Magic Auction for NEMCA
Sun, Nov 15, 2020 12:00PM EST
Lot 61
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Confidences et Revelations. Par...
Estimate: $400 - $800
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Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugene. Confidences et Revelations. Paris: A. Delahays, 1868. Blue cloth spine over boards, rubbed. Marbled endsheets. Attractive three-quarter albumen portrait frontispiece of Robert-Houdin. Illustrated with classic images of Robert-Houdin?s most famous feats, and with optical illusion signature device on title page. 440pp. Tall 8vo. Ex-libris Robert de Lestanville. Wear, abrasion, and creasing at corners of cover. Tidelines on last 20 pages, otherwise interior clean and binding stable. Handsome early edition of Robert-Houdin?s famous work with an attractive contemporary photograph of the great magician as issued.
