Set Reminder2025-10-12 12:00:002025-10-12 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Artifacts of Play https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/artifacts-of-play-21873 Rare and collectible playing cards, vintage and modern puzzles, antique games and gambling items, and curiosities alike will all cross the block in this collaboration between Potter & Potter and Art of Play.
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ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean Eugene (trans. Professor Hoffmann).?Card-Sharping Exposed.?London: George Routledge, [n.d., not before 1887]. Navy cloth decoratively stamped black, red, and gilt. Publisher's patterned endsheets. Illustrated. 8vo. Bookplate of Clifford Townsend. 316 + 2 leaves ads (lists sixth edition of?Modern Magic). Firm and attractive with bright stamping. Very attractive, with binding only slightly canted. A handsome Victorian publication exposing the methods of crooked gamblers.