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McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)

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  • Cover of: The Whole art of legerdemain, or, Hocus pocus laid open and explained by those renowned masters Sena Sama, Hamed Ben-Ali, and all the celebrated and mysterious professors in the art of natural magic: with full instructions how to perform the various tricks on cards, dice, birds, eggs, rings, &c. as practised before their sublime majesties, the Emperor and Empress of China, the crowned heads of Europe, and the president and people of the United States.

    First published in 1830 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Parlour magic: a manual of amusing experiments, transmutations, sleights and subtleties, legerdemain, &c., for the instruction and amusement of youth.

    First published in 1863 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Spirit mysteries exposed: being a full and plain explanation of the wonderful feats of the Davenport brothers and other mediums : with a history of spirit rapping and explanation of the means by which its manifestations are produced, etc.
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    First published in 1890 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The crest magician
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    First published in 1907 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The complete book of the occult and fortune telling

    First published in 1945 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The secrets of clairvoyance revealed: containing full instructions and explanations for acquiring a knowledge of the popularly recognized sciences of hypnotism, mesmerism and psychology

    First published in 1900 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Young man's book of amusement: containing the most interesting and instructive experiments in various branches of science, to which is added all the popular tricks and changes in cards, and the art of making fire works.

    First published in 1840 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Rochester knockings!: Discovery and explanation of the source of the phenomena generally known as the Rochester knockings ...
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    First published in 1851 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Humbug: a look at some popular impositions.
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    First published in 1859 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hindoo superstitions.

    First published in 1845 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Confessions of a medium.
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    First published in 1882 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Adventurous life of a versatile artist: Houdini.
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    First published in 1922 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Lorento's wizards' guide, or, Magic made easy
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    First published in 1878 — 1 edition
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Subjects

Magic tricks, Tricks, Scientific recreations, Juvenile literature, Biography, Occultism, Clairvoyance, Experiments, Hypnotism, Science, Spiritualism, Card tricks, Fireworks, Fortune-telling, Handbooks, manuals, Mediums, Mesmerism, Amusements, Early works to 1800, Magicians, Animal training, Conduct of life, English wit and humor, Medieval Science, Occultists

Places

England, United States, France

People

Harry Houdini (1874-1926), Roger Bacon (1214?-1294), Thomas Bungay (active 1290), Catherine Fox Jencken (1836-1892), El-Wardo De Willis, Ira Erastus Davenport (1839-1911), John Metcalf (1717-1810), Margaret Fox (1833-1893), Russell the Magician, Will Goldston (1877-1948), William Henry Davenport (1841-1877)

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ID Numbers

  • OLID: OL6042756A

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