Laughing gas.- Exceptional performances.- New Strand Theatre...Herr Schmidt will administer Nitrous Oxyde, or The Lauging Gas, to any of the audience inclined to inhale it...[and with] Ramo Samee, the original Indian juggler!, letterpress, 420 x 225 mm (16 1/2 x 8 3/4 in), mounted on linen support, some small losses, unframed, 19th century; together with seven further playbills, with another variant 'New Strand Theatre...Wonderful Effects of the laughing Gas and Silly Sally!', 'Micorcosm 24, Regent Street... Achromatic Microscope exhibited by Hydro-Oxygen Gas', another with Laughing Gas and 'The celebrated East Indian Ramo Samee!, and others including 'Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh [with] The popular acrobat Monsieur Plege [on] the tight rope and bounding cord', and similar, letterpress, various sizes, all unframed, 19th century (8)
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