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Early Magic Books
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
List of some early books containing magic related material:
- De viribus quantitatis (On The Powers Of Numbers), Luca Pacioli (in Italian between 1496 and 1508, limited publication by Conjuring Arts Research Center)
- 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) by Jean Prévost (In French in 1584, translated to English in 1998).
- The Art of Juggling or Legerdemaine (1612)
- Mathematical Recreations (1633) - Henry Van Etten
- Hocus Pocus Junior The Anatomie 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 (1694)
- Round About Our Coal Fire: or, Christmas Entertainments (circa 1700)
- Hocus Pocus: or, A Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities (circa 1700) - White
- Arts Improvement:or, Choice Experiments (1703) - Snow
- Art's Treasury of rarities and curious inventions (1700s) - John White
- Recreations Mathematical and Physical (1708) Jacques Ozanam (translation of 1694 book)
- The Old Hocus Pocus (circa 1710)
- Legerdemain: or, Natural and Artificial Conclusions and Hocus Pocus Improved (1710)
- The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious (1716) - Richard Neve
- Hocus Pocus: or, The Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities Broke Open (1721) - Richard Neve
- The Whole Art of Legerdemain (1722) - Dean
- Rational Recreations (1774) - Dr. W. Hooper
- Physical Amusements and Diverting Experiments (1784) - Pinetti
- 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) - Anonymous
- 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 Juggler's Oracle, or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open (1826)
- The Universal Conjurer (1829)
- The Whole Art of Legerdemain (1829).
- Fireside Amusements (Edinburgh, 1850).
- Magical Recreations, or The Whole Art of Legerdemain; Explained and Made Easy for all Capacities by J. Victor, (Bristol, circa 1850)
- Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee or New White Magic Explained and Complete Course of Prestigitation (1853-1854) - J.N. Ponsin
- Memoirs of Robert-Houdin (1859 - first U.S. Edition) - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (Translated to English from French by Lascelles Wraxall).
- Les Secrets de la prestidigitation et de la magie (1868), which is Secrets Of Conjuring And Magic (1876) - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
- Modern Magic (1876) - Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis)
- 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
- Conjuring for Amateurs (1897) - Ellis Stanyon
- 20 Years a Fakir (1899) - S. James Weldon
- Modern Coin Manipulation (1900) - T. Nelson Downs
- The Magician's Handbook (1901) - P.T. Selbit
- 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) - August Roterberg
- Modern Magician's Hand Book (1902) - William J. Hilliar
- The Art of Modern Conjuring and Drawing Room Entertainment (1909) - Anonymous
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