THE MAGIC, ILLUSION & CONJURING COLLECTION ~~~~~~~~ A
truly unique and wonderful collection of over 170 rare, out-of-print books,
manuals and guides compiled together for the first time on DVD DATA DISC
covering all aspects of THE
ANCIENT ART OF MAGIC, ILLUSION & CONJURING! Ideal
for professional magicians and amateurs or beginners alike, this stunning
collection is a real treasure trove of research material showing you how to
perform tricks and illusions that have been enjoyed for hundreds of years. Topics
covered include magic with coins, cards, stage illusions, conjuring, hundreds
of secrets exposed, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, mind reading, animal tricks
and so much more. This really is the most comprehensive collection of rare
books on magic on eBay. Many are beautifully illustrated showing exactly how a
trick or illusion performed. Many of these vintage books date back to the 1800s
and early 1900s and all of their content is just as impressive today as it was
then. The full list of titles below speaks for itself! This
superb compilation of 175 vintage books on DVD data disc provides literally
1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the
reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever
in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet,
smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select
pages. This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections,
and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
50 Simple
Card Tricks (1930) 131 Magic
Tricks for Amateurs A history of
magic and experimental science Vol. 1 (1923) A history of
magic and experimental science Vol. 2 (1923) A History of
the Art of Magic (1887) A magician in
many lands (1911) A magician's
tour, up and down and round about the earth - being the life and adventures of
the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (1890) A Modern
Handkerchief Act (1914) Advanced
Magic (1919) After Dinner
Tricks (1921) An history of
magic, witchcraft, and animal magnetism Vol. 1 (1851) An history of
magic, witchcraft, and animal magnetism Vol. 2 (1851) Annemann's
complete one man mental and psychic routine (1935) Annemann's
mental bargain effects (1935) Annemann's
Mental Mysteries (1929) Around the
world with a magician and a juggler (1891) Bargain Magic
(1921) Book of One
Hundred and Fifty Parlor Tricks and Games (1905) Bulletin of
Latest Sleights and Tricks (1914) Cagliostro -
the splendour and misery of a master of magic (1910) Card And Ball
Tricks With Patter (1916) Card Fan
Productions (1941) Card Tricks -
Conjuring With Cards (1900) Card Tricks
And The Way They Are Performed Card-sharpers
- Their Tricks Exposed or The Art of Always Winning (1891) Celestial
Agent (1944) Cigarette
Magic and Manipulation (1929) Collins' Card
Conceits (1925) Compleat
System of Magick or The History of The Black Art Complete
hypnotism, mesmerism, mind-reading and spiritualism how to hypnotize, being an exhaustive and
practical system of method, application and use (1903) Confidences
de Robert-Houdin - une vie d'artiste, théâtre et prestidigitation (1861) Conjuring For
Amateurs - A Practical Treatise On How to Perform Modern Tricks (1901) Conjuring
Patter (1907) Conjuring
Tricks With Coins, Watches, Rings and Handkerchiefs (1900) Der kleine
Zauberer, oder, Anweisung zu leichten und belustigenden Kunststücken aus der
natürlichen Magie (1802) Die Magie des
XIX. Jahrhunderts als Kunst und als Geheimwissenschaft (1896) Different
Magic (Unknown date) Dwellers on
the threshold, or, Magic and magicians (1864) Easy Magic
(1913) Fifty Years
in the Magic Circle
(1871) Fooling
Millions (1928) Grant's super
magical secrets (1900) Great East
Indian Rope trick (1914) Herrmann's
Wizards' Manual -A Practical Treatise on Coin Tricks (1916) Hindu Magic -
An Expose of the Tricks of the Yogis and Fakirs of India (1913) History Of
Magic And Experimental Science (1923) History of
Magic and Magicians (1895) Houdini's
Paper Magic (1922) How To Become
a Magician (1882) How to
Entertain a Social Party (1875) How to Read
People's Minds (1905) Illustrated
descriptive price-list of magical apparatus and illusions (1884) Impromptu
Magic with Patter (1930) In the Magic Circle (1905) Indian
conjuring (1922) Kirbye's
original second-sight mystery and pretended clairvoyance exposed (1855) La Vellma's
Vaudeville Budget for Magicians, Mind Readers and Ventriloquists (1921) Later Magic
(1904) Latest Magic
- Original Conjuring Tricks (1918) Latter Day
Tricks (1896) Leaves From
Conjurers' Scrap Books - Modern Magicians and Their Works (1971) Letters on
natural magic (1883) Linking Ring
Manipulation (1930) Lives of the
necromancers or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who
have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the
exercise of magical power (1834) Lorento's
Wizards' Guide - Magic Made Easy (1878) Magic - Stage
Illusions and Scientific Diversions
Including Trick Photography (1897) Magic - the
Magazine of Wonder Vol. 1 (1910) Magic (1903) Magic and
fetishism (1906) Magic for the
Forces (1918) Magic No
Mystery - Conjuring Tricks with Cards, Balls and Dice, Magic Writing and
Performing Animals ([1876]) Magic Up to
Date - Shaw's Magical Instructor (1896) Magic, Black
and White; Charms and Counter Charms (1910) Magic,
pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena (1855) Magic, White
