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Magic tricks

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  • The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Line engraving.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.

    Howard, Rupert. | Date: [1930?]
    • Books

    Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

    Macknik, Stephen L. | Date: 2010
    • Books

    Die natürliche Magie : aus allerhand belustigenden und nützlichen Kunststücken bestehend / zusammengetragen von Johann Christian Wiegleb ; mit Kupfern.

    Wiegleb, Johann Christian, 1732-1800. | Date: 1782-1786
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.

    | Reference: 886i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.

    | Reference: 887i
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