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Lot 279

ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean Eugene (1805-1871). Card-Sharping Expos...

Estimate: $500 - $600

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ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean Eugene (1805-1871). Card-Sharping Exposed. London: George Routledge and Son, [n.d., ca. 1880s]. A group of eleven copies of early English editions of this title about cheating. 8vos. Illustrated. Publisher?s pictorial cloth. Wear, soiling, some toning to spines, some with cracked hinges, bookplates. Generally, good or better. This title had originally been published in English as The Sharper Detected and Exposed in 1863; this version is the revised and expanded version.