[Prestidigitation - Amusements scientifiques - Jeux] - Colle - Lot 213

[Prestidigitation - Amusements scientifiques - Jeux] - Collection of works on prestidigitation, scientific amusements and games. 1/ - Barbaud, Roger. - Prestidigitation and white magic. T I - Card tricks without apparatus. T II - Card tricks with apparatus. T III - Scarves and flags. T IV - Hydromagie. Water tricks. Appearances, disappearances, multiplications, color changes. Paris, Encyclopédie Roret. 4 volumes in-8 paperback (covers browned or sunned) - 298 ; 316 ; 336 pp. ; 215 pp. with figures in-t. 2/ - Rémy, M. - Spirites et illusionnistes. Paris, A. Leclerc, 1911. In-8 paperback - scotch tape on cover - 257 pp. Complete with 8 photographic plates h-t. 3/ - Odin. - Les cartes biseautées. Unpublished tricks. Paris, H. Billy, [c. 1928]. Paperback (Format 17.3 x 11.4 cm) stained cover with small lack, pale inner wetness - 40 pp. 4 fig. in-t. 4/ - Constant, P. - Petit manuel de tours de physique... Paris, Bernardin-Béchet, 1925 - In-12 paperback with illustrated clrs cover - 106 pp. 5/ - Joseph-Renaud, J. - Comment on devient illusionniste. Paris, Gründ, 1946. In-8 paperback in illustrated cover (stained) - wetness to 4 pll. - 93 pp. 8 photographic plates. 6/ - Dicksonn. - Tricks and mysteries revealed... Paris, A. Méricant, [c. 1911] - 280 pp. Cover damaged. 7/ - Grant, U.F. - Illusion secrets. Pitttsfield, Massachusetts, 1935. In-4 paperback, mimeographed with 22 ff. and 15 in-t. figs. 8/ - Alber. - La Prestidigitation moderne. Lecteurs de pensée, devineresses, secets des prestidigitateurs, fakirs, médiums, etc... Paris, Albin Michel, 1927. In-8 paperback - 263 pp, [2 ff.], fig. in-t. 9/ - Catalogues de la maison Mayette. - Frappez à la bonne porte (c. 1939) - paperback in-8, illustrated cover - 20 illustrated ff. and 1 price list insert. - André Mayette présente les dernières nouveautés et quelques bonnes expériences à ajouter à votre programme (1941) - paperback, format 13.2 x 10.7 cm - cover illustrated with a card with a slit to slide a pull-tab revealing the text "les dernières nouveautés" - [15 ff.] - Choisissez la bonne route - (c. 1951] - oblong paperback, illustrated front cover (15.2 x 19.4 cm) - 16 illustrated pages and green price list insert. 10/ - Decremps. 6 La Magie blanche dévoilée ou explication des tours surprenans... avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, ls automates joueurs d'échecs, etc... Paris and Liège, F. J. Desoer, 1789. In-8 bound in full contemporary calf, smooth ornate spine, red title page and green tomaison. Tome I and II (with supplement) - T I, VIII, 118 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece depicting an experiment, and 3 woodcuts in-t, including 2 full-page; T II (supplement), VIII, 270 pp., [1 f. approb.]. Illustrated with an engraved pl. h-t presenting a theatrical staging experiment, and 26 woodcuts in-t including 2 full-page woodcuts with 2 subjects. 11/ - [Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Des Amusemens Des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques, Des procédés curieux des Arts; des Tours récréatifs subtils de la Magie Blanche, des découvertes ingénieuses variées de l'industrie. Paris, Panckouke, 1792]. Volume of plates only. In-4 cloth binding completely damaged, but plates generally well preserved with scattered foxing - 85 plates out of 86, missing plate 3 of white magic. Contains the following amusements: Geometry (10) - Arithmetic (2) - Astronomy (1 double) - Gnomonics (9 of which 1 double) - Physics (15) - Mechanics (8) - Optics (10) - Acoustics or Music (2) - Catoptrics (6) - Navigation and Architecture (2) - Pyrotechnics (4) - Occult or Deceptive Traits (2) - Magic Numbers (2) - Magic Combinations (1) - Game Towers (1) - White Magic (10). 12/ - Manoury. - Le Jeu de dames à la Polonoise ou traité historique de ce jeu, sa marche, ses règles, leur explication... Paris, l'Auteur, 1787. In-12 damaged half calf - [2 ff.], 272 pp., VI pp., 28 pp. (l'Art Polonois, Poème didactique), 4 pp. (errata). Illustrated with 1 folding plate. Uncommon work. 13/ - Series 1 and 2 of Tom-Tit's amusing science are enclosed with percalines in poor condition.