LA MAGIE DEVOILEE and SUPPLEMENT, A LA MAGIE BLANCHE DEVOILEE Ou explication des Tours surprenants qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale et de la Province.

Paris, Chez F. J. Desoer, 1789.. TITLE CONTINUED: Avec des réflexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les Automates joueurs d'échecs, etc. TEXT IN FRENCH. Volumes 1 and 2 bound together, 1789. 8vo, approximately 200 x 125 mm, 8 x 5 inches, VOLUME 1: 1 engraved plate, 2 full page woodcuts and 1 small woodcut in text, pictorial headpiece to first page, pages: viii, 1-118; VOLUME 2: 1 engraving, 2 full page woodcuts, 29 numbered small text illustrations, 1 folding table, pages: viii, 1-272, last page blank, both half-titles present, bound in full speckled sheep, gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine. Binding slightly rubbed and scuffed, repair to top of upper cover (see attached image), 1 top corner worn with board showing, minor worming to inner margins of Volume 1, pages 1-18 and pages 71-118, not affecting text, and minor worming to all lower margins of Volume 2 not near text or illustrations, most hardly visible, minor browning to pastedowns and endpapers, a good copy, text clean. See: Trevor Hall, Old Conjuring Books, A Bibliographical and Historical Study with Check-List, pages 156-158; Sotheby's The Finlay Collection on Conjuring, Part 1, page 36 list all the volumes; Clarke and Blind, The Bibliography of Conjuring, page 23; Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Compiled by Harry Price, Volume 1, page 153. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.