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[BLOW BOOK]. Nouvel Ambigu Magique ou Second Volume des Tableaux Changeans… Paris: Chez Chereau, 1778. Small 8vo (6 x 4”). Illustrated with hand-colored engraved plates, including images of flowers, harlequins, playing cards, soldiers, and others. Eight changes. Contemporary plain wrappers, later backstrip (some wear, chipping, creasing to wrappers, occasional thumbsoiling in text. An excellent example. The pages of the book change eight times when blown upon and flipped-through by the demonstrator, hence the term “Blow Book.” For further information, see Ricky Jay, The Magic Magic Book, p. 36.