£380
OCCULT and PLAYING CARD Interest. 'The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping,' by Ed. S. Taylor, handsomely rebound in half leather with marble boards, colour frontis engraving, plates throughout, John Camden, London. 1865; Prof HOFFMAN. 'The Book of Card and Table Games,' original pictorial cloth, staining to spine, rubbed, some spotting, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1893; WILLIAM ANDREW CHATTO. 'Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards,' original clutch, hand coloured frontis and plates, some toning to plates, John Russell Smith, London, 1848; With twenty-two other books o magic and palour games including 'Drawing Room Conjuring' (1887), 'The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic, or How to Become a Wizard' (1878); with a small number of paperbacks. (22+)
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