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| gbooks = <!-- google books ID --> ...book production and illustration, coupled with the disappointing response by intending purchasers, prevented the work being issued as originally intende

[[Professor Hoffmann]] describes a "Japanese Inexhaustible Box" in his book [[Modern Magic]], bu == Books ==

...men performing the cups and balls from the tomb at Beni Hasan is believed by most experts to be a game of unknown type. Note: Since there is no indicati ...s such as the cups and balls and indeed more modern ideas such as cheating by short changing via sleights with coins and other small objects.

<!-- To be categorized by months / organized at the end of the year --> * First annual Magic-Con, organized by Dan and Dave Buck with Syd Segal, will take place March 18-21 2010 in San D

*[[J. B. Bobo]], author of 4 magic books, is born, Feb 11 *[[Henry Hay]], author of many classic books on magic for beginners, is born ''June Barrows Mussey'', Mar 30

...r idea of the ground covered, and then to evaluate its probable usefulness by applying his knowledge as a close student of magical literature and as a pr * [[Miracle Methods No. 1 - The Stripper Deck]] by [[Jean Hugard]] and [[Fred Braue]]

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| gbooks = <!-- google books ID --> Translated as [[Drawing Room Conjuring]] by [[Professor Hoffmann]] in 1887.

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| author = Professor Hoffmann ...''A Complete Manual of Card Conjuring'', is a book written by [[Professor Hoffmann]] dedicated to only card magic. It is much more complete than the card sect

| editor = Professor Hoffmann ...t-Houdin]]'s ''[[Magie et physique amusante]]'', translated by [[Professor Hoffmann]].

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...that it will operate as a spring to the industry of performers in that art by compelling them to some new inventions to deceive and amuse us." ...Physics, or Explanation of His Tricks."<ref> CHEVALIER PINETTI—CONJURER BY HENRY RIDGELY EVANS, Sphinx, June 1902</ref>

...85, contains many items from Professor Hoffmann's [[Modern Magic]] (1876), by Frank Lind using the pseudonym of Prof. Henri Garenne. {{Books}}

'''Folding Coin''' is a [[Gaff]] sold by most magic shops. ...6, page 203) in relation with a fake wand to produce a coin by [[Professor Hoffmann]] and it was further explained in his next book, [[More Magic]] (1890, page

...c Series''' was a series of books edited by [[Paul Fleming]] and published by the Fleming Book Company reprinting some of the classics of magic. ...about this project.<ref>Stanley Collins Conjurer Collector and Iconoclast by Edwin A. Dawes (2001)</ref>

...disaster. Panicked by stage fright, he talked too fast and in a monotone. By the time the curtain fell, he had no idea what he was saying or doing ...e excited to rebel against French colonialists by false miracles performed by their religious leaders. In 1856, Napoleon III's Second French Empire sent

...flowers and flags.<ref>http://www.themagicdetective.com/2011/09/magic-used-by-civil-war-magicians.html</ref> ...ous groups. By 1853 the movement had reached San Francisco and London, and by the start of the Civil War in 1860 it was worldwide.

Sawyer put out 17 or so issues of[[The Hoffmann Collector]] and a more general periodical for collectors called [[Aphelion * VICTORIAN AGE CONJURING BOOKS (1988)

<!-- This is a template used by "create book tool" '''''Clever Close-up Magic''''' is a [[2003]] book by [[Bob Longe]].