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ROBERT-HOUDIN. Confidences and revelations. Comment on devient sorcier. Paris, Delahays,1868, in-8, half-rel. green cloth. With detached frontispiece portrait. Some foxing.

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ROBERT-HOUDIN. Confidences and revelations. Comment on devient sorcier. Paris, Delahays,1868, in-8, half-rel. green cloth. With detached frontispiece portrait. Some foxing.

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