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[ROBERT-HOUDIN] HAMILTON (Pierre Etienne Chocat, 1812 – 77). ThÉÂtre Robert-Houdin. Souvenir des Séances d’Hamilton. Paris: Jouaust, ca. 1862. Printed orange wrappers. Lithographic frontispiece of Hamilton. Five plates, including, the classic image of Robert-Houdin presenting the Orange Tree automaton. Oblong 12mo. Foxed and soiled with faint dampstains, but sturdy and sound; good. In a cloth-covered slipcase, spine strip titled and ruled in gilt. Hamilton was Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin’s pupil and successor. He moved his mentor’s famous theatre to the Boulevard des Italiens in the 1850s and remained its principal performer and proprietor for years. This souvenir booklet was modeled on the Album des Soirées Fantastiques of Robert-Houdin, published in 1849.