[Rarebooks] FS: 1870s American Magic Show Handbill

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

1870s American Magic Show Handbill for Prof. De La Mano.

An interesting handbill for Prof. de la Mano, aka Zell Dreitzehn, a 
wealthy Austrian illusionist and magician who gained fame in America 
before most mysteriously disappearing. Dreitzehn, who was born around 
1830, came from a circus family and began practicing magic as a youth, 
touring in Europe and then in America in the 1870s to great acclaim. In 
the autumn of 1882, during his third national tour, he took a day off to 
investigate psychic phenomenon at a Westerlo, New York farm. While 
locked in a room there during a thunderstorm he vanished, and was never 
seen or heard from again.

This handbill plugs his appearance in glowing detail, and warns 
audiences that “a large number of inferior exhibitions…are traveling 
through the country” (this, however, is certainly not one of them). The 
back side of this handbill features a rather amazing woodcut scene of 
magicians and other, um, “beings”, at a variety of magical tasks, with 
space in the middle for the details of the specific show being promoted 
(here blank).

Handbill. 6”x9.5”. Minor wear, some wrinkling, light soil. [42883]  $150

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