BOY'S OWN CONJURING BOOK - 1860 - PARLOR MAGIC TRICKS ILLUSIONS GAMES ALCHEMY stamp and number on title

stamp and number on title page

Author: Henry Cornelius Agrippa

The two-volume set examines the history of magic

special limited edition of "Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1903

Philadelphia (1886)

BOY'S OWN CONJURING BOOK - 1860 - PARLOR MAGIC TRICKS ILLUSIONS GAMES ALCHEMY stamp and number on titleBook Details + Condition: Dick and Fitzgerald (New York, NY). Early edition, circa 1860 (ND provided). Hardcover. 384 pages; illustrated throughout with 200 engravings. Subtitled, "Being a complete hand book of parlour magic; and containing over 1000 optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetically, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and