Anonymous - Conjuring And Magic - 1860

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).


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