"... Decremps wrote and published a series of books purportedly to expose all the tricks of [Giuseppe] Pinetti. The first book, La Magie Blanche, appeared in Paris while Pinetti was still playing there in 1784. The first book was followed by Supplement a la Magie Blanche Devoilee, Testament de Jerome Sharp, Codicille de Jerome Sharp, and others. ... they did have a devastating effect on Pinetti as well as on other practitioners of the mystic art, despite the fact that Decremp's explanations were largely guesswork. ..." D. Price. Magic, 1985, p. 40 ff.

"Recueil de tours d'adresse, de cartes et d'escamotage, de subtilités ingénieuses, de récréations mathématiques, d'expériences tirées de la physique et de la chimie, etc., etc."

LC copy has inscriptions: W.E. Robinson.