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Lulu Hurst (the Georgia wonder) writes her autobiography, and for the first time explains and demonstrates the great secret of her marvelous power.
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- Rome, Ga. : L. Hurst, 1897.
- 1897
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AN (Atkinson) (Atkinson, L. H. Lulu Hurst) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell : a gentleman, who, tho' deaf and dumb, writes down any stranger's name at first sight, with their future contingencies of fortune : now living in Exeter Court over-against the Savoy in the Strand.
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- London : Printed for E. Curll, and sold by W. Mears ... [and 5 others], 1720.
- 1720
Verschiedenes zum Unterricht und zur Unterhaltung für Liebhaber der Gauckeltasche, des Magnetismus, und anderer Seltenheiten / gesammelt und herausgegeben von dem Hofrath von Eckartshausen.
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- München : Bey Joseph Lindauer, 1793.
- 1793-1791
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-881 (Eckartshausen, K. von. Verschiedenes zum Unterricht) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The ghost! : as produced in the spectre drama, popularly illustrating the marvellous optical illusions obtained by the apparatus called the Dircksian phantasmagoria : being a full account of its history, construction, and various adaptations / by Henry Dircks.
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- London : E. and F.N. Spon, 1863.
- 1863
- 2 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/4a455820-d761-0130-968a-58d385a7bbd0#/?tab=navigation&roots=2:fca0d200-2d60-0132-e05e-58d385a7b928Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-MZC (Dircks, H. Ghost) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-879 (Dircks, H. Ghost) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.
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- London ; New York : Cassell & Co., 1890.
- 1890
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-931 (Pepper, J. H. True history of the ghost) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Society of American Magicians' collection in the New York Public Library ...
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- [New York : The Society?, 1946?]
- 1946
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-917 (New York Public Library. Society of American magicians' collection) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Ingleby's Whole art of legerdemain : containing all the tricks and deceptions (never before published) as performed by the Emperor of Conjurors at the Minor Theatre, with copious explanations : also several new and astonishing philosophical and mathematical experiments, with preliminary observations, including directions for practising the slight of hand.
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- London : Printed for T. Hughes and C. Chaple, [1815]
- 1815
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-921 (Ingleby, T. Ingleby's Whole art of legerdemain) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Rouge et noir : the academicians of 1823, or, The Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the clubs of St. James's ... / by Charles Persius.
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- London : Lawler and Quick and Stephen Couchman, 1823.
- 1823
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433068180649Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-YFP (Dunne, C. Rouge et noir) Offsite Gamblers' tricks with cards, exposed and explained / by J.H. Green.
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- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1868?]
- 1868
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-YFP (Green, J. H. One hundred tricks with cards) Offsite The highway to hell / compiled and edited by John Philip Quinn.
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- Chicago : International Anti-Gambling Assn., 1895.
- 1895
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 8-YFP (Quinn, J. P. Highway to hell) Offsite Table turning and table talking : containing detailed reports of an infinite variety of experiments performed in England, France, and Germany, with most marvellous results : also, minute directions to enable every one to practise them and the various explanations given of the phenomena, by the most distinguished men of Europe.
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- London : Henry Vizetelly, Clarke, Beeton, [1853]
- 1853
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRH (Table turning and table talking) Offsite Christmas entertainments : wherein is described abundance of fiddle-faddle-stuff, raw-heads, bloody-bones, buggybows, and such like horrible bodies, eating, drinking, kissing & other diversions, witches, wizards, conjurers, and their merry pranks, fairies, spectres, ghosts & apparitions, a right merrie tale, the story of Jack Spriggins and the enchanted bean, curious memoirs of Old Father Christmas.
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- London : Field & Tuer, [1883]
- 1883-1740
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 9-ZID (Christmas entertainments) Offsite Le vieux Paris : fètes, jeux, et spectacles / Victor Fournel.
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- Tours : A. Mame, 1887.
- 1887
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066586615Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MVB (Fournel, V. Vieux Paris) Offsite Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes.
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- New York : Thomas R. Knox, [ca. 1890]
- 1890
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MVFL (Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes) Offsite Parlor tricks with cards : containing explanations of all the tricks and deceptions with playing cards ever invented, embracing tricks with cards performed by skillful manipulation and sleight of hand, by the aid of memory, mental calculation, and the peculiar arrangement of the cards ... / by the author of Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements ...
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- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863?]
- 1863
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZCD [RBS] 97-994 (Frikell, W. Parlor tricks with cards) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The court-gamester, or, Full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue, after the best method, as they are played at court and in the assemblées, viz. ombre, picquet, and the royal game of chess : wherein the frauds in play are detected, and the laws of each game annexed, to prevent disputes / written for the use of the young princesses, by Richard Seymour Esq.
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- London : Printed by E. Curll ..., 1720.
- 1720-1719
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZM (Seymour, R. Court-gamester) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Will Goldston's exclusive magical secrets.
