Sold for:
$150
$150
Handbook of Amusing and Instructive Experiments. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1861. Modern maroon calf, the boards stamped with a single-line border, compartments on spine gilt-stamped with title and date. Top edge gilt. Marbled endsheets. Publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth retained in binding. 8vo. p. [i-iii] iv-vi, [7] 8-88, + p. 1-8 advts. Very good. Toole Stott 329. Section IX, Legerdemain, includes tricks with coins and handkerchiefs, the disappearance of a person from a table, and tricks with food.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31
