Roterberg, August: Latter Day Tricks
©1896 A. Roterberg, Self-Published, Chicago, IL
Hardcover, no dj, 108 pages plus ads

Roterberg: Latter Day Tricks
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Comments (Lybrary.com): This book is the continuation of The Modern Wizard; same format almost same number of pages and same style. For example the 'handkerchief productions' are continued with methods twelve, thirteen fourteen, fifteen and sixteen. You will find many interesting plots with eggs, glasses, coins, silks, tubes, plates, flowers, nest of boxes, ...

Note: Available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com

Contents (from book, updated slightly Jan 2018):

3 Preface

5 Robinson's Flying Handkerchiefs
9 The Improved Soup Plate and Handkerchief Trick
10 - First Method
10 - Second Method
11 - Third Method
12 - Fourth Method
13 The Four Soup Plates and Handkerchiefs
15 The Handkerchief Coloring Trick
16 Handkerchief Productions, Continued from "The Modern Wizard"
16 - Twelfth Method
17 - Thirteenth Method
18 - Fourteenth Method
19 - Fifteenth Method
20 - Sixteenth Method
21 The Chameleon Handkerchiefs
23 The New Gordian Knots
24 - Second Method
25 The Vanishing Handkerchief
26 The Three Colored Handkerchief
27 The New Torn and Restored Handkerchief
28 Handkerchief and Envelope
29 The Handkerchief Produced from a Card
29 The Newest Billiard Ball Trick
32 The Fairy Tube and Ball
33 - First Method
34 - Second Method
35 - Third Method
37 The New Glass Vase and Appearing Balls
38 Handkerchief, Lemon and Glass
41 The New Egg and Handkerchief Trick
42 The New Vanishing Eggs
44 The Disappearing Egg
45 The Balanced Eggs
45 - First Method
46 - Second Method
47 The Vanishing Coin Tube
49 Coins, Hat, Plate and Glass
51 The Hat, Glass and Coins
52 Wine Instead of Flowers
53 Wine, Handkerchief and Bottle
55 The New Flying Glass of Water
57 The Glass Cylinder and Water Trick
59 The Bewitched Decanter
61 The Die and Flowers
63 The Soup Plate and Flowers
63 - First Method
64 - Second Method
66 The Color Changing Rose
66 - First Method
67 - Second Method
67 The Bewitched Wand
70 The Magical Oil Painting
71 The Broken and Mended Wine Glass
73 The New Writing Hand
75 Robinson's Ring and Potato Trick
76 The Chameleon Paper Shavings
76 - First Method
77 - Second Method
78 - Third Method
80 Paper Shavings Changed into BonBons
81 The Unlucky Hat
83 The Disappearing Gold Fish
84 The Wand and Flying Rings
85 Invisible Journey of Two Canaries
86 The Hypnotised Cane
88 The New Nest of Boxes
91 Ice Cream Made in a Borrowed Hat
93 Coins and Plate
94 Coin and Sword
95 The Spirit Envelope
97 The New Colored Sand Trick
97 First Method
98 Second Method
99 The Candy Bag, Watch and Handkerchief
101 The Floating Ball of Paper

106 List of Contents
109 Advertisements


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