TRICKS AND DIVERSIONS WITH CARDS : A POPULAR EXPLANATION OF ALL THE DECEPTIVE TRICKS EVER PERFORMED BY THE MOST CELEBRATED CONJURERS, MAGICIANS, AND PRESTIDIGITATORS; SIMPLIFIED AND ARRANGED FOR HOME AMUSEMENT AND SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENTS, TO WHICH IS ADDED AN EXPOSURE OF THE CARD TRICKS MADE USE OF BY PROFESSIONAL CARD PLAYERS, BLACKLEGS AND GAMBLERS de Professor Miller - 1875

New York: Hurst and company, 1875. Paperback. FBR (Fair but Rare). Color illustrated stapled wraps, octavo. 90 pages, plus six page publisher catalog. Note conditon: jagged chip to front corner which starts at one inch and goes down front edge three inches with the jagged edge being one to three inches deep and affects "Diversions" in the title. The chip has a white backing which makes the cover complete. Rear wrap is stained and wraps are darkened. Spine is chipped, stapled binding tight. Edges stained and some very light dampstaining to top margin of first 70 pages. Text is clean. Very scarce early book on card tricks. Topics covered:

• Instructions For Amateurs
• How to Make the Pass
• Forcing a Card
• The "Long Card"
• The Divining Card
• Deceptive Shuffles
• To Smuggle A Card
• To Slip A Card
• To Carry Away A Card
• To Place A Card
• The Ten Duplicate Cards—To Reveal A Person's Thoughts
• Three Cards being Presented to Three Persons to Guess which Each has Chosen
• To Produce a Particular Card Without Seeing the Pack
• To Call for Any Card in the Pack
• The Changeable Ace
• The Convertible Aces
• The Metamorphosed Cards
• The Gathering Of The Clans
• To Tell The Number Of Cards By The Weight
• To Make A Card Pass From One Hand Into The Other
• The Card Hit Upon By Guess
• Ups And Downs
• To Tell The Card That A Person Has Touched With His Finger
• To Discover Any Card In The Pack By Its Weight Or Smell
• The Four Accomplices
• The Turn-Over Feat
• The Nerve Feat
• The Card In A Mirror
• The Card In The Opera-Glass
• The Magic Tea-Caddies
• Guessing A Card Thought Of
• To Tell A Card By Smelling It
• To Change A Card Locked Up In A Box
• The Knaves And The Constable
• To Guess The Spots On Cards At The Bottom Of Three Packets, Which Have Been Made By The Drawer
• The Royal Emigrants
• The Magic Opera Glass
• To Separate The Two Colors Of A Pack Of Cards By One Cut
• The Card Discovered Under The Handkerchief
• The Card Under The Hat
• At The Game Of Whist, What Probability That The Four Honors Will Be In The Hands Of Any Two Partners
• Sixteen Cards Being Disposed In Two Rows, To Tell The Card Which A Person Has Thought Of
• To Tell How Many Cards A Person Takes Out Of A Pack, And To Specify Each Card
• To Guess The Number Of Spots On Any Card, Which A Person Has Drawn From A Pack
• To Change A Pack Of Cards Into Various Pictures
• To Let Twenty Persons Draw Twenty Cards, And Make Each Draw The Same
• To Make A Card Jump Out Of The Pack And Run On The Table
• To Tell All The Cards Without Seeing Them
• To Tell A Card Thought Of, And Name Its Position In The Pack
• To Change The Card By Word Of Command
• "Twin-Card" Trick
• Ten Cards Being Arranged In A Circle, To Tell That Which Any One Thought Of
• To Produce A Card From A Nut Or Cherry Stone
• To Burn A Card, And Afterwards Find It In A Watch
• The Card In The Egg
• The Card In The Pocket-Book
• To Pick Out A Card Thought Of, Blindfold
• The Card Found Out By The Point Of A Sword
• To Name The Card Upon Which One Or More Persons Fix
• The Vanishing Card
• To Produce A Mouse From A Pack Of Cards
