The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained

by Henry Dean

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Early American edition. Folding woodcut frontispiece. 71, 1, blank pp. 12mo. Original blue-green pictorial paper boards, publisher's ad on rear cover. Spine perished, front board detached. Bookplate of Charles Stewart Butler. Toole Stott 724. Item #325063 An early American edition of the first magic book published in the United States, first publlished by Carey in 1795. The work, often attributed to Dean

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