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- London : Magician, Ltd., [1912]
- 1912
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-887 (Goldston, W. Will Goldston's Exclusive magical secrets) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which is added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.
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- London : Printed for J. Wallis ... by P. Norbury, New-Brentford, 1800.
- 1800
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC [RBS] 97-885 (Gale, J. Gale's Cabinet of knowledge; or, Miscellaneous recreations) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Les charlatans célèbres, ou, Tableau historique des bateleurs, des baladins, des jongleurs, des bouffons, des opérateurs, des voltigeurs, des escamoteurs, des filous, des escrocs, des devins, des tireurs de cartes, des diseurs de bonne aventure : et généralement de tous des personnages qui se sont rendus célèbres dans les rues et sur les places publiques de Paris, depuis une haute antiquité jusqu'à nos jours.
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- Paris : Chez Lerouge, 1819.
- 1819
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER [RBS] 97-344 (Gouriet, J. B. Charlatans celebres, ou, Tableau historique des bateleurs, des baladins, des jongleurs) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Endless amusement : a collection of upwards of 400 entertaining and astonishing experiments : among a variety of other subjects, are amusements in arithmetic, mechanics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, optics, pneumatics, electricity, chemistry, magnetism, combinations of figures, reflection & refraction of light, the art of making fire-works, diverting experiments with the magic lantern and camera obscura, wonders of the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &c., &c., &c. : the whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.
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- London : Thorp and Burch, [ca. 1818]
- 1818
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAP (Endless amusement. 1818) Offsite Endless amusement : a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, arithmetic, chemistry, electricity, hydraulics, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, wonders of the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &c., &c. : to which is added, A complete system of pyrotechny, or, The art of making fireworks : the whole so clearly explained, as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.
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- London : Henry Washbourne and Thomas Tegg, 1839
- 1839
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAP (Endless amusement. 1839) Offsite Domestic amusements, or, Philosophical recreations : containing the results of various experiments in practical science and the useful arts, applicable to the business of real life, to curious research and elegant recreation : including numerous useful tests of adulterations in the materials that conduce to health, and an account of new and important discoveries in natural philosophy / by John Badcock.
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- London : T. Hughes, [1823]
- 1823
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAP (Badcock, J. Domestic amusements, or, Philosophical recreations) Offsite The Young man's book of amusement : containing the most interesting and instructive experiments in various branches of science, to which is added all the popular tricks and changes in cards, and the art of making fire works.
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- Halifax : Milner and Sowerby, 1854.
- 1854
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAP (Young man's book of amusement) Offsite The New cabinet of arts : a series of entertaining experiments in various branches of science, numerous valuable recipes, and useful facts / compiled from authentic sources by T.C. Thornton.
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- London : J.S. Pratt, 1846.
- 1846
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066365408Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-OAP (Thornton, T. C. New cabinet of arts) Offsite A Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery comprised in the schedule annexed to an Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth year of His Present Majesty, George the Third, for enabling Mr. James Cox of the city of London, jeweller, to dispose of his museum by way of lottery.
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- London : Printed by H. Hart ... for Mr. Cox ..., 1773.
- 1773
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MNO (Cox, J. Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery) Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Napoleon's oraculum, or, Book of fate.
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- New York : Wm. H. Murphy, [ca. 1839]
- 1839
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAC p.v. 522 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Thompson Street Poker Club : from "Life".
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- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1888.
- 1888
The Pope's bull, and the words of Daniel O'Connell.
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- New-York : Joseph H. Ladd, [1856]
- 1856
12 tricks with a borrowed deck [microform] / by Martin Gardner ; illustrated by Tarbell.
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- Chicago : L.L. Ireland, [1940]
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z MV p.v. 208-214 Offsite De l'illusion : son mécanisme psycho-social / par le prestidigitateur Alber ; avec une préface de Raymond Meunier.
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- Paris : Libr. Bloud, 1909.
- 1909
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Alber. De l'illusion) Offsite Las maravillas de la magia moderna : manual práctico para juegos de prestidigitación propios para ejecutarse en salones, casinos y teatros : recopilación de los más sorprendentes espectáculos de ilusionismo que nos han presentado en estos últimos años los más famosos prestidigitadores nacionales y extranjeros / por Areny de Plandolit ; edición ilustrada con 393 dibujos de J. Passos, intercalados en el texto.
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- Barcelona : Maucci, [not before 1911]
- 1911
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Areny de Plandolit. Maravillas de la magia moderna) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
The Boy's own conjuring book : being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.
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- New York : Dick and Fitzgerald, [1860?]
- 1860
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Boy's own conjuring book) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Boy's own conjuring book) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.La prestidigitation sans appareils : traité de tous le tour de mains anciens et de toutes les manipulations nouvelles (notament du double empalmage) comprenant des tours anciens et modernes (cartes, pièces, billes de billard, dés à coudre) / Camille Gaultier.
