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Die Gegenwart. Eine encyklopädische Darstellung der neuesten Zeitgeschichte für alle Stände. Zehnter Band

(MAGIC)Biblio.com

THE WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN OR HOCUS POCUS LAID OPEN AND EXPLAINED BY THOSE RENOWED sic MASTERS SENA SAMA HAMED BEN-ALLA AND ALL THE CELEBRATED AND MYSTERIOUS PROFESSORS OF THE ART OF NATURAL MAGIC

1833ST12867New York: N. C. Nafis 1833. 144 x 85 mm. 5 5/8 x 3 3/8". 71 pp. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL GRAY-GREEN PRINTED BOARDS upper cover with titling and an illustration of a gentleman identified as the author lower cover with two amusing woodcuts "The Lawyer and his Client" a bewigged gentleman astride an ass and "Hocus Poke-us" two boys fighting. In a brown cloth chemise and a slightly rubbed matching calf-backed slipcase. With a folding frontispiece depicting a conjurer and his assistant onstage before an amazed crowd. Toole-Stott 724. ◆Small stains at top and bottom of spine covers just slightly grubby endpapers a bit browned text with light inoffensive foxing but for what it is AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY the fragile binding entirely sound and the text remarkably fresh and clean. Given the materials it was made from and the hard use it would have been expected to suffer this is an exceptionally well-preserved copy of a popular handbook of conjuring tricks an early American edition of a work first compiled in 1722 by the British magician Henry Dean. Dean's work was itself based on Reginald Scot's influential "Discoverie of Witchcraft" 1584 which sought to discredit belief in "supernatural" forces by exposing the tricks by which conjurers deceived their audience. In the publications of Dean and subsequent editors this exposé of witchcraft evolved into a guide for performing parlor tricks. Our edition is a reprint or reissue of the 1831 version published by R. Schoyer; because the word "renowned" is spelled "renowed" on both title pages Toole-Stott speculates that Nafis bought sheets from Schoyer suggesting that our item would have been a reissue. These insubstantial guide books typically experienced considerable uncareful use in the hands of amateur and often juvenile magicians; consequently the few copies that do appear on the market are in deplorable shape. N. C. Nafis unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis7 800,00 $US≈ 6 599,58 €

(MAGIC) Despiau, ML M LBiblio.com

Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics; Proper for Agreeably Exercising the Minds of Youth. Translated from the French . with Several Corrections and Additions Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds at Play The whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools by Dr. Hutton Professor of Mathematics at Woolwich

1801306156London: Printed for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow by W. Glendinning 1801. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn joints cracked but sewing sound lacking spine label text block roughly trimmed occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise. First English edition. xix i errata 397 3 publisher's ads pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums problems parlor tricks and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards magic squares magic lanterns feats of artificial memory and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy" by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities including chapters on arithmetic "To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them &c." "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter" and amusing "secrets" "To make people in a room have a hideous appearance". Toole Stott 240 Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, by W. Glendinning unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis1 350,00 $US≈ 1 142,23 €

