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Humbug: A Look at Some Popular Impositions. New York: S.F. French, 1859. Original pictorial wrappers. A few illustrations. 12mo. 94pp. Old graphite notations to lower wrap., minor tears and chipping, fine overall. With chapters devoted to bogus advertisements and schemes including patent medicine, love powders, astrology, lotteries, and more, reproducing several phony broadsides in the text. The cover depicts two of P.T. Barnum’s attractions: the Fiji Mermaid and Joyce Heath [sic].