Fine Photographica including The Mike Simkin Magic Lantern Collection

A Wrench 35mm cast-iron, brass and tinplate Hand-Crank Model AA Cinematograph Projector, dog movement, with interchangeable magic lantern lens, an...

BFI Copies of early 35mm Silent Films, safety stock, 35mm - ‘Rescued by Rover’, Cecil Hepworth, ‘The Great Train Robbery’, Edwin S Porter, ‘Victor...

A Moy & Bastie 35mm mahogany and brass Hand-Crank Movie Camera, with Dallmeyer brass 3in rack and pinion lens with iris diaphragm, with two magazi...

A Mutoscope painted steel and cast iron ‘What The Butler Saw’ Coin-Operated Motion Picture Reel Viewer, hand crank operation, with headboard adver...

A rare E C Reynaud mahogany-cased coin-operated Praxinoscope Musical Box, with B H Abrahams eight-air musical box, with single comb, pinned barrel...

A German ‘Le Voyage Autour du Monde En 30 Minutes’ chromolithographic card and paper Toy Theatre, with crank-operated twin scenic paper rolls and ...

A Telescopic View of The Great Exhibition 1851’ Peep Show, designed by T J Rawlins, printed by C Moody, F, some foxing and soiling

An E C Reynaud ‘Le Praxinoscope’, mirrored drum on turned wooden base, G, part of base column missing, with Reynaud picture strips (5), P-F

A ‘Wallis’s Wheel of Wonders exhibiting the most amusing Optical Illusions’ Phenakistoscope, with slotted disc and picture discs by various makers...

A French lithographed ‘Tableaux Lumineux/Theatre des Ombres’, Revue de 14 Juillet a Paris’ on lid, with ‘Ombres Chinoises’ proscenium frame, with ...

A German devotional Lithophane, rectangular, depicting boy at prayer, in metal fretwork frame, on column with hexagonal fretwork base, G, support ...

A Polyorama Panoptique lithographed paper-covered wood ‘Hold to Light’ Viewer, with twelve paper transparencies, 220mm wide, F-G

A French lithographed ‘Tableaux Lumineux/Voyage Autour du Monde Par Un Petit Francais’ Theatre, with ‘Theatre des Voyages et des Actualites’ prosc...

An H G Clarke coloured lithographic Thaumatrope, with rectangular cards (11) and silhouette cards, possibly home-made, in original box, G, some fo...

E C Reynaud hand-coloured transfer lithographed glass Praxinoscope Transparencies, twelve ‘cells’ of boy with dog jumping through hoop, in modern...

E C Reynaud hand-coloured transfer lithographed glass Praxinoscope Transparencies, seven ‘cells’ of jockey on cantering horse, in modern frame, w...

A black-painted tinplate London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co Zoetrope or Wheel of Life, on turned mahogany base, F, with picture strips (25), ...

A Milton Bradley & Co lithographed card ‘The Myriopticon Historical Panorama of the Rebellion’, scenes from the American Civil War, with crank-ope...

A French lithographed ‘Ombro-Cinema’ Toy Shadow Theatre, with ‘Ombro-Cinema’ proscenium frame, ‘Charlot’ (Charlie leaning to one side), framing tw...

Alabaster Souvenir Peep Eggs, views of Wales and of Derbyshire, F (2)

A Kinora three-person Motion Picture Reel Viewer, the ornate mahogany viewer with three adjacent concave lenses and crank handle, with hinged reel...

A wooden Gorham’s Kaleidoscopic Colour Top, sold by Elliott Brothers, 30 Strand, London, with various discs (18), with instructions, repaired, in ...

An Ives Kromskop Kromogram, with printed label for The Photochromoscope Syndicate and ink title ‘17 Fruit Twirl’, still-life of table setting with...

Autochrome Plates, fishing sail boats in harbour at low and high tide, including ‘Young John’, landscapes including ruined stone houses, garden wi...

Silver nitrate glass plate negatives, country house gardens with games in progress and family groups, 10 x 8 (3), half-plate (4), F-G (7)

Stereoscopes and Stereo Cards, Underwood & Underwood-type viewers (3), various cards including Elliott ‘La Soiree’, ‘Ghost in the Stereoscope’, Ch...

Le Phenakistiscope’ by Alphonse Giroux et Cie, with various period discs (23), slotted disc and handle, in original box, circa 1840, F-G, some inf...

