ill Margaret W Tarrant, nd 10th edn, orig cl d/w (3)

MARY AND CHARLES LAMB: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, ill Harold Copping, 1901, 2 vols, orig decor buckram gt + CHARLES KINGSLEY: THE HEROES OR GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN, ill Sir William Russell Flint, 1923, orig cl + S H BUTCHER AND ANDREW LANG: THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE, ill Sir William Russell Flint, 1936, small 4to, orig cl d/w + WILLIAM GILBERT: THE MAGIC MIRROR, ill John Menzies, 1907, 1st edn, 20 col’d plts, orig pict cl + DORIS ASHLEY: CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM LONGFELLOW, circa 1915, orig pict cl gt (6)

RUPERT ANNUAL, 1968, price unclipped, “Magic Painting”, pges not col’d in, 4to, orig pict laminated bds 30-40

GEORGE MACDONALD, 2 ttls: THE MAGIC CROOK OR THE STOLEN BABY A FAIRY STORY, ill Arthur Hughes, L 1911, 1st edn, orig cl soiled, TRYSTIE’S QUEST OR KIT KING OF THE PIGWIDGEONS A FAIRY STORY, ill Arthur Hughes, [1912], 1st edn, orig pict cl (2)

KATHLEEN SCARR: THROUGH THE MAGIC MIRROR, ill Molly Brett, 1940, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + LADY FRAZER: THE SINGING WOOD, ill H M Brock, A and C Black, 1931, 1st edn, orig pict cl d/w + KATHLEEN FIDLER: THE WHITE-STARRED HARE AND OTHER STORIES, ill A H Watson, 1951, 1st edn, orig cl d/w + J WAUGH BODEN: THE FAIRY ISLANDS, ill Doris Williamson, 1922, 1st edn, orig decor cl worn + GRIMM’S HOUSEHOLD TALES, ill R Anning Bell, n d, orig pict cl + FAIRY TALES FROM HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, ill Thomas, Charles and William Robinson, n d, orig pict cl + GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES, ill C Folkard, A and C Black, 1949, reprint, orig cl d/w + MARIE BAYNE: LITTLE LADY GRIMGRUFF AND OTHER FAIRY STORIES, ill Helen Willett, circa 1914, orig cl pict paper label (8)

CHRISTOPHER LOGUE: RATS MAGIC, ill Wayne Anderson, 1976, 1st edn, 4to, orig pict laminated bds + G A ROSSINI: WILLIAM TELL, ED TAMAO FUJITA, TRANS ANN BRANNEN, ill Hiroshi Mizusawa, 1976, 1st edn, obl, 4to, orig cl bkd laminated bds d/w + SAINT-SAENS: CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS, ED KEIZUKE TSUTSUI, TRANS ANN KING HERRING, ill Kozo Kakimoto, 1973, 1st edn, obl, 4to, orig cl bkd laminated bds d/w + E HUMPERDINCK: HANSEL AND GRETEL, ED ERIKO KISHIDA, TRANS ANN BRANNEN, ill Yoshitaro Isaka, 1976, 1st edn, obl, 4to, orig cl bkd pict bds d/w + REX AND LAURENCE WHISTLER: AHA, 1978, orig cl d/w (5)

S MICHAEL SCHNESSEL: JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH, 1977, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + SUSAN E MEYER: A TREASURY OF THE GREAT CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, NY, 1983, 4to, orig cl d/w + BRIDGID PEPPIN: FANTASY BOOK ILLUSTRATION 1860-1920, 1975, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + RICHARD DALBY: GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION, 1991, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + B PEPPIN AND L MICKLEWHITE: DICTIONERY OF BOOK ILLUSTRATORS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1983, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl d/w + M P HEARN, T CLARK AND H N B CLARK: MYTHS MAGIC AND MYSTERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION, 1996, 1st edn, 4to, orig pict wraps (6)

An Underwood & Underwood Patent stereoscope, a collection of similar stereo cards including Russo Japanese War, a tinplate magic lantern and a mahogany box of glass slides and plates, a/f, ( a lot).

