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| Title | The secrets of stage conjuring, tr. [from Magie et physique amusante] and ed., with notes by professor Hoffmann |
| Author | Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin |
| Editor | Angelo John Lewis |
| Published | 1881 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Aug 14, 2006 |
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