The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 456. Moore, Ann | The Fasting Woman of Tutbury.

Moore, Ann | The Fasting Woman of Tutbury

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Moore, Ann

The Fasting Woman of Tutbury, Staffordshire. Burton [upon Trent]: Croft, [ca. 1812]


Broadside (406 x 292 mm). Decorative woodcut border, faint finger-soiling, closed marginal tears. Mounted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas; not examined out of frame. 


"Ann Moore … is perhaps the most famous of all fasting imposters—not because her accomplishments were in any way more impressive than [others], but because she happened to be included in numerous nineteenth-century anthologies devoted to eccentric characters" (Exemplars, p. 158). 


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 158 

You May Also Like

Playing Cards — Arms of the English Peers
Playing Cards — Arms of the English Peers

(London: Circa 1688)

Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 USD

Hainlin, Johann Jakob | Synopsis Mathematica, Tubingen, 1653, first edition, stiff vellum
Hainlin, Johann Jakob | Synopsis Mathematica, Tubingen, 1653, first edition, stiff vellum

Estimate: 1,000 - 1,500 USD

(Newtoniana) — Martin, Benjamin | A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy ..., Reading, 1743, first edition
(Newtoniana) — Martin, Benjamin | A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy ..., Reading, 1743, first edition

Estimate: 1,500 - 2,500 USD

Boyle, Robert | A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical..., Oxford, 1669, first edition
Boyle, Robert | A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical..., Oxford, 1669, first edition

Estimate: 1,500 - 2,500 USD

Guerrino, Tommaso | Trattato astronomico per la costruzione delle effemeridi e il metodo di calcolare gli ecclissi, Milan, 1762, first edition, contemporary calf
Guerrino, Tommaso | Trattato astronomico per la costruzione delle effemeridi e il metodo di calcolare gli ecclissi, Milan, 1762, first edition, contemporary calf

Estimate: 1,200 - 1,800 USD

Apollonius of Pergeus | Conicorum lib. V. VI. VII... paraphraste ab Alphatop Asphahanensi, Florence, 1661, first edition
Apollonius of Pergeus | Conicorum lib. V. VI. VII... paraphraste ab Alphatop Asphahanensi, Florence, 1661, first edition

Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 USD

Bohr, Niels | On the Transmutation of Atomic Nuclei by Impact of Material Particles, Copenhagen, 1937, first edition
Bohr, Niels | On the Transmutation of Atomic Nuclei by Impact of Material Particles, Copenhagen, 1937, first edition

Estimate: 1,000 - 1,500 USD

Bion, Nicholas | Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique, Paris, 1709, first edition
Bion, Nicholas | Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathematique, Paris, 1709, first edition

Estimate: 1,200 - 1,800 USD

Wilkins, John | Mathematical Magick, London, 1680, brown paneled sheep
Wilkins, John | Mathematical Magick, London, 1680, brown paneled sheep

Estimate: 1,000 - 1,500 USD

Hero of Alexandria — Bernardino Baldi (trans.) | De gli automati, overo machine se moventi, Venice, 1589, first edition, contemporary vellum
Hero of Alexandria — Bernardino Baldi (trans.) | De gli automati, overo machine se moventi, Venice, 1589, first edition, contemporary vellum

Estimate: 3,000 - 5,000 USD