A late 19th/early 20th century, brass and tinplate magic lantern, length 39cm, in it's tin carrying box.

Two magic lanterns and the lenses for the same, both in original cases

A large quantity of magic lantern accessories and black and white coloured slides for the same

LAURA KNIGHT The Magic of a Line. Her autobiography. First edition. Together with the Roger Hilton publication Night Letters.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius De occulta philosophia libri tres. [Cologne: Johannes Soter?] (July 1533), first edition, folio, woodcut portrait of Agrippa on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, with the final blank leaf, early inscription on title; Plutarch Opera moralia. Basle: M. Isingrinius, 1541, folio, woodcut initials, owners name deleted from title creating small hole, repaired on verso not affecting text, 2 works in one volume, eigheenth century vellum stamped 1723 on upper board, spine worn, new endpapers Footnote: First edition of this celebrated work. Agrippa von Nettesheim's writings brought him into conflict with the Inquisition and he was charged with heresy. De occulta philosophia is a defence of magic, by means of which men may come to a knowledge of nature and of God, and contains Agrippa's idea of the universe with its three worlds or spheres. Caillet 93; Adams A386, suggesting Basle imprint.

Alchemy Artephius, his secret book, manuscript, 47pp., inscribed To Sorar S.M.J. from Fra. L.F.P., Xmas 1947; Aureus of Hermes Trismegistus, manuscript by Leonard F. Pembroke, stapled, [no date]; Dee, J. La monade hieroglyphique, 1925, typescript, 49pp.; The true & perfect preparation of the philosophical stone, typescript of translation, [c.1940]; An hundred aphorisms containing ye whole body of natural magic, manuscript by L.F. Pembroke, 1947; Parney, M. An elucidation of Ripley's compound of alchemy, typescript, 22pp., [c.1947]; Arcanum hermeticae philosophicae opus, manuscript copy, c.50pp., 1941, all half calf; and c.55 photocopied works and critical essays, some of articles published by Ambix, relating to alchemy, magic, John Dee, bound in plywood boards or cloth (quantity)

German alchemical manuscripts Das Buch von denen Ringern der Plane, 94 pp., one pen and ink sketch; bound with Carrichter, Bartholomaeus Magische Cur. und heilung Magischer Franck-heiten, 42 pp.; Claviculae salomonis et philosophia pneumatica. Das ist Vollkommenes Geheimnus der Magischen Circulen Characteren Pentaculen, 22pp., title supplied in ?modern facsimile, bound with Modellus Salomonis de Anvelorum qualitate in Mundo visibili manifestata et mundo invisibili Renatis, 54pp., continued as Abano, Petrus de Heptameron, 18pp., and another 44pp. of alchemical notes, bound in two volumes, small 4to, eighteenth century vellum, later ties (2) Note: The illustration is of the three vases of Artephius, a divinatory method related to the magic mirror, hydromancy and oinomancy. The procedure is expounded in two unpublished manuscripts in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal (no. 3009), the second part of which contains L'art magique d'Artephius et de Mihinius. (Grillot de Givry, pp.307-8. Provenance: Hans von Cladh (?), ex-libris, note on titles

Givry, G.de Witchcraft, magic & alchemy, 1931, 4to, green half morocco; Ibid. La musée des sorcières, Paris, 1929, 4to, half calf; The history of the inquisitions, 1810, 4to, engraved plates, half calf gilt, some spotting; Reflections on polygamy... by Phileleutherus Dubliniensis, 1737, disbound, somewhat soiled; Jacobus X Untrodden fields of anthropology, Paris, [undated]-1898, 2 volumes, 8vo, cloth, one title cut down; Summers, Montagu The geography of witchcraft, 1927; The history of witchcraft and demonology, 1926; d'Arch Smith, T. A bibliography of the works of Montague Summers, 1964, presentation copy signed, dust-jacket; and a quantity of nineteenth and twentieth-century books on witchcraft, Paracelsus, Plotinus, and hermetic philosophy (quantity)

