Magic - The Occult - History of Science - Natural History
Updated October 6, 2026
| Date | October 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers |
| Lots | 288 |
| Estimates | $200 – $15,000 |
What's in this auction
288 lots, mostly comics & books (13), antiques & furniture (4), electronics & gaming (3), fine art & prints (2). 288 lots have photos. Pre-sale estimates $200–$15,000 across 288 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing October 29, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- One of 50 known copies of Erdnase's card cheating manual — est. $10,000–$15,000
- English edition of Nostradamus 1672 — est. $10,000–$15,000
- Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy & Taxation, rare 1st ed. — est. $5,000–$8,000
- Signed by Harry Houdini, inscribed to magic collector Carl Howard Irving — est. $4,000–$6,000
- Dr. Albo's classic of magic with apparatus — est. $2,000–$3,000
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In this auction (288 lots)
Categories: Comics & Books (13) · Antiques & Furniture (4) · Electronics & Gaming (3) · Fine Art & Prints (2) · Firearms & Militaria (1)
- Lot 1 — Dr. Albo's classic of magic with apparatus
- Lot 2 — The Magic of Ascanio in 4 volumes, 2 signed by the translator
- Lot 3 — 2 by Al Baker
- Lot 4 — 60 tricks by Al Baker
- Lot 5 — Barbaud's Prestidigitation et Magie Blanche, 4 vols.
- Lot 6 — Original run of the Notebooks
- Lot 7 — Two works on card magicians from Mike Caveney and the Hermetic Press
- Lot 8 — Five volumes on Card Magic and Sleight of Hand
- Lot 9 — Four works on Card Magic including one signed by Slydini
- Lot 10 — Three bios on Card magicians, with signatures of Dai Vernon and Chuck Romano
- Lot 11 — 20 volumes on card manipulation, 2 signed
- Lot 12 — Cardini by TV magic producer John Fisher
- Lot 13 — A. Dougherty’s “Triplicate No.18” deck 1876
- Lot 14 — Demon No. 1571 playing cards
- Lot 15 — The Dondorf Tarok deck, No. 245 - c.1910
- Lot 16 — 19th century mahogany playing card box
- Lot 17 — 7 antique playing card decks
- Lot 18 — 2 decks of French playing cards, c.1890s
- Lot 19 — Vintage Dutch cruise ship gambling box with counters and cards
- Lot 20 — Signed by Maurice Farnel and inscribed to Edward Levy
- Lot 21 — Stanley Collins shares his tricks
- Lot 22 — Decremps' La Magie Blanche Dévoilée, first edition
- Lot 23 — Supplement to Decremps' La Magie Blanche Dévoilée, first edition
- Lot 24 — Devant's Delightful Delusions 1/1000
- Lot 25 — Dr. Dhotel in translation
- Lot 26 — Inscriptions to Pierre Tessier and Paul Fleming signed by Jules Dhotel
- Lot 27 — Spurious edition
- Lot 28 — From the library of Australian magician Margaret Yates
- Lot 29 — Elliott's Last Legacy, first edition, 1923, edited by Houdini
- Lot 30 — 3 editions of Erdnase's The Expert at the Card Table
- Lot 31 — One of 50 known copies of Erdnase's card cheating manual
- Lot 32 — 3 works on the anonymous author of Expert at the Card Table
- Lot 33 — Illustrated Magic by Ottokar Fischer, 1931
- Lot 34 — 2 First Edition copies of The Card Expert Entertains by Dariel Fitzkee
- Lot 35 — The Fitzkee trilogy
- Lot 36 — The Paul Fleming Book Reviews, 3 vols., 1 of which is inscribed
- Lot 37 — Steve Forte's expose on poker cheats
- Lot 38 — Two works by Wiljalba Frikell
- Lot 39 — Explore the world of Slydini's close-up approach
- Lot 40 — A magic encyclopedia from the popular recreational mathematician and skeptic
- Lot 41 — Magician Will Goldston's copy & later Paul Fleming's, signed by Gaultier
- Lot 42 — Giobbi's Masterclass in Card Magic
- Lot 43 — Helder Guibaraes' Secret Language, 2019
- Lot 44 — Guyot's Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, 1800 (Year 7 of the Revolution)
- Lot 45 — 2 bibliographical works by Trevor H. Hall on conjuring
- Lot 46 — 1st ed. of The Magic of J.N. Hofzinser in dj
- Lot 47 — Signed by Harry Houdini, inscribed to magic collector Carl Howard Irving
- Lot 48 — Houdini's expose on Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, 1929
- Lot 50 — Doug Henning's Houdini in dj
- Lot 171 — Pam-B Rider Waite-Smith Tarot Deck 1930s
- Lot 184 — Lauran Paine's Sex in Witchcraft
- Lot 230 — Barrow's Euclid and Archimedes, 1714
- Lot 286 — With beautiful plates of Welwitschia
- Lot 49 — Magic and Houdini's escapes, by friend and magician Walter B. Gibson
- Lot 51 — Explore the hidden life of Houdini
- Lot 52 — Where Houdini Was Wrong, 1st UK edition
- Lot 53 — Kenneth Silverman's Houdini !!! with additional Notes on Houdini !!!
