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Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
Howard, Rupert.Date: [1930?]
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Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.
Macknik, Stephen L.Date: 2010
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Die natürliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb ; mit Kupfern.
Wiegleb, Johann Christian, 1732-1800.Date: 1782-1786
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Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.
Reference: 886i
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Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.
Reference: 887i
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La magie blanche dévoilée ou explication des tours surprennants. Qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale et de la province, avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joueurs d'échecs. &c. &c / Par m. Decremps.
Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826.Date: 1784
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The life and mysteries of the celebrated Dr. "Q."
Alexander, C.Date: ©1946
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Legerdemain: or, natural and artificial conclusions and hocus-pocus improved / [Anon].
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: [1716?]
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Old conjuring books : a bibliographical and historical study with a supplementary check-list / Trevor H. Hall.
Hall, Trevor H.Date: 1972
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Note on a portrait of Floram Marchand the water spouter. Manuscript.
Reference: 897i
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A rich cabinet with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : being receits and conceits of severall natures and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions : as also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water, and fire-works of service for sea and shore : whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks / collected by J.W.
White, John, -1671.Date: 1668
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Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Line engraving.
Reference: 888i
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The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.
Peedle, Thomas, active 1650.Date: [1858?]Reference: 896i
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Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
Reference: 33416i
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Some printers & publishers of conjuring books and other ephemera, 1800-1850 / by Trevor H. Hall and Percy H. Muir.
Hall, Trevor H.Date: 1976
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Nouveau manuel complet des sorciers, ou la magie blanche, dévoilée par les découvertes de la chimie, de la physique et de la mécanique, contenant un grand nombre de tours dus à l'électricité, au calorique, à la lumière, à l'air, aux nombres, aux cartes, à l'escamotage, etc. Ainsi que les scènes de ventriloquie exécutées et communiquées par M. Conte [i.e. Comte] ... / précédé d'une notice historique sur les sciences occultes, par M. Julia de Fontenelle.
Julia de Fontenelle, Jean Sebastian Eugène, 1790-1842.Date: 1837
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Natürliches Zauber-Buch oder neueröfneter Spielplatz rarer Künste, [Bd. I] erster[-zwanzigster] Theil im welchem nicht allein alle Taschenspieler, und andere curiöse mathematische und physicalische Künste sondern auch die gebräuchlichen Karten-Würfel-Billard-Damen und andere Spiele aufs genaueste beschrieben mit vielen Figuren erläutert werden / [Simon Witgeest].
Witgeest, Simon, active 1682.Date: 1781
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Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1885?])Reference: 38989i
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Les petites aventures de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante. Ouvrage contenant autant de tours ingénieux que de leçons utiles, avec quelques petits portraits à la manière noire / Par l'auteur de la Magie blanche [H. Decremps] 18 figures.
Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826.Date: 1793
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Supplément à la Magie blanche dévoilée ... Contenant l'explication de plusieurs tours nouveauz / Par Mr. Decremps.
Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826.Date: 1785
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A bibliography of books on conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850 / by Trevor H.Hall.
Hall, Trevor H.Date: 1957
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Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
Reference: 33413i
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Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
Reference: 889i

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Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

Die natürliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb ; mit Kupfern.

Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.

Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.

La magie blanche dévoilée ou explication des tours surprennants. Qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale et de la province, avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joueurs d'échecs. &c. &c / Par m. Decremps.

The life and mysteries of the celebrated Dr. "Q."

Legerdemain: or, natural and artificial conclusions and hocus-pocus improved / [Anon].

Old conjuring books : a bibliographical and historical study with a supplementary check-list / Trevor H. Hall.

Note on a portrait of Floram Marchand the water spouter. Manuscript.

Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Line engraving.

The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.

Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.

Some printers & publishers of conjuring books and other ephemera, 1800-1850 / by Trevor H. Hall and Percy H. Muir.

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

Les petites aventures de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante. Ouvrage contenant autant de tours ingénieux que de leçons utiles, avec quelques petits portraits à la manière noire / Par l'auteur de la Magie blanche [H. Decremps] 18 figures.

Supplément à la Magie blanche dévoilée ... Contenant l'explication de plusieurs tours nouveauz / Par Mr. Decremps.

A bibliography of books on conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850 / by Trevor H.Hall.

Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.

Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.