Magic, Mysticism and the Occult - Howey, M. Oldfield The cat in the mysteries of religion and magic. London, [no date], 8vo, illustrated, original cloth gilt; Henderson, G.D. Mystics of the North East. Aberdeen: Spalding Club, 1834, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a fine copy; Waite, A.E. The history of magic. London, 1913, 8vo, illustrated, contemporary vellum gilt and another copy in cloth; Ibid. The book of ceremonial magic. London, 1911, 8vo, original cloth gilt, some rubbing; Hall, Manly Man, the grand symbol of the mysteries. London, 1932, 8vo, one of 1000 copies, original cloth gilt, some fading; Underhill, E. Mysticism. London, 1911, second edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, faded and worn; Papus The tarot of the Bohemians. London, 1910, 8vo, illustrated, original decorative cloth gilt; [Fortune-Telling] The complete book of fortune. London, [no date], 8vo, original decorative green & black cloth; and a quantity of other material on magic, tarot and the occult (quantity)

Scot, Reginald [The discoverie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of conjurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers... are deciphered...] London: William Brome, [1584], First edition, 8vo, black letter together with some roman and italic, woodcut head and tailpieces, numerous ornamental initials, lacking title, Sii - Svii [pp.243-54], Ti-Tviii [pp.257-72], Uiii [pp.277-78], Uvi [pp.283-84], Ppi [pp.513-14], 2 leaves of instruments, 4 pages of engravings between pp.352-53, woodcut removed from pp.415 [Conjurers breastplate], later calf, worn, upper board lacking top right corner, heavy staining to Aii, repairs throughout, some leaves loose. Sold not subject to return. Note: Mellon, Alchemy, 47; STC 21864; Caillet 10061 In this early, and important, work on witchcraft Scot notes that there is no religious or rational basis for the belief in witchcraft and magic. He exposes conjuring tricks and illusions and argues that spiritualistic manifestations were wilful impostures or illustions due to mental disturbance in the observers. King James VI attempted to confute Scot in his Daemonologie (1597) and when he came to the throne of England ordered Scot's work to be burned.

Supernatural - Begbie, Major Supernatural illusions. London, 1851, 8vo, 2 volumes, modern half calf gilt; Owen, Robert Dale Footfalls on the boundary of another world. London, 1860, 8vo, modern half calf gilt; Insulanus, T. Treatises on the second sight. Glasgow, 1819, 8vo, modern quarter cloth gilt, last leaf stained; Mayo, Herbert On the truths contained in popular superstitions with an account of mesmerism. Edinburgh, 1851, second edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, some spotting; Lang, A Cock Lane and common-sense, 1894, number 41 of 60 large paper copies, original boards; Lee, F.G. The other world or glimpses of the supernatural, 1875, 2 volumes; Lévy, E. Transcendental magic, 1896, 2 copies, bindings lightly marked; Ibid. The key to the mysteries, 1959; Snow, H. Spirit intercourse, Boston, 1853; Mayo, H. On the truths contained in popular superstitions, 1851; Newnham, W. Essay on superstition, 1830, later cloth; De Morgan, A. A budget of paradoxes, 1872; Theobald, M. Spirit workers in the home circle, 1887, rebacked; King, J.H. The supernatural, 1892, 2 volumes, bindings spotted, one rubbed; Owen, R.A. Footfalls on the boundary of another world, 1860; Knowlson, T.S. The origins of popular superstitions and customs, 1930; Aveling, F. Directing mental energy, 1927, calf; [Thomson, A.D.] On mankind their origin and destiny, 1872; ; Chislett, T.H. Spirits in the house, 1949; Flammarion, C. The unknown, 1900; Budge, E.A.W. The Rosetta stone in the British museum, 1929; Myer, I. Oldest books in the world, New York, 1900; Boismont, A.B. de On hallucinations, 1859, library stamp on title; Brewster, D. Letters on natural magic, 1868; [Davenport, R.A.] Sketches of imposture, deception and credulity, 1837, engraved frontispiece; Phene, J.S. On prehistoric traditions and customs in connection with sun and serpent worship, 1875, bound with others; Carnahan, J.R. Pythian knighthood, Cincinnati, 1888, calf-backed boards; Podmore, F. Studies in psychical research, 1897; Hill, J.A. Spiritualism, 1918; Carrington, H. The physical phenomena of spiritualism, [n.d.]; Street, J.C. The hidden way across the threshold, 1887; Cooper, W.E. Spiritual science, 1911; all original cloth except where noted, a few slightly rubbed or marked; and others on magic, psychic phenomena, ghosts, &c. (quantity)

