The Magician's Own Book
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- 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
George Arnold and Frank Cahill
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1. THE MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK, OR THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.2. PREFACE.3. INDEX.4. THE YOUNG CONJUROR.5. THE YOUNG CONJUROR. (continued 2)6. TRICKS WITH CARDS.7. THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.8. AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM.9. EXPERIMENTS IN GALVANISM.10. EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM.11. THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AËROSTATICS.12. THE MAGIC OF OPTICS AND OPTICAL AMUSEMENTS.13. TRICKS IN MECHANICS.14. TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS.15. TRICKS IN ACOUSTICS.16. THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS17. THE MAGIC OF NUMBERS (continued 2)18. TRICKS IN GEOMETRY.19. PRACTICAL PARADOXES AND PUZZLES.20. ANSWERS TO PRACTICAL PUZZLES.21. THE MAGIC OF ART.22. SECRET WRITING.23. THE MAGIC OF STRENGTH.24. MISCELLANEOUS25. INQUIRE WITHIN26. The Reason Why: Natural History.27. The Reason Why: GENERAL SCIENCE.28. Live and Learn;29. The Secret Out; OR, 1,000 TRICKS WITH CARDS AND OTHER RECREATIONS.30. The Magician's Own Book OR, THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.31. THE SOCIABLE; OR, One Thousand and One Home Amusements.32. The Perfect Gentleman;33. Art of Dancing without a Master;34. SONGS OF IRELAND.35. DICK & FITZGERALD'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.36. The Harp of a Thousand Strings37. THE BOOK OF One Thousand Comical Stories38. Mrs. Partington's Carpet Bag of Fun.