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.
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Juvenile
Description
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Traditions: Ritual magic and grimoires
Subjects: Magic tricks, Juvenile literature, Amusements
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “Magic” in the edition subtitle.
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- “Magic”· in subtitle
- “Magic”· in subject
- “Magic”· in edition subtitle
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Editions
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. Open Library record | 1860 | Dick and Fitzgerald | English | — | No ebook | |
being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, containing an endless variety of optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, etc., etc., etc. Open Library record | 1859 | Dick and Fitzgerald | English | — | No ebook |
Subjects
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Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
- Open Library work
- Open Library work (alias)
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- Open LibraryOL23274974W (opens in a new tab)
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- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL23274948W
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