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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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FormatText | Call numberAN (Atkinson) (Atkinson, L. H. Lulu Hurst) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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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
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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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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-881 (Eckartshausen, K. von. Verschiedenes zum Unterricht) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-879 (Dircks, H. Ghost) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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FormatText | Call number8-MZC (Dircks, H. Ghost) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-931 (Pepper, J. H. True history of the ghost) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-917 (New York Public Library. Society of American magicians' collection) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-921 (Ingleby, T. Ingleby's Whole art of legerdemain) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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Gamblers' tricks with cards, exposed and explained / by J.H. Green.
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New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1868?]
1868
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FormatText | Call number8-YFP (Green, J. H. One hundred tricks with cards) | Item locationOffsite |
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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FormatText | Call number8-YFP (Quinn, J. P. Highway to hell) | Item locationOffsite |
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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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
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FormatText | Call number9-ZID (Christmas entertainments) | Item locationOffsite |
Le vieux Paris : fètes, jeux, et spectacles / Victor Fournel.
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Tours : A. Mame, 1887.
1887
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Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes.
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New York : Thomas R. Knox, [ca. 1890]
1890
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FormatText | Call numberMVFL (Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call numberMZCD [RBS] 97-994 (Frikell, W. Parlor tricks with cards) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZM (Seymour, R. Court-gamester) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Will Goldston's exclusive magical secrets.
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London : Magician, Ltd., [1912]
1912
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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-887 (Goldston, W. Will Goldston's Exclusive magical secrets) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC [RBS] 97-885 (Gale, J. Gale's Cabinet of knowledge; or, Miscellaneous recreations) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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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FormatText | Call numberMWER [RBS] 97-344 (Gouriet, J. B. Charlatans celebres, ou, Tableau historique des bateleurs, des baladins, des jongleurs) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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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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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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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FormatText | Call numberOAP (Badcock, J. Domestic amusements, or, Philosophical recreations) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call numberOAP (Young man's book of amusement) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call number3-OAP (Thornton, T. C. New cabinet of arts) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call numberMNO (Cox, J. Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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Napoleon's oraculum, or, Book of fate.
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New York : Wm. H. Murphy, [ca. 1839]
1839
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FormatText | Call numberNAC p.v. 522 no. 1-4 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Thompson Street Poker Club : from "Life".
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New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1888.
1888
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FormatText | Call numberNBF p.v. 283 6 titles | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The Pope's bull, and the words of Daniel O'Connell.
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New-York : Joseph H. Ladd, [1856]
1856
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12 tricks with a borrowed deck [microform] / by Martin Gardner ; illustrated by Tarbell.
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Chicago : L.L. Ireland, [1940]
1940
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FormatText | Call number*Z MV p.v. 208-214 | Item locationOffsite |
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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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Alber. De l'illusion) | Item locationOffsite |
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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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Areny de Plandolit. Maravillas de la magia moderna) | Item locationOffsite |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Boy's own conjuring book) | Item locationOffsite |
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Boy's own conjuring book) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Gaultier, C. Prestidigitation sans appareils) | Item locationOffsite |
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A wizard's wanderings from China to Peru / by John Watkins Holden.
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London : Dean & Son, 1886.
1886
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Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena.
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Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union ; London : Religious Tract Society, [1855]
1855
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberYRE p.v. 4 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Spiritualism exposed.
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[Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n., 189-?]
1890-1899
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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
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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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Picton, T. Fireside magician) | Item locationOffsite |
Magic and its mysteries / explained by J. Dazley Theobald.
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London : Frederick Warne, [1881]
1881
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Theobald, J. D. Magic and its mysteries) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call numberMZC (Tromholt, S. Hundert Schnurrpfeifereien) | Item locationOffsite |
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Les tours de cartes montantes / Claude Isbecque ; préface de Henri Plantet.
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[Brussels, Belgium] : Cercle belge d'illusionnisme, [1954]
1954
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Agassiz and spiritualism : involving the investigation of Harvard College professors in 1857 / by Allen Putnam.
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Boston : Colby & Rich, [1874]
1874
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Endless amusements, or, The art of legerdemain made easy to young persons.
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Boston : Theodore Abbot, 1842.
1842
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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
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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
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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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FormatText | Call numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 25 (Sept. 22, 1934-May 25, 1935) | Item locationOffsite |
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FormatText | Call numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 23, no. 1111-1130 (Feb. 1938-Feb. 1933) | Item locationOffsite |
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FormatText | Call numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 21-22 (July 12, 1930-Naj. 30, 1932) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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FormatText | Call numberJFE 11-1080 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberYRC (Underhill. Missing link in modern spiritualism) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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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
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FormatText | Call numberYRC (Davenport, R. Death-blow to spiritualism...) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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