• To Send A Card Through A Table
• To Change Four Knaves Or Kings Held In Your Hand Into Blank Cards Or Into Four Aces
• The Locomotive Card
• The Prestidigitorial Metamorphosis
• The Queens' Dig For Diamonds
• To Make A Card Which A Person Has Drawn Dance On The Wall
• To Make A Card Spring Up Into The Air From The Pack, Without Being Touched
• The Card In The Ring
• To Name The Rank Of A Card That A Person Has Drawn From A Piquet Pack
• To Tell The Card That May Be Noted
• To Tell The Amount Of The Numbers Of Any Two Cards Drawn From A Common Pack
• To Tell The Names Of All The Cards By Their Weights
• Mysterious Disappearance Of The Knave Of Spades
• To Make The Court Cards Always Come Together
• To Turn A Card Into A Bird
• The Card Of One Color Found In A Pack Of The Other
• To Name Several Cards Which Have Been Drawn Out Of A Pack Which Has Been Divided Into Two Heaps
• To Find A Certain Card After It Has Been Shuffled In The Pack
• Of Twenty-Five Cards Laid In Five Rows Upon A Table, To Name The One Touched
• The Four Inseparable Kings
• To Name Several Cards Which Two Persons Have Drawn From A Pack
• Of Two Rows Of Cards, To Tell The One Which Has Been Touched
• To Hold Four Kings Or Four Knaves In Your Hand, And To Change Them Suddenly Into Blank Cards, Then Into Four Aces
• To Shuffle The Cards In Such A Manner As Always To Keep One Certain Card At The Bottom
• The Transmuted Cards
• The Circle Of Fourteen Cards
• The Shifting Card
• The Magic Slide, Or To Make A Card Disappear In An Instant
• The Four Transformed Kings
• To Guess The Cards Which Four Persons Have Fixed Their Thoughts Upon
• The Chosen Card Revealed By A Pinch of Snuff
• How To Arrange The Twelve Picture Cards And The Four Aces of A Pack In Four Rows, So That There Will Be In Neither Row Two Cards Of The Same Value Nor Two Of The Same Suite. Whether Counted Horizontally Or Perpendicularly
• The Art Of Fortune Telling By Cards
• The Magic Twelve
• The Drawn Card Nailed To The Wall
• On Entering A Room, To Know of Three Cards Placed Side By Side Which Have Been Reversed - That Is To Say, Turned Upside Down.
• To Bring A Card Which Has Been Thrown Out Of The Window Into The Pack Again
• A New Method To Tell A Card By Its Weight
• The Window Trick
• The Numerical Card
• The Three Magical Parties
• Several Different Cards Being Fixed on By Different Persons, To Name That on Which Each Person Fixed
• To Discover The Card Which Is Drawn, By The Throw Of a Die
• The Card Changing in The Hands
• To Make Several Persons Draw Cards Which They Will Themselves Replace in The Pack, And To Find Them Again
• The Buried Heart
• The Erratic Card
• The Magical Trio
• To Find In The Pack. And Through A Handkerchief, Whatever Card A Person Has Drawn
• To Conjure A Certain Card Into Your Pocket
• To Produce A Required Card From Your Pocket
• To Tell Through A Wine-Glass What Cards Have Been Turned
• To Change Five Kings Into Five Queens
• The Magic Sevens
• The Numerical Trick of Cards
• The Novel Game Of Tontine
• To Guess In Which Hand, Holding Counters, Can Be Found The Odd Or Even Number
• To Produce Numberless Changes With A Given Number Of Cards
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• An Exposure of The Card Tricks Made Use Of By Professional Card Players, Blacklegs And Gamblers
o Whist
o Reflectors
o The Longs And Shorts
o Sauter La Coupe
o Convex And Concave Cards
o Handling The Cards
o Garreting
o Slipping The Cards
o Walking The Pegs
o Pricked Cards.