Les blagues de l'univers
By: par P.-T. Barnum
Publisher: Achille Faure
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Impostors and imposture
Work titles: Humbugs of the world
Notes: Translation of: The humbugs of the world.

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Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex libris C. de Mandre".

Autograph on verso of front flyleaf: "Jules Bobin".

Bound in after the title page is a two-page manuscript letter from Barnum to the ventriloquist Alexandre Vattemare, dated July 16th 1858.

Bound in quarter red sheepskin and red marbled paper boards; coat of arms stamped on cover in gilt; spine stamped in gilt; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers.