The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring / Being a complete hand-book of parlor 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, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

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PREFACE.

INDEX.

THE YOUNG CONJUROR.

TRICKS WITH CARDS.

THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.

AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM.

EXPERIMENTS IN GALVANISM.

EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM.

THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AEROSTATICS.

THE MAGIC OF OPTICS AND OPTICAL AMUSEMENTS. "'Seeing is

TRICKS IN MECHANICS.

TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS.

TRICKS IN ACOUSTICS.

THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS

TRICKS IN GEOMETRY.

PRACTICAL PARADOXES AND PUZZLES. A puzzle is not solved,

ANSWERS TO PRACTICAL PUZZLES.

THE MAGIC OF ART.

SECRET WRITING.

THE MAGIC OF STRENGTH.

MISCELLANEOUS

INQUIRE WITHIN

The Reason Why: Natural History.

The Reason Why: GENERAL SCIENCE.

Live and Learn;

The Secret Out; OR, 1,000 TRICKS WITH CARDS AND OTHER RECREATIONS.

The Magician's Own Book OR, THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING .

A Book of Never-Ending Entertainment.

THE SOCIABLE; OR, One Thousand and One Home Amusements.

The Perfect Gentleman;

Art of Dancing without a Master;

SONGS OF IRELAND.

DICK and FITZGERALD'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

The Harp of a Thousand Strings

THE BOOK OF One Thousand Comical Stories

Mrs. Partington's Carpet Bag of Fun.


THE
MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK,
OR THE
WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.

BEING A

COMPLETE HAND-BOOK OF PARLOR 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, TOGETHER WITH
ALL THE MOST NOTED TRICKS OF MODERN PERFORMERS.
THE WHOLE

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 500 WOOD CUTS,

AND INTENDED AS A SOURCE OF AMUSEMENT FOR

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE EVENINGS.

NEW YORK:
DICK & FITZGERALD, 18 ANN STREET.
1862.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

DICK & FITZGERALD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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