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Lot 481

Pepper, Professor (John Henry Pepper). The True History of ...

Estimate: $600 - $1,200

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Pepper, Professor (John Henry Pepper). The True History of Pepper?s Ghost. London: Cassell & Co., 1890. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Folding frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo. 46pp. + 8 leaves publisher's advts. Light edgewear to covers, binding shaken, chipped. Contemporary marginalia in an unknown hand with references to Phantasmagoria, Porta?s Natural Magick, and related subjects, and with several sheets of notes in the same hand laid in, including references to the illusions of A. Walker. Scarce.