Trost Collection. Title page reads: The Magician's Own Book, Or The Whole Art Of Conjuring, Being A Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic and Containing over 1,000 Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical and Magical Experiments, Amusing Transmutations, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks With Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles,Together with all the most noted Tricks of Modern Performer's The Whole Illustrated with over 500 Wood Cuts and Intended as a source of Amusement for One Thousand and One Evenings.
1862, pictorial, cloth bound, gilt stamping, 362 pages with over 500 wood cut illustrations. You should certainly enjoy your trip back in time seeing the variety of period offerings within.
Some wear to cover edges with 2” separation of backstrip from front cover, rear flyleaf tear with absence, previous owner's name in pencil, soil to page edges. Condition good.