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Lot 227
Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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[Sociology] Mackay, Charles Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
London: Richard Bentley, 1841. In three volumes. 8vo. Illustrated with portrait frontispieces in each volume; two portrait plates (Paracelsus and Dr. Dee) in Vol. III. (vi), 400; (iv), 406; (iv), 404 pp. Half-title not present in Vol. I, as usual, half-titles present in Vols. II and III, also as usual; no publisher's advertisements. Three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, damage to rear board of third volume presumably from whence stuck to another book; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; matching marbled endpapers; tidemark and wrinkling to text in rear of third volume.