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[PRE-CINEMA]. Group of Pre-Cinema Ephemera. Ten pieces. Includes: The Famous High German Machine. Or, Most Ingenious and Surprising Moving Paper-Work. [London: ca. 1737]. One-color pictorial letterpress playbill bearing a wood-engraved royal coat of arms and advertising performances of Mrs. Vandenhurk’s early moving panorama show. Laid down. Horizontal center crease, minor soiling; — Small letterpress broadside advertising a camera obscura exhibition near the Humber River in Kingston Upon Hull. Hull: W. Rawson, 1803. Horizontal center crease; — One-color letterpress playbill advertising animated panorama performances of the “Siege of St. Sebastian” by “Messrs. Childs” and “Mr. Bologna, Jun.” (John Peter Bologna 1775 - 1846) at London’s Royal Mechanical Theatre. Lambeth: T. Romney, [ca. 1814]. Creases, fraying to edges; — Letterpress broadside advertising mechanical moving panorama performances, in six parts, by “Messrs. Le Fort and Company” from Paris at the Sans Pareil Theatre. [London]: Lowndes, 1816. Lower right side tattered with tiny losses; — Two small pictorial letterpress handbills advertising the “Colonial Panorama” of Samuel Charles Brees (1810 - 1865) at Linwood Gallery. [London]: James Carrall, [ca. 1850]. Bearing a wood-engraved image of an English colonist holding a musket by one end and staring down a native man holding a spear by one end, mirroring his aggressively stance. One unbacked and another (likely later, with additions to the advertised program) linen-backed. Creases, light soiling; — Letterpress ticket to a “Grand Moving Panorama of the Arctic Regions” including the “Search for Sir John Franklin” and a “Splendid Moving Diapharama of the Great Earthquake at Lisbon” taking place at London’s Linwood Gallery. [England, hand-dated 1852]. Tiny losses and creases; —Letterpress stock broadside advertising “M. J. Millious’ Magic Show, with 117 Different Views” (three copies, two with holographic details pertaining to venue and date). Rome, N.Y.: Beers & Kessinger, [ca. late 1800s]. One example with misprinting to lower right corner. Soiling, small tears and tiny losses. Largest 23 ½ x 9”.