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PHILION, Achille. An Attraction Without a Parallel. Buffalo: The Courier Co., 1899 (no. 2656). Full-color stone lithograph depicting the “marvelous equilibrist and originator” at several intervals during his act, with an inset portrait of Philion in the upper left. While balancing atop a wooden sphere, the French daredevil would ascend and descend a spiral tower and venture out onto a “slender cable forty feet from the ground”. As pictured, the climax of Philion’s performance involved “rushing headlong down the tower enveloped in flames and fireworks.” Framed to 43 x 29 ¾”. Light staining to margins. Not examined out of frame. See LP&FW pp. 204 - 5. Exemplars, p. 316.