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Sat, Dec 3, 2016 11:00AM EST - Sun, Dec 4, 2016 11:00AM EST
Lot 151

The Conjuror's Repository, Or The Whole Art and Mystery of Magic Displayed

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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The Conjuror's Repository, Or, The Whole Art and Mystery of Magic Displayed. London: J.D. Dewick, for T. and R. Hughes, ca. 1805. Gilt-stamped leather, spine ornately tooled with morocco title compartments, top edge gilded. Hand-colored frontispiece. 12mo. p. [1-3] 4-73, 76-146 (74-75 omitted from pagination by printer's error). Internally very good, some evidence of small ink spill on a few pages at top edge. Toole Stott 181.

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