Page Turner - PDF - (250.75 MB) Bibliographic InformationĮckartshausen, Karl von, 1752-1803. München : Bei Joseph Lentner, 1791-1795. Aufschlüsse zur Magie aus geprüften Erfahrungen über verborgene philosophische Wissenschaften und verdeckte Geheimnisse der Natur / geschrieben von Karl von Eckartshausen. Page Turner - PDF (37.41MB) Bibliographic InformationĮckartshausen, Karl von, 1752-1803. Page Turner - PDF (226.22 MB) - Bibliographic Informationīright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore. Page Turner - PDF (739 MB) - Bibliographicīits of Patter. Franckfurt am Mayn: Bey Thomas Fritschens sel. Unpartheyische Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie : vom Anfang des Neuen Testaments biss auf das Jahr Christi 1688. Venetijs: In calcographia Francisci Bindonis, et Maphei Pasini, Socijs. Cosmographiae Introductio: Cum Quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae Principijs ad eam rem Necessarijs.
Houdini's theatrical collection was sold after his death to Messmore Kendall and later donated to the University of Texas. Of special note are over one hundred unannotated scrapbooks containing theatre notices and news clippings on subjects of personal interest. Also in the collection are prints, playbills, printed ephemera, periodicals, and many volumes of pamphlets on such topics as card tricks, mediums, hypnotism, handcuff escape methods, and chalk-talking. discusses significant items in " Things Magical in the Collections of the Rare Book Division," QJLC, v. While strongest in nineteenth and twentieth century publications on spiritualism- Houdini doubted "if any one in the world has so complete a library on modern Spiritualism: - the Houdini Collection contains a number of magic books inscribed or annotated by well-known magicians. Harry Houdini (1874-1926), master magician and escape artist, wrote in A Magician Among the Sprits, (1924) that he had "accumulated one of the largest libraries in the world on psychic phenomena, Spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, demonology, evil spirits, etc., some of the material going back as far as 1489." In 1927, through Houdini's bequest, the Library received 3,988 volumes from his collection. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Selected Special Collections Harry Houdini Collection Publications, scrapbooks, and other material relating to spiritualism and magic. Harry Houdini Collection(Selected Special Collections: Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress) The
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