This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/26/2021
Collection of Early Circus Advertisements. Approximately 100 early newspaper advertisements for Astley’s circus and its contemporaries, spanning the 1840s–90s, and including notices not only for Astley, but Mr. Rarey (and his horse-taming act), Howes and Cushing’s Great United States’ Circus, a French “Lion Queen,” Mr. Didbin, James Newsome, Barnum & Bailey, Royal Alhambra Palace Circus, and many more.