(MAGIC). QUITMAN, FREDERICK HENRYBiblio.com

A TREATISE ON MAGIC OR ON THE INTERCOURSE BETWEEN SPIRITS AND MEN

1810ST17557Albany New York: Balance Press 1810. FIRST EDITION. 170 x 103 mm. 6 3/4 x 4". vi 76 pp. Errata slip tipped onto final page. Contemporary marbled boards backed with sheepskin smooth spine divided into panels by single gilt rules. Front free endpaper with bookplate of the Ricky Jay Collection. Front pastedown with neat early owner's signature pencilled initials "M. A." in a juvenile hand adjacent to a rudimentary pencil sketch of two people; rear pastedown with pencilled signature of Sally E. Original errata slip pasted onto bottom half of final page the slip defective at lower left corner. Sabin 67364; Shaw & Shoemaker 21169. Sheepskin a bit rubbed marbled paper boards somewhat chafed stained and quite worn at corners endpaper a bit spotted torn or at back missing other minor defects but the unsophisticated original insubstantial binding still solid. Title page and front flyleaves with light dampstain to gutter and tail margin a little foxing and faint browning other imperfections but the volume still generally clean and surprisingly fresh despite its cheap paper. Written by a Lutheran minister in upstate New York this entertaining treatise gives a brief history of the supernatural from ancient times to the present day and seeks to educate the audience about the dangers and follies of harboring magical beliefs noting that "witchcraft can never take root unless it be supported by credulity." According to the author's preface Frederick Henry Quitman 1760-1832 was motivated to write this work after a neighbor's home was besieged by supposed "supernatural" occurrences that included thrown stones and theft. Even though Quitman a staunch skeptic endeavored to attribute the activity to mischievous entities of the human variety the damage had been done: "Scarcely had the rumour about the forementioned witchcraft a little subsided when we heard the report of the appearance of apparitions in several quarters of the town. And it is really to be feared that during this dull winter all the corners of the town for want of other employment will be infested with demons." The Annotations at the end of the book contain many amusing definitions and descriptions of such things as talismans popular magic gothic novels and ventriloquists. Our copy was owned by the eminent magician actor writer scholar and sleight of hand artist Ricky Jay 1946-2018. In their catalogue Sotheby's notes that "Ricky Jay's accomplishments were as varied as are the formats and subjects of the material in his celebrated Collection . . . . He is one of the very select company of persons who assembled a collection of the very first rank in a field in which he was not only a world-renowned practitioner but also a scholar of considerable note." Our 1810 printing--the only early edition of this work--is rare on the market with RBH recording just four copies at auction in more than 60 years. Balance Press

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis1 820,00 $US≈ 1 539,90 €

[Levi, Eliphas; Magic]; Waite Arthur EdwardBiblio.com

THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC. A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi With Biographical and Critical Essay

188634453London: George Redway 1886. Very Rare First Edition. Illustrated within the text with various symbols relating to magic and the genre. 8vo bound in early half-calf over marbled paper covered boards. xliii 1 349 1 pp. A rare survival the text-block quite clean and very well preserved the binding with evidence of use and age with rubbing to the extremities. VERY RARE AND THE TRUE FIRST EDITION VERY SELDOM ENCOUNTERED IN COMMERCE. Perhaps the first truly significant publication of Lévi's work in the English language. R. A. Gilbert tells that Waite was fascinated by the quotes from Lévi that he read in Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" 1877 and that Waite promptly acquired a copy of Lévi's major work "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" which he began translating into English. In 1885 Waite suggested to the prominent Theosophist A. P. Sinnett that an anthology of Lévi's writings based on these translations would make a good book. Sinnett evidently agreed and recommended him to the publisher George Redway who took on the project thus beginning what would turn out to be a lengthy collaboration with Waite. In addition to translating and editing Lévi's essays Waite contributed a Biographical and Critical Essay. Gilbert B1. Weiser In the preface to The History of Magic Waite enumerates what he believed to be the nine key tenets of magic as codified in Levi's earlier work Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic. They are: 1 There is a potent and real Magic popular exaggerations of which are actually below the truth. 2 There is a formidable secret which constitutes the fatal science of good and evil. 3 It confers on many powers apparently super-human. 4 It is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi. 5 Initiation therein gives empire over souls to the sage and full capacity for ruling human wills. 6. Arising apparently from this science there is one infallible indefectible and truly catholic religion which has always existed in the world but it is unadapted for the multitude. 7 For this reason there has come into being the exoteric religion of apologue parable fable and wonder-stories which is all that is possible for the profane : it has undergone various transformations and it is represented at this day by Latin Christianity under the obedience of Rome. 8 Its veils are valid in their symbolism and it may be called valid for the crowd but the doctrine of initiates is tantamount to a negation of any literal truth therein. 9 It is Magic alone which imparts true science. Levi The three chief components of Levi's magical thesis were: Astral Light the Will and the Imagination. "Eliphas Lévi" the name under which he published his books was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew .In 1854 Lévi visited England where he met the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton who was interested in Rosicrucianism as a literary theme and was the president of a minor Rosicrucian order. With Bulwer-Lytton Lévi conceived the notion of writing a treatise on magic. This appeared in 1855 under the title Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie and was translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite as Transcendental Magic its Doctrine and Ritual . Its famous opening lines present the single essential theme of Occultism and gives some of the flavor of its atmosp:Lévi's version of magic became a great success especially after his death. That Spiritualism was popular on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1850s contributed to this success. His magical teachings were free from obvious fanaticisms even if they remained rather murky; he had nothing to sell and did not pretend to be the inititate of some ancient or fictitious secret society . He incorporated the Tarot cards into his magical system and as a result the Tarot has been an important part of the paraphernalia of Western magicians. He had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later on the ex-Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley . It was largely through the occultists inspired by him that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic." wiki Arthur Edward Waite was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer R.A. Gilbert described him "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism — viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion." Waite was a prolific author with many of his works being well received in academic circles. He wrote occult texts on subjects including divination esotericism Rosicrucianism Freemasonry black and ceremonial magic Kabbalism and alchemy ; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works. His works on the Holy Grail influenced by his friendship with Arthur Machen were particularly notable. wiki George Redway hardcover

