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Lot 113
[CARDIFF GIANT] Six Works Regarding the Cardiff Giant and S...
Estimate: $500 - $800
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
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[CARDIFF GIANT] Six Works Regarding the Cardiff Giant and Similar Hoaxes. Including The Cardiff Giant Humbug. A Complete and Thorough Exposition of the Greatest Deception of the Age. Fort Dodge, Iowa: North West Book & Job Printing, 1870. Pictorial wraps, illustrated with woodcuts ?from the quarry to the tomb.? - - Dunn, James Taylor. Cardiff Giant Hoax. Cooperstown: The Farmers? Museum, ca. 1949. Includes a bibliography on the subject. Pictorial wraps, illustrated. 8vo. Disbound. - - History of the Geological Wonder of the World: Petrified Pre-Historic Human Being. New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1877. Pictorial blue wrappers (considerably chipped, lacking lower). 8vo. Fair to poor. - - The Cardiff Giant Now Exhibiting at Apollo Hall. [New York], ca. 1880. Four pages, wood engraving to uppermost. Disbound. - - A Photograph of a Petrified Body aka the Cardiff Giant. Syracuse: C.O. Gott, 1869. Sepia tone image in cabinet card format on photographer?s printed mount. - - and The Cardiff Giant Now Exhibiting at 113 Washington Street. Boston, ca. 1880. Four pages, wood engraving to lowermost. Very good.
