The Ricky Jay Collection
Sat, Feb 25, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 308
SECUNDUS, Merlin (pseud.) The Veritable Black Art. New York...
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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| $1,000 | $100 |
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SECUNDUS, Merlin (pseud.) The Veritable Black Art. New York: Advance Publishing Co., (1875). Plain brown-black cloth. Wood-engraved frontispiece of a ghost terrorizing a man holding a pistol. Illustrated. 8vo. Hinges weak, dampstains, soiling, cloth rubbed and chipped; good to fair. Not in Toole Stott and apparently unrecorded elsewhere, though later pulp editions have been recorded. A curious treatise that explains alchemy, magic, astrology, fortune-telling, and phrenology. It also exposes the tricks of the Davenport Brothers, illustrates the method behind Pepper?s Ghost and magic lanterns, as well as other tricks.
