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The Ricky Jay Collection

Sat, Feb 25, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 36

Doctor Beattie’s Marvelous Vivisection. New York: Dick’s Pu...

Estimate: $200 - $400

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DOCTOR BEATTIE?S MARVELOUS VIVISECTION. New York: Dick?s Publishing House, ca. 1888. Publisher?s pink pictorial wraps with portrait of Beattie on the upper and a wood-engraved image of the Vivisection illusion (a la Dr. Lynn) to the lower. Woodcut illustrations. 16pp, 16mo. Very good. The first example we have encountered.