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The art of magic

Downs, T. Nelson (Thomas Nelson), 1868-1938 · 1909 · Buffalo, N. Y. : Downs-Edwards Co. · 18 pictures

A conjuring manual by coin-manipulator T. Nelson Downs, published in Buffalo in 1909 for amateur and stage magicians learning sleights. Numbered line figures show hands palming, back-palming and passing coins, drawn in bare outline with occasional dense crosshatched backgrounds; useful for gesture studies, instructional diagram layouts and isolated hand silhouettes.

Magic tricks · Magic tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

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