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Hocus pocus, or, The new and complete art of conjuring, explained in an easy and comprehensive manner

containing the whole theory of the slight of hand, in cards, money, and all the various tricks, in the science of legerdemain : also, amusing secrets & experiments, used and practised in the present age, and performed by the most popular professors of deception, including those of Mr. Gyngell, the Indian and French jugglers, &c. &c. &c. : the whole wrote and explained in so clear a manner, by a celebrated professor, as to be easily understood.

by McManus-Young Collection

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Ritual magic and grimoires

Subjects: Magic tricks, Card tricks

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  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Magic”· in subject

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containing the whole theory of the slight of hand, in cards, money, and all the various tricks, in the science of legerdemain : also, amusing secrets & experiments, used and practised in the present age, and performed by the most popular professors of deception, including those of Mr. Gyngell, the Indian and French jugglers, &c. &c. &c. : the whole wrote and explained in so clear a manner, by a celebrated professor, as to be easily understood.

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1820J. BaileyEnglish—No ebook

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