MODERN MAGIC BY PROFESSOR HOFFMAN - EXTREMELY RARE

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THIS AUCTION IS FOR Modern Magic BY Professor Louis Hoffman. American Edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, 604-608 SouthWashington Square, Philadelphia, Publisher, There is no date, although it was first published in 1876. There are 563 pages with 318 illustrations.. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and white. Light to moderate wear to spine. Prior owner, Newton Laughlin is penciled on inside front cover. Modern Magic is a book detailing the methods and tricks of magicians and conjurers of that era. Hoffmann was considered to be one of the greatest authorities on the theory and practice of magic, despite little professional experience. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time The book contains advice on the appearance, dress and staging of a magician. It then goes on to describe many tricks with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups and balls, balls, hats and a large chapter of miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice and some utility devices. The penultimate chapter describes large stage illusions, and the final chapter contains advice on routining a magic show. Modern Magic A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF CONJURING BY PROFESSOR HOFFMANN (1876) CHAPTER I: Introductory Observations Introduction The Magic Wand The Magician’s Table The Magician’s Dress CHAPTER II: General Principles of Sleight-of-Hand applicable to Card Tricks Introduction The Cards To “Make the Pass” To “Force” a Card To Make a “False Shuffle” To “Palm” a Card To “Ruffle” the Cards To “Change” a Card To Get Sight of a Drawn Card To “Slip” a Card To “Draw Back” a Card To “Turn Over” the Pack To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other To Throw a Card The “Bridge” CHAPTER III: Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and not requiring Sleight-of-Hand. Simple Modes of Discovering a Given Card Various Modes of Disclosing a Chosen Card To Make a Card Vanish From the Pack, and be Found in a Person’s Pocket To Place the Four Kings in Different Parts of the Pack, and to Bring Them Together by a Simple Cut The Four Kings Being Placed Under the Hand of One Person, and the Four Sevens Under the Hand of Another, to Make Them Change Places at Command Four Packets of Cards Having Been Formed Face Downwards on the Table, to Discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards To Name All the Cards in the Pack in Succession The Cards Being Cut, to Tell Whether the Number Cut is Odd Or Even The Whist Trick—To Deal Yourself All the Trumps To allow a Person to think of a Card, and to make that Card appear at such Number in the Pack as another Person shall Name The Cards Revealed by the Looking-Glass To Guess Four Cards Thought of by Different Persons The Pairs Re-Paired The Magic Triplets Another Mode of Discovering a Card Thought of To Guess, by the Aid of a Passage of Poetry Or Prose, Such One of Sixteen Cards as, in the Performer’s Absence, has been Touched or Selected by the Company To Detect, without Confederacy, which of Four Cards has been Turned Round in your Absence To Arrange Twelve Cards in Rows, in Such a Manner That They Will Count Four in Every Direction To Place the Aces and Court Cards in Four Rows, in Such a Manner That Neither Horizontally Nor Perpendicularly Shall There be in Either Row Two Cards Alike Either in Suit or Value The Congress of Court Cards CHAPTER IV: Tricks involving Sleight-of-hand, or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards The “Long Card.” Biseauté or Tapering Cards. Tricks Performed by the Aid of a Long Card, or biseauté Pack— A Card having been Chosen and Returned, and the Pack Shuffled, to produce the Chosen Card instantly in various ways. To Cut at... read more

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