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[CURIOSA] DECREMPS, [HENRI] la magie blanche (2 volumes)

La Magie Blanche dévoilée, ou explication… Paris: Lesclapart, 1788. Second edition. 8vo. With a frontispiece portrait, two engraved plates, ink ownership on the recto of the frontispiece. Full contemporary mottled sheep. Scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed, covers starting to warp; offsetting on title-page, occasional light foxing to text, some staining in margins at rear. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on title-page. Supplément a La Magie Blanche dévoilée... Paris: Lesclapart, 1788. First edition. 8vo. With two folding tables at rear, 29 woodcuts within text, with an ink ownership and manuscript in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. Full contemporary mottled sheep. Scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed, covers starting to warp; some worming in gutters of pp. 99-150, but not affecting text. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on title-page.

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