- Lot 54 — Signed by Houdini's wife inscribed to Cardini
- Lot 55 — Signed by magician Theodore Hardeen, Houdini's brother
- Lot 56 — Jean Hugard's translation of Magic Without Apparatus
- Lot 57 — L. Vosburgh Lyons's copy, inscribed and signed by Jean Hugard
- Lot 58 — 6 works on Magic by or about Jean Hugard
- Lot 59 — Exemplars from The Ricky Jay Collection, limited edition
- Lot 60 — 3 by Ricky Jay, one signed
- Lot 61 — Mental magic with George Kaplan
- Lot 62 — 2 modern card magic masters
- Lot 63 — 2 works by the late great Rene Lavand, one signed
- Lot 64 — 2 volumes by mnemonic Harry Lorayne
- Lot 65 — Nipping the edges of the magical milieu
- Lot 66 — 5 works on magic from Editions Payot
- Lot 67 — Box of books, booklets, pamphlets, and magic ephemera
- Lot 68 — Signed by Tamariz and others - includes Steranko on Cards - 1st edition
- Lot 69 — Magical instruction from the 1940s
- Lot 70 — Five novels about magic and magicians
- Lot 71 — Includes the All-Trick Special
- Lot 72 — Complete run of Gibecière: Journal of Conguring Arts Research
- Lot 73 — A trove of self-published material from the prolific Fulves
- Lot 74 — Fulves' Pallbearers and Epilogue in Deluxe Editions
- Lot 75 — Complete run of the iconic magic magazine
- Lot 76 — A wealth of perspectives from the magic community
- Lot 77 — 8 volumes of magical and mental trickery, 3 signed
- Lot 78 — 6 volumes on theory of magic, 2 signed
- Lot 79 — 5 works on magic
- Lot 80 — 12 volumes of magicians' biographies
- Lot 81 — The techniques and tricks of Marlo
- Lot 82 — Our Magic First Edition by two British masters of magic
- Lot 83 — Magician Nitely: The Magic of Eddie Fechter, 1974
- Lot 84 — Lang's The Modern Conjurer and Drawing-Room Entertainer - 2 variants
- Lot 85 — Scarce Newmann the Great Poster
- Lot 86 — 4 works by Darwin Ortiz, 2 of which are signed and inscribed
- Lot 87 — 3 volumes on cards and close-up magic by Darwin Ortiz, 2 signed
- Lot 88 — Ozanam's Re?cre?ations mathe?matiques et physiques, First Edition with 2 later volumes
- Lot 89 — Ozanam's Re?cre?ations mathe?matiques et physiques, 1725 edition in 4 volumes
- Lot 90 — Pecor's history of magic in Antebellum America
- Lot 91 — First Edition of Ponsin's Nouvelle Magie Blanche De?voile?e
- Lot 92 — Sharpe's 1937 translation of Ponsin's Nouvelle Magie Blanche De?voile?e
- Lot 93 — 1870 Illustrated guide to magic and card tricks
- Lot 94 — J.B. Findlay and Thomas A. Sawyer's study of Professor Hoffmann
- Lot 95 — 5 works on Magic by Professor Hoffmann
- Lot 96 — The latest from Professor Hoffmann
- Lot 97 — Professor Hoffman teaches Modern Magic techniques
- Lot 98 — First Edition of Professor Hoffmann's treatise on the art of conjuring
- Lot 99 — Signed and inscribed by Jason Randal
- Lot 100 — La Magie du Sorcier, Sardina's tribute to Rezvani
- Lot 101 — On the tricks of Medjid Khan Rezvani
- Lot 102 — Robert-Houdin on the Secrets of Prestidigitation and Magic, 1868
