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[HOCUS POCUS] [PILULAND, Elias]. Borgemach. Darinnen Der Lu...

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[HOCUS POCUS] [PILULAND, Elias].?Borgemach. Darinnen Der Luriose Kunstler Borstellet Eine Butzliche Einleitung Zu denen nachfolgenden Zimmern Des Zeit turkenden Lustund Spiel Hauses (?In it the lurid artist presents a charming introduction to the following rooms of the time-trapping pleasure and play house?")?Kunstburg (Hamburg), [ca. 1680]. Small 8vo. 150, [32], [1]-578 [sic] pp. Lacks double-page frontispiece and general title-page - this is only a portion of the complete work (which extended to roughly 1,500 pages). Title-pages and several intertextual woodcuts printed in black and red. Includes the famous ?Hocus Pocus" woodcut print first popularized in the early seventeenth century in Hocus Pocus Junior. Modern half brown calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in blind (some mild wear to binding, text toned, occasionally soiled and stained, worn, creased, pages 421-428 and last few leaves lacking). Fair. A RARE EARLY GERMAN EDITION OF ?HOCUS POCUS JUNIOR," and an important guide to stage magic and other amusements.