Thorndike, Lynn A history of magic and experimental science. London, 1923-1958, 8vo, 8 volumes, volumes III-IV, VII-VIII with titles possibly supplied in facsimile, vol. 2 lacks title, later half morocco gilt, red and black labels, interiors clean (8)

Voodoo & Witchcraft in Africa, India, China - Tremearne, Major A. The ban of the Bori, demons and demon-dancing in west and north Africa. London, [1914], 8vo, illustated, original decorative cloth, some fading, lacking front endpaper; Owen, Mary Old rabbit the voodoo and other sorcerers. London, 1893, 8vo, illustrated, original decorative cloth , some rubbing; Deane, Rev. John The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world. London, 1833, second edition, 8vo, presented by the author to P.D. Foulkner, 4 leaves of publishers adverts at front, original boards, worn, lacking top of backstrip, uncut; Bell, H.J. Obeah witchcraft in the West Indies. London, 1893, second edition, 8vo, original cloth, rubbed; Loederer, Richard Voodoo fire in Haiti. London, 1937, second edition, 8vo, original cloth; Lenormant, Francois Chaldean magic. London, [no date], original decorative cloth; Skeat, Walter W. Malay magic. London, 1965, 8vo, original cloth; Jacolliot, Louis Occult science in India and among the ancients. London, 1919, 8vo, original cloth; and 19 others (27)

Witchcraft and Magic - Brewster, Sir David Letters on natural magic. London, 1834, small 8vo, later half green calf gilt, rubbed; Ibid Letters on natural magic. London, 1856, 7th edition, 8vo, contemporary green calf gilt, rubbed, ink inscripition on pp. 1; Daraul, Arkon Witches and sorcerers. London, 1962, 8vo, original cloth, lacking dustwrapper; Macculloch, Sir Edgar Guernsey folk lore. London, 1903, 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth gilt, corners repaired, rubbed, foxing; Seymour, St John Irish witchcraft and demonology. Dublin, 1913, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some foxing, contemporary ink inscription to endpaper; Magical manuscript Fasimile of 16th Century manuscript of the Key of Solomon [secretary's hand], possibly copied from a manuscript belonging to Thomas... Clarke of Divinite, two copies, uniform modern cloth, slipcase; Conway, M.D. Demonology and devil-lore, 1879, 2 volumes, library stamp removed from titles; Osterreich, T.K. Possession demoniacal & other, 1930; Davies, T.W. Magic, divination and demonology, [c.1898], presentation copy from the author; Sorlin, P. Witchcraft & magic trials in Southern Sweden (1635-1754), 1998; Behringer, W. Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria, 1997; Normand, L. & G. Roberts. Witchcraft in early modern Scotland, 2000; and a quantity of other modern material on witchcraft and magic (qty)

