The Boy's Own Conjuring Book: Being a Complete Hand-book of Parlour Magic; And Containing Over One Thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magentical, 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. Illustrated With Nearly Two Hundred Engravings. Intended As A Source Of Amusement For One Thousand And One Evenings. This Scarce title, and unique occult book, covers a wide variety of tricks designed for entertainment, including sleights of hand, card tricks, and ingenious puzzles. The book is illustrated with over 200 engravings. Published Dick and Fitzgerald, New York, 1860. Publisher’s original decorative green boards, with green titles on upper board, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Book Dimensions: 17 x 11 cm and Number of Pages: 384 Condition: External covers with age related wear to corners and edges, and with some repairs to right edge of spine cloth. Binding tight and secure with the hinges and joints intact. Pages with light toning and some foxing. Some marks with pencil to first and last free endpaper pages. Slight closed tears to the left margin of the title page, and couple more pages. Text is clear ad illustrations in good condition (Please see pictures). *************************************************************************** Orders from outside the UK, PARTICULARLY WITHIN EUROPE, may be subject to import duties and taxes which are applied when the delivery reaches your country. Please note that we have no control over these charges and we cannot predict their amount. • The customer is responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order. ***************************************************************************