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Galison. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!

Alhambrah, California: Owen Magic Supreme, 1962. 25 pages. Book contains details on how to perform several of Behnke's magic routines including Four Cards Down, Ace and Duece and Back and Forth. A clean tight book with bumped corners and some shelfwear.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover.

Paperback / softback. New.

Cincinnati, OH: The U.S. Playing Card Co., 1899. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stiff orange and light green wraps, lettered in black. Several small holes are punched into top corner of front cover, otherwise sunned and mildly rubbed spine panel/joints, modest handling wear. Interior clean and nicely intact. 48 pp. + [16] pp. publisher's catalog at rear mostly in full color. 2nd ed. (enlarged and illustrated)..

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Legare Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Legare Street Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: B.Law & Son, 1794 pp xvi 267 [1]; xii 280; xii 296; xi [1] 367 [1]. Fourth edition of compilation of "experiments" and mathematical tricks, including Arithmetical and Mechanical, Optics, Chromatics, Acoustics, Pneumatics, Hydrology, Pyrotechnics, Electrical and Magnetical. Ex-library Queen's College Cambridge with their withdrawn stamps. Condition: Some wear to leather spine edges. Library stickers to spines. Some foxing/browning, heavy in places. Volume one has 11 plates out of 12 (missing plate 2). Volume two has all 19 plates. Volume three has all 20 plates (plate 8 has piece missing from fore-edge not affecting plate). Volume four has 12 plates out of 14 (missing plates 2 & 3).. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Published by Thorp and Burch, and printed by Gye and Balne, n.d. [c.1820-1825] . 12mo., pp.216, uncut, marbled paper-covered boards reinforced with green linen backstrip, folding copper-engraved frontispiece plate; foxing to frontispiece and edges, with some foxing throughout, occasional light pencil ‘x’ marks to margins, boards rubbed and lightly worn, partly recoloured with biro, with wear to edges of boards, a good copy of this extremely scarce volume.

London: Printed for L. Davis, J. Robson, B. Law, and G. Robinson, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Complete in four volumes. Printed for L. Davis, J. Robson, B. Law, and G. Robinson, 1774; collated, complete, with all 65 original engraved, fold-out plates. With the one minor exception of Vol. III's loose ffep and half-title pages, all pages and plates are present and firmly bound together; the set is missing four of eight boards, and the ones that remain are in rough shape. Some liquid staining to a three plates in Vol. IV, else text, plates in very good condition, with some minor toning and foxing to leaves. Title labels missing from spines, stamped volume numbers remain clearly legible. Contemporary signature of "Wm Auber" in each volume. Pagination is as follows: Volume I "Containing Arithmetical and Mechanical Experiments": [3 (ffep, half-title, title)], xvi, 267pp., including advertisement, introduction, errata, description of the plates, 12 numbered folding… Read More

London: L.Davis, Holborn; J. Robson New Bond Street; B. Law, Avemary-lane; and G. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1774. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvi, 267pp; xi, 280pp; xiii, 296pp; xi, 367pp. 65 folding plates. Four volumes, full period calf with morrocco spine labels. Joints rubbed, but not broken, extremities worn with a few small spots of surface loss and some cracking to the spines. Prelims darkened with light scattered foxing throughout. All half titles and plates present and in very good condition with some slight toning at the edges. Overall, a very good set.

London: printed for B. Law and Son and G. C. and J. Robinson, 1794. 4 volumes in 2, 8vo, 65 engraved folding plates; contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, lightly rubbed, very good. Volume I: Arithmetical and Mechanical Experiments; volume II: Experiments in Optics, Chromatics and Acoustics; volume III: Electrical and Magnetical Experiments; volume IV: Experiments in Pneumatics, Hydrology, and Pyrotechnics. With an Appendix of Miscellaneous Recreations. This Appendix (pages 173-295), contains conjuring, magic and card tricks.

London: Printed for L. Davis, et al, 1774. First edition. Spines darkened, joints neatly spit, though boards holding firmly on cords; edges of text block spotted. Internally fine with no foxing or stains, though some offsetting to text and plates.. 4 volumes; original full polished calf with morocco lettering pieces; xvi, 267; xi, 280; xii, 296; xi, 367 pp. Illustrated with 65 folding copperplate engravings. Each volume with half-title giving the specific content for the volume, thus: v. 1. Arithmetical and mechanical experiments -- v. 2. Experiments in optics, chromatics and acoustics -- v. 3. Electrical and magnetical experiments -- v. 4. Experiments in pneumatics, hydrology, and pyrotechnics, with an appendix of miscellaneous recreations. The first volume including a large section devoted to "recreations" utilizing playing cards.