Witchcraft, Magic, Demons--Levack, B.P. Renaissance magic, 1992; Buchanan, R. The devil's case, [n.d.], head of spine worn; Ryan, W.F. The bathhouse at midnight, 1999; Cervantes, F. The devil in the new world, 1994; Finlay, A. Demons, 1999; Hyatt, H.M. Hoodoo, conjuration, witchcraft, rootwork. Washington, 1970, 3 volumes, 4to, modern quarter morocco; Hopkins, Albert Magic. London, 1897, 8vo, modern half calf gilt, slipcase; Plancy, J. Collin Dictionnaire infernal... Paris, 1863, sixth edition, 8vo, quarter green calf gilt, rubbed; Boguet, Henry An examen of witches drawn from various trials. London, 1929, 8vo, number 725 of 1275 copies, original cloth boards; Summers, Rev M. Malleus maleficarum. London, 1928, 4to, number 1010 of 1275 copies, original cloth boards, some browning and another copy in poor condition; Ibid Compendium maleficarum. London, 1929, 8vo, number 893 of 1275 copies, original cloth, some fading and another two copies, one number 274 of 1275 copies and a 1970 reprint; Remy, Nicolas Demonolatry. London, 1930, 8vo, number 503 of 1275 copies, original cloth, dustwrapper [foxed] and another two copies, one of 1275 and a 1970 reprint; with a quanity of other modern material on witchcraft, magic, demons, etc (qty)

Witchcraft--[Millar, J.] A history of the witches of Renfrewshire, Paisley, 1877; Trials A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler prosecuted for sorcery in 1324. London, 1843, 8vo, later quarter calf gilt, bookplate pasted to verso of title; Sinclair, G. Satan's invisible world discovered, 1871; Sharpe, C.K. A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland, 1884, spine faded; Campbell, J.G. Witchcraft & second sight in the highlands and islands of Scotland, 1902; 2Gifford, G. A dialogue concerning witches and witchcraftes, 1931; Ankarloo, B., editor. Witchcraft and magic in Europe, 1999-2001, volumes 2-3 and 5-6; Black, G.F. A calendar of cases of witchcraft in Scotland 1510-1727, New York, 1971, 2 copies; Sharpe, J. Instruments of darkness, 1996; Ewen, C.L Witchcraft and demonianism, 1970; Witch hunting and witch trials, 1929, 2 copies; Forbes, E. A mirror for witches, 1928; Bostridge, I. Witchcraft and its transformations 1650-1750, 1997; Wickmar, J.W. Witchcraft and the black art, [n.d.], 2 copies; Dickie, M.W. Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman world, 2001; Lea, H.C. Materials toward a history of witchcraft, New York, 1957, 3 volumes; all original cloth; and a quantity of books on witchcraft (quantity)

Portmeirion Magic City patterned six place coffee service, comprising a coffee pot, cream jug, sugar bowl, six cans and saucers, printed factory marks to the bases of each

Two boxed Corgi Magic Roundabout die-cast cars, a boxed Magic Roundabout Playground (853) and a boxed Corgi Comics die-cast Popeye car

A Victorian yellow metal 'magic lantern' fob seal with sardonyx set stone and stanhope of a young girl.

A Pathescope reel of film "Stage Struck Donald", some magic lantern slides and a very large quantity of photographs and photograph albums mainly family holidays, weddings and portraits c.1920's - 1940's (a lot)

A German made nursery magic lantern and slides in original box, the lantern of simple form with candles and lenses, the colour printed slides of cities, animals and stories ++general wear

An Auchterlonie hickory shafted wooden head putter with another, Tom Watts brass soled wooden head putter; a Forgan, St Andrwews 'Black Magic' putter and a James Braid, 'The Orion' hickory shaped putter (4)

A Dagnerrotype of a lady and a young boy, a similar case, a leather photograph case, a three inch glass magic lantern slide depicting a sailor walking the plank and a walnut picture frame.

A quantity of early 20th Century three inch, glass magic lantern slides, including; aeroplanes, boats, 1930's Mediterranean scenes, Norwegian fjords, Eygpt and the Nile, South Africa, Children of Eygpt and sundry, approximately five hundred, contained in mahogany carrying cases.

