Performing art involving the use of illusion

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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.

Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.

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

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

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

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Magic tricks

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

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

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

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

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