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[FORTUNE TELLING] FOUR WORKS ON FORTUNE TELLING AND CARTOMANCY. Four chapbooks from the early nineteenth century, including: The Instructing Gypsy. London: J.D. Dewick, 1809. Colored frontispiece. 8vo. — The Snow Storm, A Scottish Tale, to which is added the Secret of Fortune Telling. New York: Johnstone & Van Norden, 1823. Woodcut frontispiece. 8vo. — Park’s True Fortune Teller. London: A. Park, 1820s. Wood engraved front wrapper. Bifolium. — and New Norwood Gipsy; or, Complete Art of Fortune Telling. New York: W. Borradaile, 1823. Folding frontispiece (laid down, with losses). 8vo. Disbound. Together four ephemera, chapbooks, three extracted from larger volumes, and all with various spots of wear, faults, and soiling. All complete. The first title includes various conjuring tricks: how to make a bird appear dead, a sieve and shears divination effect, and how to fasten a ring at the end of a string and, after burning it, to leave the ring hanging at the end of it.