A Brass/black metal Magic Lantern, mounted on wooden rectangular base plus three boxes of glass slides, including black and white Norwich Cathedral, coloured military slides and coloured Dick Whittington

A collection of glass lantern slides including animals and Peter Pan, together with magic picture discs of Continental views, and a tinted photographic miniature portrait of a lady, (a lot).

Toys: Glamtoy Products G.T.P. 584 Garage with three cars, NGT clockwork Camera Bear 184mm, Pifco 1667 Magic Nursery Lamp, Green Monk Sooty Xylophone and Elm Big Ears Cart in original boxes, Triang steel 'Shell' Tanker 360mm, Japanese clockwork bear 180mm (one shoe detached) and Marx Sam The Gardener 200mm, F-VG, some slight damage, boxes P-F (8)

Magic Game: Kay - 'The David Berglas Conjuring Tricks' in original box, E, box VG

Characters: selection of character toys and merchandising including thunderbirds, Stingray, Flintstones, Joe 90, Spiderman, Superman, Beetlejuice, Roger Rabbit, Jungle Book, James Bond, Dick Tracy, Magic Roundabout, majority with original packaging

* Ethiopian magic scroll (or kitab), late 19th century, rolled manuscript roll on three pieces of joined vellum with three illuminations, the whole measuring approx. 104 x 1800 mm. (1)

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King, 1st ed., pub. George Allen & Unwin, 1954/5, Richard Adams's copy, with his ms. ownership signature and bookplate to each vol., and a few pencilled annotations in his hand, folding map to each, a.e.g., recent scarlet crushed morocco for Asprey, with orig. cloth covers bound in at rear of each vol., spines with gilt dot dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct on a seme dot ground in second and third compartments, remainder with art nouveau flower tool surrounded by seme dots within double fillet frame, covers with gilt single fillet border, inner dot-filled double fillet border, with stylised flowers at corners, central single fillet panel filled with dots and roundels, with scabious flower at centre of each side, single fillet to board edges, gilt dec. turn-ins, 8vo. With six pages of important manuscript notes by Richard Adams, in which he pours out his thoughts about Tolkien's work and compares it to his own, in a free-flowing hand, with numerous additions and underlinings. He calls Gollum a marvellous conception... the awful, unacceptable outsider, who nevertheless is of huge value, and compares him to others who he sees as similar figures, such as Van Gogh, Shelley, Nelson, Emmeline Pankhurst and John Wesley. He goes on to say that Tolkien did not influence his own work, but changes his mind as he writes: I dont care for Magic and dont resort to it at all... I cant think of any respect in which Tolkien has influenced me. Afterthought. What about The Girl in a Swing?Ó Supernatural. M.R. James?. Adams expresses his disappointment that there are only two female characters in Lord of the RingsÓ - Galadriel and Eowen - neither of whom, he says, exactly represent real Womanhood: (Im sure that Women's Lib. dont care for the overwhelmingly masculine tone of the conflict and the characterisation.) Ask Germaine Greer?Ó (And Watership DownÓ has been criticised for this. But the whole W.D. story hinges on the necessity of the female to a true society.) Adams concludes that his feelings about Lord of the RingsÓ echo Dr. Johnson's about Paradise LostÓ: No man ever wished it longerÓ. (3)

Del Rio (Martin Antoine). Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex in tres tomos partiti... Nunc secundis curis auctior longe, additionibus multis passim insertis: correctior quo[que] mendis sublatis, 2nd ed., Mainz: Johann Albin, 1603, three parts in one with eng. vign. border to general title, (spotted and somewhat soiled with old ownership name of Bloutn at upper margin), some spotting or light browning throughout, lacks folding table, ex libris Prinknash Abbey, contemp. calf with old reback, covers and title det., some wear, folio. This famous book, first published at Louvain in 1599, deals with magic in general, diabolical magic, maleficia, prophecy and divination, rules for judges, function of the confessor. (1)

