Forum Auctions: The Ricky Jay Collection, 22725, London

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 27, 2025 - February 27, 2025
Page Size: 211 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Picot (Victor Marie)

LGBTQ+ pioneer.- Genderfluid spy fencing with the first classical composer of African descent.- The Assault or Fencing-Match Which Took Place Between Mademoiselle La chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont and Monsieur de Saint George

1787 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,142.00
127 Brown (Thomas)

London.- Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of London...

1700 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,386.00
128

Lottery.- Popular State Lottery...Begins Drawing 21st January, 1817...Chance of gaining Twenty Thousand Guineas!...Tickets and Shares are selling by Bish, Contractor...

1817 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 56.70
129

Masonic.- A Little Turkish Hussar, Fifty years old, Three Feet and two Inches High...

[c.1770-80s] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 163.80
130 Holme (R.)

Mathematical genius.- Jedidiah Buxton / AEtat. 60, Numerous memini / Virgil

[1764] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 529.20
131

Mechanical theatre & automata.- Wax works

19th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 604.80
132

Mechanics.- Mr. Bologna, Jun. Respectfully informs his Friends and the Public that he has opened his Evening Mechanical Museum...The Panharmonicon Clock...The Swan of Oblectation...A Grand Display of Experiments in Hydraulics...

1813 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 327.60
133 Cruikshank (Isaac Robert) and others

Mermaids.- The Mermaid, now Exhibiting at the Turf Coffee House, St Jame's Street...

1822 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 504.00
134

Mind reading.- Mr. Henzell's Long Room, Newcastle...Sieur Rea & Son will Discover the Real Thoughts of any Person in the Company...communicate the Thoughts of any one Person to another...Magical Deceptions...A Hornpipe and a Song...

Gateshead, 11th May 1807 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,197.00
135

Misers.- Fairburn's Edition of the Strange and Unaccountable Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq....

[?c.1821] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 226.80
136

Mont Blanc.- Egyptian Hall, Picadilly. Programme of Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc...

1858 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 882.00
137 Smith (Albert Richard, author, public lecturer, and mountaineer, 1816-60)

Mont Blanc.- Faux passport issued by Smith giving permission to Mr Robert Haviland to gain admission to the Egyptian Hall and Mont Blanc Room

1854 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 478.80
138

Mouth and Foot Painting Artist.- Now Exhibiting One of the Most Wonderful Productions of Nature Ever Exhibited, Miss Beffin...Paints Miniatures, and many more wonderful Things, all of which she performs principally with her Mouth...

[?1809] GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,772.00
139

Mouth and Foot Painting Artist.- Eighth Wonder...the Wonderful Miss Beffin Intends doing herself the honor of being exhibited in Strood Fair...

Rochester, [c.1811] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,536.00
140

Mouth and Foot Painting Artist.- [A small collection of material relating to Sarah Beffin (sometimes Biffin, Biffen)]...

[?1809] GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,394.00
141 Biffin (Sarah) After. Miss S. Biffin

Mouth and Foot Painting Artist.- Born at East Quantox-head, near Bridgewater, Somersetshire

1821 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 819.00
142

Museum of curiosities.- Rackstrow's Museum...most Curious Objects...Display of the Human Frame in its unfolded State, with the most rare Natural Productions the World can afford...

[c.1790] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 478.80
143 Paganini (Niccolo)

Music.-Signor Paganini...Three Grand Concerts, at the Adelphi Theatre...

1834 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 2,394.00
144

Napoleon playbill.- Storm at Sea.- Buck (Ipswich Arms, printer) Saville House, Leicester Square...Sampson's Grand Mechanical and Picturesque Exhibition of Arts...Napoleon and his staff on horseback...Buonaparte...Crossing the Alps

[early 19th century] GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
145 Haid (Johann Jakob)

Obesity.- Mr Edwd. Bright late of Malden in Essex, after David Ogborne...

1750 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 819.00
146 Lambert (Daniel)

Obesity.- Life (The) of that Wonderful and Extraordinarily Heavy Man, the Late Danl. Lambert...with an Account of Men Noted for their Corpulency...

Stamford 1809 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
147 Williams (Charles) and others

Obesity.- Lambert (Daniel).- Collection of 7 satirical prints featuring Daniel Lambert...

1806 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,268.00
148

Pantomime.- Theatre Retford...the Historical Play of Jane Shore...To conclude with a comic Pantomime, in one Act, called Harlequin Traveller, Or, A Peep into the New World...Grotesque Figures...The Trick Can. Magic Tub and Crocodile...

1810 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 151.20
149

Pedestrianism.- Wilson (George) A Sketch of the Life of George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian...

1815 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 239.40
150

Performing animals.- Dutch School (probably late 18th century)...

[circa 1780-1800] GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 453.60