Magic tricks -- History
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The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)- The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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Filed under: Magic tricks- Conjuring for Amateurs: A Practical Treatise on How to Perform Modern Tricks (1901), by Ellis Stanyon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fireside Magician: or, the Art of Natural Magic Made Easy (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1870), by Thomas Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Magic: In Which Are Given Clear and Concise Explanations of All the Well-Known Illusions, As Well As Many New Ones (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1910), by Ellis Stanyon, contrib. by Henry Ridgely Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Magical Suggestions (London: G. Johnson, 1921), by Harry Latour (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay (in Portuguese; Rio De Janeiro: Typ. Villas-Bôas, 1901), by Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
- Sleights: Being a Number of Incidental Effects, Tricks, Sleights, Moves and Passes, For Purposes Ranging From Impromptu to Platform Performances (c1914), by Burling Hull (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Some Modern Conjuring: A Series of Original Experiments in the Magic Art (ca. 1909), by Donald Holmes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Juggling Tricks (first series; London: E. Stanyon and co., 1901), by Ellis Stanyon (illustrated HTML at juggling.org)
- Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (Brooklyn, NY: Master Technic Pub. Co., c1911), by Burling Hull
- Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena (New York: Munn and Co., 1898), by Chung Ling Soo
- Ventriloquism Explained: and Juggler's Tricks, or Legerdemain, Exposed; With Remarks on Vulgar Superstitions, in a Series of Letters to an Instructor (Amherst, MA: J. S. and C. Adams, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hocus Pocus: or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain, in Perfection, By Which the Meanest Capacity May Perform the Whole Without the Help of a Teacher; Together with the Use of All the Instruments Belonging Thereto (11th edition; Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, 1795), by Henry Dean (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Automata Old and New (London: Imp. at the Chiswick press, 1893), by Conrad William Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Magicians' Hand Book: An Up-to-Date Treatise on the Art of Conjuring (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by William J. Hilliar, contrib. by Henry Ridgely Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Secrets of Stage Conjuring (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1900), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, ed. by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Keith ABC for Children (Boston: Publicity Department, Keith's Theatre, 1906), by James F. McNally, contrib. by B. F. Keith, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at Princeton)
- The Magazine of Magic (most volumes 1914-1922 online; US access only), ed. by Will Goldston (partial serial archives)
- Magic (UK-based magician's periodical, 1900-1920; selected issues online 1900-1907; US access only), ed. by Ellis Stanyon (partial serial archives)
- The Magic Wand (partial serial archives)
- The Magical Bulletin, contrib. by F. G. Thayer (partial serial archives)
- M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)
- Fifty New Card Tricks: A Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back Hand Palm With Cards and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick; Also Many New and Unpublished Tricks With Cards (New York: Wehman Bros., ca. 1900), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Howard Thurston's Card Tricks: Being a Fin de Siècle Manual on the Art of Conjuring With Cards, Including, Among Many Hitherto Unpublished Novel and Unique Experiments, a Comprehensive Description of the Continuous Front and Back-Hand Palm With Cards, and the Sensational New Rising Card Trick (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenheimer, c1903), by Howard Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
- New Era Card Tricks (London: W. and F. Hamley, c1897), by August Roterberg, illust. by L. R. Gossett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sealed Mysteries: Explaining the Latest Card Mysteries and Spirit Tricks Made Public for the First Time, with Directions for Constructing Trick Cards (Brooklyn, NY: Master Technic Pub. Co., c1911), by Burling Hull
- Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by S. W. Erdnase (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fortune-Telling by Cards (New York: R. P. Fenno and Company, ca. 1920), by P. R. S. Foli (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Absolute Key to Occult Science: The Tarot of the Bohemians, The Most Ancient Book in the World; For the Exclusive Use of Initiates (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892), by Papus, trans. by A. P. Morton
- An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot, by Paul Foster Case (PDF at innerjourneybooks.com)
- The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, by Arthur Edward Waite (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers, by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by A. L. Pogossky (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc., by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
- The Egyptian Revival: or, The Evercoming Son in the Light of the Tarot, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)
- Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
- University of California Publications in History (partial serial archives)
- Harvard Theological Studies (partial serial archives)
- Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany (partial serial archives)
- Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
- Collected Papers: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous (5 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1921), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
- Harvard Historical Studies (partial serial archives)
- Historic Oddities and Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1889), by S. Baring-Gould
- Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
- Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
- Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
- The Man in History: An Oration for the Columbian Year (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893), by John Clark Ridpath (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- The New History: Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Secrets of the Past (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Allen Upward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
- Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
- Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
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