Images from the 1898 book Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography.
The aquatic theatre, Paris.
If you have a female cleaner at your place of work, residence or education, why don’t you call her a “janitress”? Then she will hit you with her broom.
I think these fire eaters, or some very like them, appear in a few early films. Georges Méliès?
Don’t lick red-hot bars of iron, unless you are a mountebank. Whatever that is.
The mysterious ball. Yes. Yes it is. This is like something from a David Lynch film.
ADOXOBLOG 
Oh look, somebody has dismembered this lovely volume so they can flog off the illustrations for £6.76 each. It’s perhaps more likely (and I really hope) they haven’t destroyed an 1898 edition but have used instead the Dover facsimile reprint of it, in which case it’s not even vintage or handmade (i.e. within Etsy’s own weaselly worded, very elastic definition of what they’re meant to be selling.) Whether they’re selling reproductions as vintage or ruining rare antique books– because one of these must be the case unless there’a really obvious alternative explanation I’m missing– Etsy and Etsy sellers never cease to amaze with their audacity.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/94120132/1898-theatre-illusion-the-new-aquatic
http://www.regretsy.com/category/not-remotely-handmade/
Top tip: You can buy the whole (copyright free, Dover reproduction) book for about £8-£20 if you really want to cannibalise it for parts.
It’s also been scanned by Google.
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Magic.html?id=e20Ph8Mkj8UC