A Japanese polished metal and brass Magic Mirror’, in lacquered case, 360mm long, G, case F, some edges missing

A London Stereoscopic Co ‘The New Jewel Kaleidoscope’, the paper-covered card cylindrical body with brass turn-wheel capsule, on painted cast-iron...

Optical Novelties, transforming ‘Living Picture’ portrait of man, similar of lady, Children’s Newspaper novelty of jazz musicians, cigarette cards...

Flicker Books, A Story without Words’, W L Isaacs, 1897, ‘Cinematograph Living Pictures’ (5), Donald & Pluto, five in one, 1939, Sir Malcolm Campb...

A C & F Darker lacquered brass Projecting Kaleidoscope’, in fitted mahogany case, 180mm wide, circa 1880

Magic Lantern Books, not published by magic lantern manufacturers - The Magic Lantern Manual, Chadwick, W J, The Lantern and How to Use It, Scovil...

Magic Lantern Books, The Ghost, Dircks, H, Modern Magic Lanterns and Their Management, The Book of The Lantern, Hepworth, T C, The Art of Projecti...

Magic Lantern Books, Magic Lantern Journal Annual, 1897-1898 and 1898-1899, Optical Projection, Wright, L, The Magic Lantern Struwelpeter and slid...

Magic Lantern Slide Catalogues, including Wood’s 1912-1913, Philips and others (2), P-G (4)

Newton & Co Catalogues, Lanterns & Slides, circa 1910 and Part II, circa 1912, F-G (2) ...[more]

The Wrench Illustrated Catalogue, including lanterns, slides and accessories, circa 1908/1909, F-G

Magic Lantern Books and Catalogues by Manufacturers, The Magic Lantern, Perken, Son and Rayment, Magic Lanterns, Horne, Thornthwaite & Wood, Newto...

Magic Lantern and Slide Manufacturer’s Catalogues, Walter Tyler & Co, circa 1910, and John Wrench, 1902/1903, P-F (2)

Photographic and other Trade Catalogues, Boots, circa 1912, repaired, J Lancaster, 1896, Townson & Mercer, 1905 and W & J George, 1929, G (4)

Shadow Puppetry, New Lights and Shadows on the Wall, Fireside, F (3), Hand Shadows, Bursill, H (2), Animal Shadows on the Wall, and others (2), an...

Magic Lantern Readings, most filed and titled in uniform buff envelopes, various dates and conditions, and other literature (apx. 220)

Magic Lanterns, Lectures for the Magic Lanterns, Milliken and Lawley, pamphlets on slide making and painting (10), readings and sheet music and va...

Clark’s Amateur’s Assistant, Clark, J, Samuel Leigh, 1827, G, re-bound

Essai Historique sur Les Lanternes, Dole, A, ‘Lucnophile & Compagnie’, 1755, G

Endless Entertainments, 3rd ed., Thomas Boys, London, circa 1820, F

A Treatise on Optics, Brewster D, Longman, 1851, period re-binding, G

Letters on Natural Magic, Brewster, Sir D, John Murray, 1832, G, re-bound

The Kaleidoscope, Brewster, Sir D, John Murray, 1858, 2nd Ed., G, re-bound

The Stereoscope, Brewster, Sir D, John Murray, 1856, G, with Brewster autograph letter signed, explaining that he has asked Mr Murray to send him ...

Tableau of the Procession at The Queen’s Coronation, Robert Tyas, 1838, F-G

The History of the Quartern Loaf, Griffith & Farrant, in contemporary presentation gilt morocco binding, dedicated 1858, VG

The Magic Lantern, Tabart & Co, 1st ed., 1806, F

The Illustrated Polytechnic Review, January 7 - October 14 1843, marbled boards, F

The Motograph Moving Picture Book, Bliss, Sands & Co, London, 1898, cover by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, P-F

An Essay on Transparent Prints, Orme, E, published by author, London, 1807, 1st ed., G, with author autograph letter signed, 1804, G

The Horse in Motion, Stillman, J, James Osgood, Boston, 1882, G

The Human Figure in Motion, Muybridge, E, Chapman and Hall, London, 3rd ed., 1907, G

The Regent’s Park Colosseum, Hyde, R, Ackermann, London, 1982, 76/200, in folio case, VG