1893 math book PUZZLES OLD AND NEW Professor Hoffmann

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. Title: ..................................................................................................................................... PUZZLES Old and New BY PROFESSOR HOFFMANN, Author of "Modern Magic," "Tricks with Cards," "Conjurer Dick, " etc. ILLUSTRATIONS .. ... LONDON FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. AND NEW YORK . satnrose · No date, but circa 1893 Color pictorial cloth hardcover with gilt lettering: a nice example of a "Victorian publisher's binding" 7-3/8" tall, xx and 394 pages + 2-pp. of ads Many illustrations For a list of the puzzles in this book, click : TABLE OF CONTENTS . . Owner name on endpaper: Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, Ann Arbor, Mich, 1937 Slightly worn, some faint spotting, contents agetoned, a couple of pinholes in the frontispiece, but the book is still in quite good or better condition Hinges and joints intact and sound . . . The following information was taken from The British Society for the History of Mathematics: Angelo John Lewis, "Professor Louis Hoffmann" (1839-1919), was the leading writer on magic, games, amusements, puzzles, etc. at the end of the last century. He was born at 3 Crescent Place, Mornington Crescent and was called to the Chancery Bar in 1861 [Findlay & Sawyer, pp.1 & 33]. In 1877, he was in Mornington Crescent [Raymond Toole Stott, A Bibliography of British Conjuring read more

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