SYLVIA VON HARTMANN R.S.W. (20TH CENTURY) THE MAGIC CUP Wax painting 30cm x 40cm (11.5in x 15.75in) Exhibited: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1982, no. 105

Records - Grapefruit, 'Around' (Stateside, SSL5008); Chicken Shack, 'O.K. Ken?' (Blue Horizon, 7-63209); Chicken Shack, 'Forty Blue Fingers...' (Blue Horizon, 7-63203); The Mothers of Invention, 'Absolutely Free', mono (Verve, VLP9174); Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, 'Safe as Milk' (Pye, NPL28110); and assorted other albums and singles, (two cases and a box).

Part Volume - "Optics" and a collection of other engraved pages, "Magic", "Mill Work", Military Manoeuvres", "Masonry", Astronomy", "Anatomy", etc.

A Kosta Boda Dark Magic vase By Vicke Lindstrand. Thick cased asymmetric ovoid form, marked to base. Refer to 20th Century Glass (DK)by Judith Miller p.42, 168mm high

ERICH KASTNER: EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES, 1931, 1st edn, orig cl worn + CYRIL W BEAUMONT: SEA MAGIC, ill Wyndham Payne, 1928, 1st edn, orig cl bkd, pict bds + five others (7).

Pop and Rock ephemera, programmes etc. including early Rolling Stones souvenir brochure published by J K Smith, another - The Sensational Rolling Stones (Robert Stigwood Associates Ltd.), The Beatles Get Back 1969, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 1969;The Beatles Christmas Show Souvenir Programme 1963-64; Elton John World Tour 1985-1986 and The World Tour 1989-1990, Elton John Sotheby's London sale 4 catalogue boxed set (unopened in original plastic seal); Queen A Kind of Magic Tour 1986 brochure, Michael Jackson World Tour 1988 brochure; few older song sheets, etc (a box, condition varies)

Magic and Conjuring, 12 volumes: HOFFMANN, Professor. Tricks with Cards, 1889; Modern Magic, second edition (?); The Secrets of Stage Conjuring, 1881, all in good pictorial cloth gilt; The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic, 1878, split to front endpaper along hinge, a.e.g. in somewhat worn cloth; The lllustrated Book of Patience Games, 4th edition 1902, cloth with rubbed spine; More Magic, 1890, ex Magic Circle Library with stamps and worn half binding; Later Magic, 1925, worn cloth, and 5 others later (12)

Late 19th Century tin plate and brass magic lantern with two lenses and tin carrying case

E.P German tinplate magic lantern with a collection of slides within the original box, 11" wide

A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CASED BRASS MOUNTED MAGIC LANTERN adapted for electricity, together with a box containing approx. 100 entomological slides and a dozen of Indian and Arabic interest. (2)

