Salon de Magie: The Klosterman Collection Part I

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Confidences et Révelations. Paris: A. Delahays, 1868. Publisher’s pictorial wraps bound in full crimson calf with banded spine, front panel and spine stamped in gilt, with marbled endpapers, housed in full maroon leather slipcase decorated in gilt with raised bands and panels. Albumen portrait frontispiece of the author, illustrated with engravings of many of Robert-Houdin’s most famous feats. 8vo. Gatherings unopened. Scattered foxing, wraps chipped and soiled, but reinforced archivally. Inscribed and signed on the flyleaf: “A Monsieur Maskelyene / souvenir [?] de reconnaisance / Robert-Houdin.” Inscribed and signed by Emile Robert-Houdin, son of the great magician, and the principal assistant in many of his father’s most famous feats, this book is evidence of a historical link between two great minds in magic.