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MAGIC: The Magician's Own Book or the Whole Art o

MAGIC: The Magician's Own Book or the Whole Art of Conjuring, full title being The Magician's Own Book, or the Whole Art of Conjuring. Being a Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, and Containing Over One Thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments, Amusing Transmutations, Astonishing Sleight and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles, Together with all the Most Noted Tricks of Modern Performers. The Whole Illustrated with Over 500 Wood Cuts, and Intended as a Source of Amusement for One Thousand and One Evenings., anonymous, 1866, New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 12mo in embossed and gilt illustrated cloth boards, 362pp.