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ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean Eugène (1805 – 71). The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, translated by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis). Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. A.E.G. Frontispiece, profusion of illustrations throughout. Thick 8vo. Trifling wear at corners and tiny spots to cloth; as fine an example of this seminal conjuring textbook as we have encountered.