Early Magic Books

List of some Early Magic Books

• A Brief and Pleasaunt Treatise, entituled, natural and artificial conclusions (1581) Thomas Hill
• The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot (1584)
• Clever and Pleasant Inventions (1584) - J. Prevost (In French in 1584, translated to English in 1998).
• Mathematical Recreations (1633) - Van Etten
• Hocus Pocus Junior The Anatomie Of Of Legerdemain (1634)
• The Mysteryes of Nature and Art (fourth edition, 1654) - Bate
• A Candle in the Dark (1655) - Ady
• Magia natvralis libri viginti or Natural Magick (English 1658 and 1669) - John Baptista Porta
• Récréations mathématiques et physiques by Jacques Ozanam (1693)
• Round About Our Coal Fire: or, Christmas Entertainmolts (circa 1700)
• Hocus Pocus: or, A Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities (circa 1700) - White
• Arts Improvement:or, Choice Experiments (1703) - Snow
• Art's Treasury - (?) White
• Recreations Mathematical and Physical (1708) Jacques Ozanam (translation of 1693 book?)
• Rareties and Curious Inventions (circa 1710)
• The Old Hocus Pocus (circa 1710)
• Legerdemain: or, Natural and Artificial Conclusions and Hocus Pocus Improved (1710) Thomas Hill's work rereleased (rewritten?)
• The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious (1721) - Richard Neve
• Hocus Pocus: or, The Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities Broke Open (1721) - Richard Neve
• The Whole Art of Legerdemain (1722) - Dean
• Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments (1784) - Pinetti
• Rational Recreations (1774) - Hooper
• Breslaw's Last Legacy (1784)
• Natural Magic: or Physical Amusernents Revealed (1785) - Astley
• The Conjurer Unmasked (1785 and 1788) - Denton
• The Conjurer's Repository (1795)
• Hocus Pocus, or, The Art of Conjuration (1795)
• The Conjurer Unmasked, or the Magical Mirror (1795)
• Cabinet of Knowledge (1796 ) - Gale
• An Evening's Amusement, The Merry Thought; An Excellent and Right-Merry Collection of Capital Tricks (circa 1800)
• The Expositor or Many Mysteries Unravelled (1805) - William Frederick Pinchbeck
• The New Art of Hocus Pocus Revived (1808)
• The Petit Sorcerer, or, The Conjurer Unmasked (1808)
• The London Conjurer (1812)
• Hocus Pocus, or, the New and Complete Art of Conjuring (circa 1820)
• The Modern Conjuror, or, Complete Guide to Sleight of Hand (1822)
• Art of Conjuring Made Easy (1822)
• The Universal Conjurer (1829)
• The Whole Art of Legerdemain (1829).
• The Juggler's Oracle, or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open (circa 1830)
• Fireside Amusements (Edinburgh, 1850).
• Magical Recreations, or The Whole Art of Legerdernaiiz; Explained and Made Easy for all capacities (Bristol, circa 1850)
• Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee or New White Magic Explained and Complete Course of Prestigitation (1854) - J.N. Ponsin
• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin (1859 - first U.S. Edition) - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (Translated to English from French).
• Modern Magic (1876) - Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis)
• Les Secrets de la Prestidigitation et de la Magie, which is Secrets Of Conjuring And Magic (1877) - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
• Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs, (1877)
• Conjuror Dick (1885) - Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis)
• 40 Years A Gambler On The Mississippi (1887) - George Devol
• More Magic (1890) - Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis)
• Magical Experiments (1892) - Arthur Good (Translated to English from French)
• Sharps And Flats (1894) John Neville Maskelyne
• The Modern Wizard (1896) - A. Roterberg
• Latter Day Tricks (1896) - A. Roterberg
• New Era Card Tricks (1897) - A. Roterberg
• 20 Years a Fakir (1899) - S. James Weldon
• Modern Coin Manipulation (1900?) T. Nelson Downs
• The Art of Modern Conjuring (?) - Anonymous
• The Magician's Handbook (1901) - Selbit
• Magic (1901) - Ellis Stanyon
• The Modern Conjuror and Drawing Room Entertainer (1902) - C. Lang Neil
• Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (1902) - Later published as The Expert At The Card Table.
• Card Tricks and how to do them (1902) - A. Roterberg
• Modern Magicians Hand Book (1902) - William J. Hilliar