The books includes:
• Cover
• Contents
• Editor's Preface
• Author's Preface
• The Home of Robert-Houdin
• Introduction
• Conjuring and its Professors
• The Art of Conjuring
• General Principles
• The Hand
• Escamotage, Prestidigitation
• Rules and Directions for the Execution of Various Sleights with Coins
• The Palm Proper
• The Tourniquet
• The Pincette
• The Coulee
• The Italian or Thumb Palm
• Disappearance by Means of the Sleeve
• Disappearance by Means of the Cravat
• Coin Changes
• The Change by Means of the Palm Proper
• The Change by Means of The Coulee
• The Change by Means of a Tray
• The Wand
• The Table
• Pockets and pochettes
• The Coat Sleeves
• Gestures
• The Eye
• The Boniment or Patter
• Tricks with Coins
• The Melting Coin
• The Flying Coins
• The Shower of Money
• The Multiplication of Money
• The Magic Filtration of Five-Franc Pieces
• The Intelligent Coin
• The Two Hats
• The Golden Coin in a Dinner Roll
• Card Tricks
• Card Tricks
• Card Sleights
• To Make the Pass
• False Shuffles
• The French Shuffle
• The Italian Shuffle
• The Partial Shuffle
• The Classifying Shuffle
• The Fan Shuffle
• To Force a Card
• To Change a Card-Modern Method
• To Change a Card-Old Method
• To Palm a Card-First Method
• To Palm a Card-Second Method
• To Palm a Card-Third Method
• To Replace a Palmed Card
• To Get Sight of a Card
• The Card Thought Of
• The Pass Reversed
• To Slide Back a Card
• The Wide or Long Card
• The Bridge
• Marked Cards
• Cards Arranged in a Given Order
• To Change one Pack for Another
• To Make the Pass with one Hand
• The Single-Handed Pass--Old Method
• The Single-Handed Pass--New Method
• The Single-Handed Pass made with the Tips of the Fingers
• To Change a Card with one Hand
• To Ruffle the Cards
• To Throw a Card
• To Spring the Cards from Hand to Hand
• The Cards Simultaneously Turned Over
• To Pick up an Outspread Pack of Cards
• Tricks with Cards
• Clairvoyance by Touch
• Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
• The Cards Passing Up the Sleeve
• The Cards Made Larger and Smaller
• The Ladies' Looking Glass
• The Sympathetic Cards
• The Electrified Cards
• The Power of the Will
• The Mesmerised Cards
• The Metamorphoses
• A Magical Transformation
• The Card Thought Of
• Thought Anticipated
• The Thoughts of Two Persons Anticipated
• The Four Aces
• The Card in the Pocket-Book
• Now!
• The Flying Aces and Kings
• The Protean Pack of Cards
• Sundry Expedients Used in Conjuring and Tricks of Various Descriptions
• To Palm Corks, Lumps of Sugar, and other Objects of small size
• A Digestive Dessert--To Eat Corks
• Sundry Methods of Vanishing Articles for which the Assistance of a Table is Necessary
• The Chinese Rings
• The Crystal Balls
• The Cannon-Ball Trick
• The Plumes and Shower of Sweets
• The Cups and Balls
• The Cups and Balls
• Conus Method of Working the Cups and Balls
• Bosco's Working of the Cups and Balls
• Chapter V Contents
• The Birth of Flowers
• The Miraculous Fishery
• Conclusion
The book was written by the father of modern conjuring Robert Houdin.
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