and Black, Or the Science of Finite and Infinite Life (1900) Magic; in
which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions
(1903) Magical
revelations, a book of exceptional magic (19--) Magical
Suggestions (1921) Magician's
Tricks Malay magic
(1900) Master
Sleights With Billiard Balls (1914) Memoirs of
Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (1860) Mental magic,
a rationale of thought reading (1884) Milk Pitcher
Magic (1946) Mind reading
(1875) Mind-power -
the secret of mental magic (1912) Miscellaneous
Tricks With Handkerchiefs Including a
Fifteen Minute Act With Silks (1921) Modern Magic
- A Practical Treatise On The Art of Conjuring. (1904) More Magic of
the Hands (1938) Mysterious
Tricks (1930) Mysto Magic
(1919) Natural
magick (1658) New and
Original Magic For the Professional Artist and The Amateur (1922) New Era Card
Tricks (1897) New Ideas in
Magic Illusions & Spiritualistic Effects (1902) On the Other
Side of the Footlights - An Expose of Magic Routines (1922) Original
Creation for Magicians Hitherto Kept Up His Sleeve (c1920) Our Magic,
The Art in Magic, The Theory of Magic, The Practice of Magic (1911) Pack a Deck
(1939) Peerless
prestidigitation, being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the
fascinating art of modern magic (1910) Practical
Conjuring (1911) Prestidigitation
(1870) Prof. T. C. Cole's
jr. Complete mail course in hypnotism; twenty-five illustrated lessons (1900) Radio-Vision
The New Mind Reading Code (1940) Recollections
of Robert Houdin, Clockmaker, Electrician, Conjuror (1898) Revelations -
mental telepathy, thought transference, mind reading, second sight, hypnotism
etc., etc., how it is done, and how to do it (1925) Revelations
Devoted to the Interest of the Magician (Date Unknown) Riddles and
drawing-room magic (1907) Sealed
Mysteries (1911) Second sight
explained; a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight (1880) Second Sight
Secrets and Mechanical Magic (1905) Secrets of
The Great Mysteries Now Revealed For The First Time (1909) Sharps and
flats (1894) Shhh It's A
Secret (1934) Si Stedbbins
card tricks and the way they are performed (19--) Side-Show and
Animal Tricks (1913) Silk
Creations (1931) Six Card
Creations (1929) Sixteen
Master Card Mysteries (1928) Sleight of
Hand (probably the single most complete book ever written on magic) Sleights -
Incidental Effects, Tricks, Sleights, Moves And Passes (1914) Some
Magicians I Have Met (1905) Some Modern
Conjuring - A Series of Original Experiments in The Magic Art (1909) Spirit Slate
Writing and Kindred Phenomena (1898) Stage
Illusions (1912) Stories of
the magicians (1887) Telepathy
With Cards (1910) The
adventurous life of a versatile artist, Houdini (1922) The Amateur
Magician (1880) The Art Of
Magic (1909) The art of
projecting. A manual of experimentation in physics, chemistry, and natural
history with the porte lumiere and magic lantern (1888) The Art of
the Stage (1914) The Black Art
- Magic Made Easy (1869) The Black Art
Fully Exposed and Laid Bare (1875) The Boy
Magician - A Large Number of the Latest and Best Tricks (1922) The Burglar -
Card Tricks (1921) The Challenge
Handcuff Act (1916) The Crest
Magician (1907) The history
of magic - including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites
and its mysteries (1922) The history
of magic Vol. 1 (1854) The history
of magic Vol. 2 (1854) The Magic Art
(1920) The Magical
Mail The
Magician's Own Book - The Whole Art of Conjuring (1862) The mysteries
of astrology, and the wonders of magic (1854) The new black
magic and the truth about the ouija-board (1919) The occult
sciences - a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment; embracing an
account of magical practices; of secret sciences in connection with magic
(1891) The occult
sciences - The philosophy of magic, prodigies and apparent miracles Vol. 1
(1846) The occult
sciences - The philosophy of magic, prodigies and apparent miracles Vol. 2
(1846) The Old and
The New Magic (1906) The place of
magic in the intellectual history of Europe
(1905) The play
room; or, In-door games for boys and girls ... parlor magic, tricks with cards,
scientific recreations and puzzles (19--) The Practical
Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide (1877) The Real
Secret of the Stage Second Sight Act (1916) The Secrets
of Ancient and Modern Magic; (1880) The Secrets
of Stage Conjuring (1881) The Triple
Climax (1921) The True Secret
of Mind Reading as Performed by the Zancigs (1911) The unmasking
of Robert-Houdin (1908) Thimble Magic
(1936) Thirty One
Man Mind Reading (1935) Thirty-seven
effective after dinner tricks and how to perform them (19--) Thought-reading
exposed how to become a thought-reader (1914) Thurston's
Easy Pocket Tricks The A-B-C of Magic (1915) Tricks and
Magic Made Easy (1919) Tricks in
Magic (1895) Tricks of a
Trouper (1946) Tricks of the
Masters (1942) Trix and
Chatter (1921) Twentieth
Century Magic and the Construction of Modern Magical Apparatus (1898) Vaudeville
mind reading and kindred phenomena (1920) Ventriloquism
Made Easy, An Exposure of Magic and The Second Sight Mystery (1860) Wehman Bros.'
new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games (1905) White magic
(19--) Witchcraft or
The art of fortune-telling unveiled (1805) The most
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