[Bullock (William)] A Companion to Mr. Bullock's Museum, Containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Ten Thousand Natural & Foreign Curiosities..., tenth edition, wood-engraved frontispiece slightly trimmed at head, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title, some light foxing and surface soiling, modern cloth, original printed label laid down to upper cover, for the Proprietor by Henry Reynell, 1811; A Companion to the London Museum, and Pantherion...Now Open for Public Inspection in The Egyptian Temple, Piccadilly, seventeenth edition, lacking frontispiece, book-label of the Egyptian Hall Museum of Nashville, few leaves just starting to work loose, some spotting, upper hinge cracked, 20th century cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, for the Proprietor by Whittingham and Rowland, 1816, 8vo (2)

⁂ Bullock's museum opened at 22 Piccadilly in 1809 and the newly built Piccadilly Egyptian Hall in 1812, displaying his immense collection of some 32,000 artifacts, most natural history related. The Egyptian Hall went on to be known as England's "Home of Mystery" and a showplace for magicians.

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