Harold Knight, R.A., 1874-1961 harvesting the sea signed and dated 1900 oil on canvas 135x175cm.; 53x69in. How little do we realise the cost of herring on our breakfast plate! For such realisation it is necessary to experience the relentless battering of an equinoctial gale. In late September and early October, the herring shoal, in its tour around England, passes the Yorkshire coast. It is then that a fleet of Herring Cobbles, caught unaware in the North Sea, has short shrift to get back to shore through the white water breaking on the reefs, whose shallows run further than the horizon line. A (wildified) place is Steers as the locals called Staithes. (Laura Knight, The Magic of Line, 1965, p. 107) In 1895 Laura Johnson and her future husband Harold Knight visited the rugged Yorkshire coastal town of Staithes and were truly captivated by the landscape and its people. After their return to London Laura and Harold discussed the prospect of moving permanently to Staithes and after marrying in 1903 they resided there for fourteen years. The previously unremarkable town of Staithes had been popular with artists since the 1880s. It had attracted painters from the Midlands and the North who wanted to paint similar subjects to those favoured by the plein air painters in Newlyn. Laura summed up the freedom offered by this little town, As long as I can remember I wanted to run wild in a broader life, away from factories, miles from houses in rows, dressed-up shops and the gentility of town where no one knows what their neighbour enjoys or endures. Here in Staithes we share each others joys and sorrows. (Caroline Fox, Dame Laura Knight, 1988, p. 12) Following the precedent of the Barbizon and Hague School of painters, artists in Staithes sought to paint the everyday life of the working class residents. Harold and Laura both developed a great admiration and fascination with the hardiness of the fisher-folk of whom Laura wrote the majority of its people, both man and woman, dedicated to toil of the hardest as they were, and knowing tragedy at first hand. (ibid Knight, p. 107). They believed the fishermen to be the descendants of a Viking race whose ship foundered on the shores and never left, a belief augmented by the sight of one particular example; a majestic figure Ð six foot tall or more, his shoulders and chest enormous, his features aquiline, his pointed beard red; his eyes are the sort of blue that has a special look Ð a sea-eye look one used for big distances Ð his skin is bronzed by the sun and toughened by wind and salt water. (ibid Knight, p. 109) These mortal Poseidons were the models for the small number of dramatic pictures painted by Harold to convey the brutality of the sea and the strenuous courage of the men who worked upon the herring cobbles. Another of these men was Argy (Isaac) Verrill who the Knights befriended and were permitted to accompany to sea in his old cobble. They would often sit around his fireside eating Herring toasted by his daughter Anna-Margaret and listen to his stories of near-death and to his mighty singing voice. It is likely that Argy posed for the present picture and one or more of the other figures, is probably another fisherman friend Mattie Theaker or John Jones. The present view captures the toughness of the Staithes fishermen and the strenuous work as they toil against the ocean. They are dressed in the clothes that Laura described thus; Bleached by weather and sea-water are the garments worn by both women and men. As for the mens trousers Ð never was such a variety of colour found as in the numberless patches. (ibid Knight, p. 109). The pictures painted by Harold Knight in Staithes are rare although several were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1900 and 1904, including The Last Coble of 1900, Evening, Staithes of 1901 and Unloading Herrings, Scarborough of 1902. A small picture of a similar subject entitled Staithes Pier was sold in these rooms, 9 November 1988, lot 4. By 1905 K

A Beswick Hackney horse 'CH Black Magic of Nork', designed by Mr.Orwell, model number 1361

A boxed 'Gay Deceiver' Magic Set, together with three various composition and celluloid dolls.

A box containing various magic lantern slides.

FOUR VARIOUS DESIGNS for the story of the Highwayman from the Magic Ball circa 1971 and one further, the story of the circus (4), all unframed.

Jefferies (Richard). Bevis, the Story of a Boy, 3 vols., 1st ed., Sampson Low, 1882, half-title to vol.1 (as issued), 32pp. ads. at rear of vol.3, occasional light browning or spotting, hinges to each vol. broken with entire contents loose inside, vol.2 lacking all leaves prior to B1 (p.1), bookplt. to each front pastedown with evidence of removal of earlier label from pastedown of vol.1, orig. brown dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to edges, 8vo, together with Wood Magic, A Fable, 2 vols., 1st ed., Cassell, 1881, half-title to first vol., ads. at rear of second, hinges cracked with upper hinge of first vol. entirely broken, orig. green dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to spines, 8vo (5)

* Cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards. A miscellaneous group of albumen print cards, 19th-century,. including many of actresses, together with two partially filled albums, one of which contains photographic reproductions of the Russian royal family, together with a group of approx. 250 magic lantern slides contained in two wooden slide boxes, and mainly relating to geological subjects including the Severn Bore plus a gelatin silver print portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, approx. 24 x 17 cm, mounted, signed and dated in facsimile on mount beneath, contemp. morocco desk frame with slightly broken stand (a carton)