![]() ![]() Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin’s most popular book is Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Written. Levrault, the latter leader of the Société Berger-Levrault et Cie in 1850, until his death (1903). Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin has 27 books on Goodreads with 439 ratings. Provenance: Copy of Alfred Berger-Levrault (1853-1888), eldest son of Oscar B. Orange cover preserved with a beautiful composition by Maurisset engraved by Belhatte on the back cover.Ĭondition: Good copy, slight friction at the ends of the jaws, yellowed interior, without foxing. The technical part contains the general principles of cheating in card games.Ĭontemporary binding, black half-sheepskin, ornate spine. ![]() ![]() He recounts a large number of cases of cheating in games, especially inĬard games with money pledges. In this book where professional cheaters are designated by the term "Greek", synonymous with crook or rogue, the author teaches the art of winning at all games. "I therefore composed this work, the purpose and morality of which can be summed up in this incontestable truth: Enlighten the dupes, there will be no more rogues." Catalogue of Books on Conjuring and the Allied Arts, with Some Posters and Apparatus including Works by Harry Elackstone, Henri Decremps, David Devant, Will Goldston, Professor Hoffmann, Harry Houdini, the Maskelynes, Robert-Houdin, A. He is considered one of the greatest conjurers of all time, responsible for almost all of the "great tricks" in magic today. New edition of this treatise on cheating in card games, first published in 1861, with illustrated explanatory figures, in black, in text.īook published by the most famous French illusionist of the 19th century, nicknamed the "father of modern magic", Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-1871).
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