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McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Automatic or spirit writing, with other psychic experiences (T. G. Newman, 1896), also by Sarah A. Francis Underwood, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Automatic or spirit writing, with other psychic experiences (Thomas G. Newman, 1896), also by Sara A. Underwood and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): A biography of the brothers Davenport : with some account of the physical and psychical phenomena which have occurred in their presence in America and Europe (Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1864), also by Thomas Low Nichols and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The Book of notable things : comprehending a choice variety of rare, curious, and important receipts, adapted to domestic purposes : together with an interesting selection of tales, anecdotes, and essays, replete with wit, humour, and instruction. (D. Mackenzie, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The boy's modern playmate (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.), also by J. G. Wood and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Boy's own book : a complete encyclopedia of all athletic, scientific, recreative, outdoor and indoor exercises and diversions. (Leavitt & Allen Bros., 1852), also by William Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The Boy's own conjuring book : being a complete hand-book of parlour 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, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings. (Dick and Fitzgerald, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): De l'illusion : son mécanisme psycho-social (Libr. Bloud, 1909), also by prestidigitateur Alber (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Endless amusement : a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, arithmetic, chemistry, electricity, hydraulics, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, wonders of the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &c., &c. : to which is added, A complete system of pyrotechny, or, The art of making fireworks : the whole so clearly explained, as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity. (Henry Washbourne and Thomas Tegg, 1839), also by Chesley V. Young, Morris N. Young, Hanna M. McManus, and John J. McManus (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Fifty years of a showman's life, or, The life and travels of Van Hare (W.H. Allen, 1888), also by G. Van Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Godwin's Lives of the necromancers (Chatto and Windus, 1876), also by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Histoires disputes et discours des illusions et impostures des diables, des magiciens infames, sorcieres et empoisonneurs, des ensorcelez et demoniaques et de la guerison d'iceux : item de la punition que meritent les magiciens les empoisonneurs et les sorcieres : le tout compris en six livres (Aux bureaux du Progrès médical ;, 1885), also by Johann Weyer and Thomas Erastus (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Human science (National Publishing Co. ;, 1873), also by O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Lives of the necromancers: or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power. (F. J. Mason, 1834), also by William Godwin and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Lorento's wizards' guide, or, Magic made easy (Hurst, 1878), also by Francois R. Blitz and Professor Lorento (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Magic and its mysteries (Frederick Warne, 1881), also by J. Dazley Theobald (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena. (American Sunday-School Union ;, 1855), also by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Manuel de physique amusante, ou, Nouvelles récréations physiques : contenant une suite d'expériences curieuses, instructives et d'une exécution facile, ainsi que diverses applications aux arts et à l'industrie : suivi d'un vocabulaire de physique (Roret, libraire, 1826), also by Julia de Fontenelle (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Miss Martineau's letters on mesmerism. (Harper & Brothers, 1845), also by Harriet Martineau, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The New cabinet of arts : a series of entertaining experiments in various branches of science, numerous valuable recipes, and useful facts (J.S. Pratt, 1846), also by T. C. Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Parlour magic : a manual of amusing experiments, transmutations, sleights and subtleties, legerdemain, &c., for the instruction and amusement of youth. (W. Kent, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The Philosophy of animal magnetism (Philadelphia, 1928), also by Joseph Jackson and A gentleman of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Phrenology made easy (F.M. Lupton, 1894), also by James Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The practical magician and ventriloquist's guide : a practical manual of fireside magic and conjuring illusions : containing also complete instructions for acquiring & practising the art of ventriloquism. (Hurst & Co., 1876), also by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed (D. Appleton and Company, 1853), also by Charles Grafton Page, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Rappers (H. Long & Brother, 1854), also by Searcher after truth and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Rochester knockings! : discovery and explanation of the source of the phenomena generally known as the Rochester knockings. (George H. Derby and Co. ;, 1851), also by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Rouge et noir : the academicians of 1823, or, The Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the clubs of St. James's ... (Lawler and Quick and Stephen Couchman, 1823), also by Charles Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Spiritualism and charlatanism (S.W. Green, printer, 1873), also by Pendie L. Jewett and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): Witch Hill : a history of Salem witchcraft, including illustrative sketches of persons and places (Carlton & Lanahan ;, 1870), also by Zachariah Atwell Mudge (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): A wizard's wanderings from China to Peru (Dean & Son, 1886), also by John Watkins Holden, Chesley V. Young, Morris N. Young, Hanna M. McManus, and John J. McManus (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The wonders of the little world; or, A general history of man, displaying the various faculties, capacities, powers and defects of the human body and mind. (Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson [etc.], 1806), also by Nathaniel Wanley and William Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress): The Young man's own book : a manual of politeness, intellectual improvement, and moral deportment, calculated to form the character on a solid basis and to insure respectability and success in life. (Desilver, Thomas, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)

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