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- Paris: Émile Nourry, [1914]
- 1914
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Gaultier, C. Prestidigitation sans appareils) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
A wizard's wanderings from China to Peru / by John Watkins Holden.
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- London : Dean & Son, 1886.
- 1886
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433017994066Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Holden, J. W. Wizard's wanderings from China to Peru) Offsite Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena.
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- Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union ; London : Religious Tract Society, [1855]
- 1855
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The adventures of the strange man / by H.S. Lynn ; with a supplement showing "how it's done".
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- London : H.S. Lynn, 1873
- 1873
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRE p.v. 4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Spiritualism exposed.
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- [Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n., 189-?]
- 1890-1899
Parlour magic : a manual of amusing experiments, transmutations, sleights and subtleties, legerdemain, &c., for the instruction and amusement of youth.
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- London : W. Kent, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Parlour magic) Offsite The fireside magician, or, The art of natural magic made easy : being a familiar and scientific explanation of legerdemain, physical amusement, recreative chemistry, diversions with cards, and of all the minor mysteries of mechanical magic, with feats : as performed in public by Herr Alexander, Robert Houdin, "The Wizard of the North," and distinguished conjurors of all ages and nations : comprising over one thousand interesting mental and physical recreations, with explanatory engravings / compiled from original sources, by Paul Preston.
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- New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1870.
- 1870
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Picton, T. Fireside magician) Offsite Magic and its mysteries / explained by J. Dazley Theobald.
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- London : Frederick Warne, [1881]
- 1881
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Theobald, J. D. Magic and its mysteries) Offsite Hundert Schnurrpfeifereien : anregende und ohne Vorübung oder umständliche Geräthschaften von jedermann leicht ausführbare Unterhaltungen für Gross und Klein / nach dem Französischen von Sophus Tromholt.
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- Dresden : Verlag des Universum (Alfred Hauschild), [1893?]
- 1893
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZC (Tromholt, S. Hundert Schnurrpfeifereien) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Les tours de cartes montantes / Claude Isbecque ; préface de Henri Plantet.
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- [Brussels, Belgium] : Cercle belge d'illusionnisme, [1954]
- 1954
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MZCD (Isbecque, C. Tours de cartes montantes) Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-04-11 - Please for assistance.Agassiz and spiritualism : involving the investigation of Harvard College professors in 1857 / by Allen Putnam.
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- Boston : Colby & Rich, [1874]
- 1874
Endless amusements, or, The art of legerdemain made easy to young persons.
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- Boston : Theodore Abbot, 1842.
- 1842
Griffin's wonder worker, or, Second book of conjuring [microform] : containing magician's opening and concluding speeches, a practical treatise on the art, with instructions for performing ten stage tricks, arranged for a one night's program / by Chas. E. Griffin.
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- [Suffern, N.Y.] : C.E. Griffin, c1897
- 1897
The psychic in a nutshell : (some brief notes for amateur psychic readers) / by Arthur Delroy.
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- [New York? : A. Delroy?], c1914.
- 1914
The banner of life : an exponent of spiritual and liberal thought and facts.
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- Boston, Mass. : [s.n.]
- 1910-1935
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRA+++ (Banner) v. 21-22 (July 12, 1930-Naj. 30, 1932) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRA+++ (Banner) v. 23, no. 1111-1130 (Feb. 1938-Feb. 1933) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRA+++ (Banner) v. 25 (Sept. 22, 1934-May 25, 1935) Offsite Human science, or, Phrenology : its principles, proofs, faculties, organs, temperaments, combinations, conditions, teachings, philosophies, etc., etc. : as applied to health, its values, laws, functions, organs, means, preservation, restoration, etc. : mental philosophy, human and self improvement, civilization, home, country, commerce, rights, duties, ethics, etc. : God, His existence, attributes, laws, worship, natural theology, etc. : immortality, its evidences, conditions, relations to time, rewards, punishments, sin, faith, prayer, etc. : intellect, memory, juvenile and self education, literature, mental discipline, the senses, sciences, arts, avocations, a perfect life, etc., etc., etc. / by O.S. Fowler.
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- Philadelphia, Pa. ; Chicago, Ill. ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; St. Louis, Mo. : National Publishing Co. ; San Francisco, Cal. : A.L. Bancroft & Co., c1873.
- 1873
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 11-1080 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The missing link in modern spiritualism / by A. Leah Underhill of the Fox family ; revised and arranged by a literary friend.
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- New York : Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885.
- 1885
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRC (Underhill. Missing link in modern spiritualism) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The death-blow to spiritualism : being the true story of the Fox sisters, as revealed by authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken / by Reuben Briggs Davenport.
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- New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., 1897.
- 1897
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YRC (Davenport, R. Death-blow to spiritualism...) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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