Hoffmann (Professor), 1839-1919., Plate, Adrian, inscriber., Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · New York : E.P. Dutton & Co. ; London : George Routledge & Sons, 1904. · leaf 114
86 Later Magic caution, and it has till now remained practically un- known to the great majority of magical performers. It was the joint invention of Robert Heller, a brilliant performer now, alas! gone to his rest, and Professor De Vere, formerly well known as a magician and maker of ‘conjuring… … secrecy, from which, fortunately for my readers, | am now released. The table may be either of the “gipsy”’ form, as illustrated in Fig. 71, or mounted on a central pillar, 1 Professor De Vere has so long disappeared from sight, so far as London is concerned, that I find a very general impression…
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