(Legerdemain) | A rare early American edition

(Legerdemain)

The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or, Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained, by Those Renowned Masters… Baltimore: C.V. Nickerson, 1830

16mo (150 x 92 mm). Engraved handcolored folding frontispiece; closed tears to fontis, which is nearly detached, other closed primarily marginal tears, pp. 51-52 torn with loss, some foxing and soiling. Original proctorially printed green paper-covered boards, red cloth spine; extremities rubbed, large tear to upper board with loss, textblock detached. 

A rare early American edition, with "instructions how to perform the various tricks…as practiced before their sublime Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of China, the crowned Heads of Europe, and the President and people of the United States" (title).

REFERENCE:

Toole Stott 722