Lot 145

Lot 145

[Magic] Le Petit Magicien... Ricky Jay Copy

Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM ET

Live / New York

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[Magic] Le Petit Magicien, ou Recueil D'Experiences Tirees de la Magie blanche et des amusemens des sciences

Paris: Chez Delarue/Lille: chez Castiaux, no date (ca. 1820). 24mo. 90 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 40 numbered engravings on 10 sheets. Original stiff printed blue wrappers, frontispiece image repeated on rear wrapper, scattered light wear to extremities and at top of spine; light spotting to text; light dampstaining in top corner of a few leaves at front; in grey linen fall-down-back box. From the collection of magician Ricky Jay, and with his book-plate on inner front board of box.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, The Ricky Jay Collection, October 27-28, 2021. Sale N10706. Lot 489

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

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