- Lot 103 — Robert-Houdin on the Secrets of Prestidigitation and Magic, 1878
- Lot 104 — First Edition of Robert-Houdin's Les Tricheries des Grecs Devoilees, 1861
- Lot 105 — First English edition of Robert-Houdin's memoirs
- Lot 106 — 3 Professor Hoffmann translations of works by Robert-Houdin
- Lot 107 — Two works by Robert-Houdin
- Lot 108 — Fechner's life of Robert-Houdin
- Lot 109 — No. XXIV Recollections of Robert Houdin by William Manning, 1898
- Lot 110 — Robert-Houdin's expose of the "Greeks" a.k.a. card cheats
- Lot 111 — Robert-Houdin, Card-Sharping Exposed, early edition
- Lot 112 — Confidences de Robert-Houdin, 1861
- Lot 113 — Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin's autobiography translated by MacKenzie
- Lot 114 — Latter Day & New Era Card Tricks by Roterberg with bookplate of Conjurer Dick
- Lot 115 — First Edition of August Roterberg's New Era Card Tricks
- Lot 116 — Sachs, Sleight of Hand, 2nd edition
- Lot 117 — Edwin Sachs' articles on Sleight of Hand, 1881
- Lot 118 — Three by Scarne, Scarne on Cards signed with inscription
- Lot 119 — Sharpe, Art and Magic, 2003
- Lot 120 — Sharpe, Neo-Magic 2nd edition in dj
- Lot 121 — The Complete James File with supplemental index volume
- Lot 122 — James Bond with a deck of cards for a pistol
- Lot 123 — Inscribed by Tamariz's longtime translator
- Lot 124 — From a pioneer in close-up magic - one signed
- Lot 125 — Raymond Toole Stott's complete bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876
- Lot 126 — The Professor Salutes the Greats
- Lot 127 — Dai Vernon - inscribed
- Lot 128 — The Professor reveals his secrets
- Lot 129 — 4 works on Card Magic all signed by Dai Vernon
- Lot 130 — The Complete Dai Vernon Chronicles by Stephen Minch
- Lot 131 — 2 editions of Revelations by Dai Vernon
- Lot 132 — The Vernon Touch: Writings of Dai Vernon in Genii 1968-1990
- Lot 133 — Conjuring Arts Research Center edition of Volkmann's A History of the Art of Conjuring
- Lot 134 — Ferguson on the alchemical works in the James Young collection
- Lot 135 — Endless Amusement w/ the art of making fireworks, 1st ed.
- Lot 136 — 3 Astrological works by Dane Rudhyar, two inscribed and signed
- Lot 137 — Fascimile of Francis Barrett's The Magus, 1801
- Lot 138 — Jacob Boehme's Aurora, Three Principles and more, 1764
- Lot 139 — Avalon Brantley's Descended Suns Resuscitate, lettered ed.
- Lot 140 — Bruno's Heroic Enthusiasts, 1st in English, 1889
- Lot 141 — The Complete first Volume of Crowley's occult periodical The Equinox
- Lot 142 — 6 works on metaphysics and spirituality by René Daumal
- Lot 143 — J.W. Dunne on quantum mechanics and precognitive dreams
- Lot 144 — Metaphysics and fiction from religious historian Mircea Eliade
- Lot 145 — Marsilio Ficino on Plato's Symposium
- Lot 146 — 5 works on or about Fourth Way teacher Maurice Nicoll
- … and 138 more lots
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