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Supplément à la Magie blanche dévoilée ... Contenant l'explication de plusieurs tours nouveauz

Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826. n 91016296 · 1785 · A Paris : Chez l'auteur · 11 pictures

A 1785 Paris supplement to Henri Decremps's La Magie blanche dévoilée, self-published by the author and written for readers who wanted conjurors' tricks explained in plain mechanical terms. The plates are small square woodcuts, each numbered in a corner and lettered A through H, showing cutaway goblets, rigged tables, levers and concealed catches rendered in flat hatched line; useful for diagram borders, key-lettered figures and apparatus silhouettes.

Magic tricks

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