Sold for:
$3,400
$3,400
[Decremps, Henri] The Conjurer Unmasked. London: Printed for C. Stalker, Stationer’s Court, 1790. Third Edition, with large additions and alterations, by Denton and others. Nineteenth century three-quarter crimson leather with marbled sides, gilt title. Top edge gilded. Marbled endsheets. Engraved frontispiece, “The Professor of amusing philosophy” nailing a card to the wall with a pistol. 12mo. Two leaves, p. [i] ii – viii, [1] 2 – 128 + 2 leaves advts. Scattered light foxing at start, small corner chip on frontis. repaired, else very good. Ex-libris John Streatfield, George Johnson, and John Henry Grossman. Toole Stott 237.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
