This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2024
Le Petit Magicien, ou Recueil D’Expériences Tirée de la Magie blanche et des amusemens des sciences. Paris: Chez Delarue and Lille, Chez Castiaux, [ca. 1820]. Original printed wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 40 intertextual diagrams. 90 pp. Wrappers worn, soiled, chipped, front joint repaired, a few gutters cracking, some soiling to lower corner of wrappers and text. Front and rear blanks appear to be affixed to inner wrappers. Still, a very good example of this scarce early French magic book in the original wrappers. Frontispiece design repeated on rear wrapper. This anonymous book has text mainly “borrowed” from Decremps. Fechner P14.