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A MAGIC HOW-TO


Alberti's I Giochi Numerici Fatti Arcani (Bologna 1747, 8vo), teaches how to perform magic tricks like the shell game, card games & rope tricks, as well as how to construct devices for sophisticated illusions.


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A CURIOSITY CABINET OF CONVERSATION


Draud's Colloquia Maioli Post-Canicularia, Juvenilia Et Senilia (Frankfurt a.M. 1617, 4to), a series of bewildering & amusing discussions with a penchant for the marvelous & esoteric.

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"A LIBRARY FOUNDED FOR ALL"


A collection of seven speeches in French & German (Stuttgart 1765, 4to) delivered at the festival opening what is now the Württembergische Landesbibliothek on 11 February 1765.


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BY NOBLES, HUNTERS, GAMBLERS & LOVERS


Les Troubadours Modernes ou Amusemens Littéraires de l'Armée de Condé ("Constance" 1797, 8vo), verses composed by an aristocratic military literary society.

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THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD


Foucqué's Le Vie…de nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ (Paris 1574, 8vo), a life of Christ in over fifteen thousand lines of vernacular heroic verse, in its original vellum wrapper.


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THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY


Instruction sur l'Histoire des Empereurs d'Occident, depuis Charlemagne, jusqu'a Leopold I (Paris 1693, 12mo), a Q&A history of the Holy Roman Emperors through Leopold I, in contemporary calf.


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LAST SIGHTED IN 1799


Breviarium insignis ecclesie Leodiensis (Paris 1504, 16mo), a beautiful and mysterious diminutive devotional for the densely populated diocese of Liège. Printed in red and black throughout in small type.


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