Buddenbrooks, Inc. · États-Unis3 795,00 $US≈ 3 210,95 €

[MAGIC]. WALKER, AlbertBiblio.com

Brilliant combination of attraction! Astounding novelties!: Mr. albert walker the world renowned magician and ventriloquist! Respectfully announces to the ladies and gentlemen of this place that he will give one of his grand exhibitions of varieties at blank Hall on blank ev'g blank 18blank : consisting of legerdemain necromancy ventroloquism. Wonderful developments of natural magic and the great mechanical theatre Illustrated with a superb and tasteful Dress brilliantly illuminated

1858AQ34883Hartford Connecticut: Calhoun Printing Company 66 State St. 1858. Large single leaf playbill printed within elaborate woodcut border. A fine copy. A finely preserved - and remarkably detailed - blank playbill for the elaborate combination of 'astounding novelties' performed by the showman magician and ventriloquist Albert Walker 1831-1899. Designed - as evidenced by the blank spaces - to be used in multiple locations with the time date and location to be completed in manuscript this broadside nevertheless is not short on detail of the programme involving several card tricks sleight of hand fire- eating Punch and Judy and ventriloquism to be performed: 'The following programme is merely intended as a foundation of Feats to be varied at each entertainment many of which are his own invention and have never before been attempted in America. The Wonderful fear of Santa Claus or the Juvenile Toy Shop. The Spanish Pin and Traveling Philosopher. The Changeable Cash or the Gambler outwitted. The Restored Card.The Flying Grain in which the assistant is frightend out of his mother wit. Suprising dexterity with Cards. The Flight of Rice.Prince Alladin's Glass or Chant of Electric Silver. This is a beautiful fear. -In this glass a piece of silver will dance and keep time with any tune played by the Orchester even when held by one of the audience'. The quotes reprinting 'opinions of the press' to the foot of this playbill provide the date. In 1858 at Worcester a reporter from the Munroe Democrat noted that 'On last saturday and Monday A. Walker favored our citizens with several entertainments consisting of magic ventriloquism music and fun of various sorts'. Rare; OCLC locates copies at just two locations worldwide Connecticut Museum of Culture and History and Michigan. . Dimensions 230 x 585 mm. Calhoun Printing Company, 66 State St. unknown

Antiquates Ltd · Royaume-Uni500,00 £GB≈ 570,90 €

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THE WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN OR HOCUS POCUS LAID OPEN AND EXPLAINED BY THOSE RENOWED sic MASTERS SENA SAMA HAMED BEN-ALLA AND ALL THE CELEBRATED AND MYSTERIOUS PROFESSORS OF THE ART OF NATURAL MAGIC

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A TREATISE ON MAGIC OR ON THE INTERCOURSE BETWEEN SPIRITS AND MEN

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THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC. A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi With Biographical and Critical Essay

Large collection of more than 400 glass positive magic lantern slides.

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Animisme et spiritisme. Essai d'un examen critique des phénomènes médiumniques spécialement en rapport avec les hypothèses de la "Force nerveuse", de l'"Hallucination" et de l'"Inconscient" comme réponse à l'ouvrage du Dr. Ed. von Hartmann, intitulé "Le Spiritisme".

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