THE MAGIC TRICKS,

CONJURING & ILLUSION

COLLECTION

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 220 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 221 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 (1920)

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 (1923)

Annemann's mental bargain effects (1921)

Annemann's Mental Mysteries (1920)

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 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 (1914)

Cigarette Magic and Manipulation (1921)

Collins' Card Conceits (1923)

Compleat System of Magick or The History of The Black Art (1872)

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)

Dwellers on the threshold, or, Magic and magicians (1864)

Easy Magic (1913)

Fifty Years in the Magic Circle (1871)

Fooling Millions (1923)

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 (1920)

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)

Letters on natural magic (1883)

Linking Ring Manipulation (1923)

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 (1912)

Magical Suggestions (1921)

Magician's Tricks (1911)

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)

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 (1922)

Mysterious Tricks (1921)

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 (1921)

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 (1920)

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 (1921)

Revelations Devoted to the Interest of the Magician (1898)

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 (1923)

Si Stedbbins card tricks and the way they are performed (1902)

Side-Show and Animal Tricks (1913)

Silk Creations (1911)

Six Card Creations (1922)

Sixteen Master Card Mysteries (1921)

Sleight of Hand (probably the single most complete book ever written on magic) (1911)

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 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 (1912)

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 (1915)

Thirty One Man Mind Reading (1921)

Thirty-seven effective after dinner tricks and how to perform them (1906)

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 the Masters (1922)

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 (1912)

Witchcraft or The art of fortune-telling unveiled (1805)

 

 

The most comprehensive magic collection available on ebay today! An absolute must for anyone with an interest in learning magic tricks and the history of illusion – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

 

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