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NEW-YORK, published by E. Duyckinck, 102 Pearl-Street. Nicholas Van Riper, Print. 1814.. Title continued: By which the meanest may perform the whole without the help of a Teacher. Together with the use of all the instruments belonging thereto. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED Abundance of New and Rare Inventions. Seventeenth Edition, 1814. LACKING FRONTISPIECE, facsimile pasted inside front cover, 12mo, approximately 130 x 80 mm, 5¼ x 3¼ inches, facsimile frontispiece, woodcuts in the text, pages: [1], 5-107, full old calf. Binding worn and creased, leather soft and flexible, spine has stitching down the spine (see image), closed tear to first page of text repaired with small pieces of document repair tape, tip of lower corner repaired, 1 margin has small repair, tip of 1 corner missing, not affecting text, corners creased due to turn down, a few chips to margins, pale browning and staining throughout, no loose pages, fair condition, well used copy of a scarce New York printing. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Leary & Getz, 1853. [The title continues:] WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO PERFORM THE VARIOUS TRICKS, ON CARDS, DICE, BIRDS, RINGS &c. Engraved frontispiece, 71 pages of text, and a 64 page catalogue of "historical, theological, juvenile, and miscellaneous" books published by Leary & Getz. 16mo. First Philadelphia edition, preceded in the United States only by editions published in New York and Boston. Like all early editions, this one is rare--WorldCat locates only 3 copies in libraries worldwide. First published in 1722, the book drew extensively on Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) and William Vincent's Hocus Pocus Jr. The Anatomie of Legerdemain (1634) for its description of magic tricks, many of which are performed by magicians today. The book's popularity among magicians was so strong that there were numerous editions published in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but paradoxically demand was so… Read More

New York: Published by N.C. Nafis; Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, 1830. Early American edition. Folding woodcut frontispiece. 71, [1, blank]pp. 12mo. Original blue-green pictorial paper boards, publisher's ad on rear cover. Spine perished, front board detached. Bookplate of Charles Stewart Butler. Early American edition. Folding woodcut frontispiece. 71, [1, blank]pp. 12mo. An early American edition of the first magic book published in the United States, first publlished by Carey in 1795. The work, often attributed to Dean was originally published in England in 1722. The frontispiece depicts a conjuror firing a pistol and pinning a playing card to the wall. Same typesetting as the 1833 New York edition, with a reset title including Perry's Philadelphia inprint. Toole Stott 724

Printed and Sold by T. Sabine, No. 81, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, and by all Booksellers in Town and Country. London. No date [1790?]. Ninth Edition, with large Additions and Amendments. 12mo.. pp. 108. Woodcut frontispiece within the pagination, numerous text woodcuts. Original unlettered canvas binding with the slightest wear to the head of the spine; the boards, from the spine to the edge of the front board is 93 mm. at the top and 90 mm. at the lower edge and the resultant diminution of c.3mm. accounts for the shaving of the book-block prior to binding; the shaving has reduced the fore-edge margins throughout with the occasional loss of some letters. This is entirely original - these canvas bindings were produced by specialist binders for inexpensive books, either school text books or those sold door-to-door by pedlars. Two leaves have original paper flaws - in one of these, the top corner had been creased prior to printing resulting in the final letters at the end of the first six lines recto… Read More

London: Printed by T. Sabine, 1785. MAGIC AND CONJURING. Eighth edition, "with large Additions and Amendments." Twelvemo (5 3/4 x 3 7/16 inches; 147 x 87 mm). [3]-108 pp. With woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcuts illustrations in the text. We could only find one copy on OCLC at Brown University, and one copy at auction in 1979. The frontispiece is pasted down to front cover, as probably issued as the other copies seem to have it the same way. This edition is not listed on ESTC, two other copies which are both "Ninth" editions, rather than eighth, printed by T. Sabine are listed, both of which are dated [1790?]. Our present copy does have the same pagination and catchword on page 14 "pudding" as one of these listings (T138106). Contemporary drab brown cloth, with some minor rubbing. A bit of light toning and a few minor stains throughout. Previous owner's old ink signature on rear pastedown, dated 1793. Previous owner's initials "I. M. 1792" stamped on the cloth of the back board. Overall a… Read More

London: Printed for J. Bew, 1789. MAGIC AND CONJURING. Ninth edition "corrected, and improved with an entire new Set of Cuts." Twelvemo (5 7/8 x 3 3/8 inches; 150 x 86 mm). [3]-132 pp. With frontispiece woodcut and numerous other woodcuts throughout the text. The woodcuts in this edition are a bit cleaner and more refined than those of the T. Sabine eighth edition. We could only find two copies of this on OCLC, no copies on ABPC in the past 40 years and only one other copy on Rare Book Hub. ESTC does not list a J. Bew edition of 1789 but this conforms to that of the listing for the 1781 edition. Contemporary drab brown cloth. With remnants of original paper on spine with "Hocus Pocus" in manuscript. With some minor rubbing to cloth. Cloth is starting to split along front and back hinge. Inner hinges cracked but holding. A one-inch split to top outer hinge. A bit of light toning and a few minor stains throughout. Previous owner's old ink signature on front pastedown, and front free endpaper. Overall… Read More

London, printed for L. Hawes and Co. and S. Crowder in Pater-Noster-Row, and R. Ware and Co. on Ludgate-Hill, 1763.. Title continued: By which the meanest Capacity may perform the Whole ART without a Teacher. Together with the Use of all the Instruments belonging thereto. To Which Is Now Added, Abundance of New and Rare Inventions the like never before in Print, but much desired by many. Written by H. DEAN. HOCUS POCUS EARLY EDITION. The sixth edition, 1763. 12mo, approximately 145 x 80 mm, 5¾ x 3½ inches, woodcut frontispiece, 33 pages with woodcuts of various sizes, some of the images vary slightly from the later editions, pages: 2 leaves, 5 [6], 7-132, including frontispiece and title page, rebound in half modern black leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, large bookplate of Walter B. Graham. "Walter B. Graham (1923-2018) was a printer and semi-professional magician performing comedy magic for over seven decades". Frontispiece tipped onto the front endpaper, probably by the binder, with… Read More