An edition of The Boy's own conjuring book (1860)

The Boy's own conjuring book

being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.

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An edition of The Boy's own conjuring book (1860)

The Boy's own conjuring book

being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.

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Publisher
Dick and Fitzgerald
Language
English
Pages
384

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Subjects

Magic tricks, Juvenile literature, Amusements
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The Boy's own conjuring book: being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.
1860, Dick and Fitzgerald
in English
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Edition Notes

BLC, v. 40, p. 83
NUC pre-1956 (suppl.), NSB 0100253
Cover title: Conjuring and magic : tricks, puzzles, magical experiments, &c., &c.
On spine: Boys own conjuring book : 200 engravings.
"Illustrated with nearly two hundred engravings."
Bound in red cloth. Plate is unsigned and bordered in red.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.

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New York
Other Titles
Conjuring and magic., Tricks, puzzles, magical experiments, &c., &c.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
793.8
Library of Congress
GV1548 .B69 1860

The Physical Object

Pagination
384 p., [1] leaf of plates :
Number of pages
384

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1582281M
LCCN
91106488
Library Thing
4689491

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