[DEAN, HENRY.] The Whole Art of Legerdemain. New York: N.C. Nafis, Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, [1833].

[DEAN, HENRY.]


The Whole Art of Legerdemain. New York: N.C. Nafis, Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, [1833]. 16mo (144 x 83 mm). Folding frontis, printed in blue. Publisher's buff pictorial printed boards, joints and extremities worn, minor soiling, minor foxing.


Provenance: Benjamin Charles Leech (stamps to endpapers, lower margin of frontis); John A. McKinven (his sale, Potter & Potter, Chicago, May 13, 2012, lot 219).


EARLY AMERICAN EDITION, with folding frontis showing a conjuror nailing a card to the wall with a pistol. Toole-Stott 724.



WITH: Another early American edition. Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1853. 16mo (148 x 92 mm). Engraved frontispiece. String-bound, lacking covers. Toole Stott 729.

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