Houdiniana
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Lot 273
Le petit magicien, ou, recueil d’expériences Tirées de la M...
Estimate: $400 - $600
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Le petit magicien, ou, recueil d?exp?riences Tir?es de la Magie blanche des Amusemens des sciences. Lille: Castiaux, n.d. [1817?]. 32mo. 16 pp. zodiac calendar dated 1817 at end. Wood?engraved frontispiece, title?page woodcut vignette of a magician, 40 woodcuts printed as 15 full?page text illustrations (frontispiece detached with edgewear). Original rear pictorial wrapper over binder?s waste (lacking upper cover, preliminary leaf ?Garde? detached and with library call number, spine panel perished but textblock still stitched). Provenance: An American institutional embossed stamp on title). POSSIBLY THE EARLIEST EDITION OBTAINABLE; this title is typically encountered with an undated imprint and with an approximate date of 1820 (see 1817 calendar at end).
