or a full explanation of the principal and most interesting performances of legerdemain as exhibited by Monsieur Adrian and other performers, which of late has excited so much curiosity in the public mind, in Philadelphia and other cities of the United States and elsewhere. With amusing dialogues and original and true Yankee stories.
- GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY THE PERFORMER
- PREFACE
- EXPERIMENT NO. 1. To make a person disappear in a sack.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 2. To produce oranges or apples apparently in an empty box.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 3. To change a glove into sugar plums.
- EXPERIMENT No. 4. To change a handkerchief into a wig.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 5. To make a piece of money which is put into a box that is locked fall into a tumbler standing a yard off.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 6. To change apples into sugar-plums.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 7. To pass a square block of wood through one hat into another.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 8. To kindle a blaze under water.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 9. To pass dollars from one vase into another, and produce a ball in their place.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 10. To pass a piece of money from one handkerchief into another, deposited in a box.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 11. To make a piece of money held in the hand disappear.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 12. To make an Egg Dance.
- EXPERIMENT NO 13. To order an Automaton to furnish something for the Company.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 14. To pass a handkerchief from a box into a vase, and back again.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 15. To change coffee into tea, and tea into coffee, or other articles substituted instead.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 16. To change pease into hot coffee, already prepared, &c.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 17. To transform a pie into almonds and raisins.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 18. To make dollars pass through a china plate and table, and fall into the hand, producing a ball in their place.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 19. To make dollars pass through a wine-glass, a china plate, a table, and fall into the hand.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 20. To light a lamp with a piece of ice.
- EXPERIMENT No. 21. To pass a block of wood through the table.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 22. To produce a figure instead of a block of wood.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 23. To change cards from one box to another.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 24. To tell, without any confederate, when a ring is given, without your knowledge of the transfer, to a person, in a large company who has the ring, on which hand and finger and part of the finger it is on.
- EXPERIMENT No. 25. To make a borrowed handkerchief appear and disappear in the wonderful globe, at various places named by the audience, without the agency of any accomplice.
- EXPERIMENT No. 26. To tell a figure that is privately marked in the product of a sum unknown to the performer.
- EXPERIMENT No. 27. To produce a live pigeon from a box, instead of a glove, and that again from a drawer which had been pronounced to be empty.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 28. To pour wine, vinegar and water out of the same bottle.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 29. To eat a burning candle.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 30. To pass a handkerchief into a loaf of bread.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 31. To pass a handkerchief into a bottle of wine.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 32. To produce a number of American Banners from a pedestal.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 33. The Fortune-Teller.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 34. To shoot a live canary bird from a pistol and produce it again unhurt inside of various articles.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 35. To produce a number of small bouquets from an empty flower-pot.
- EXPERIMENT NO. 36. To produce a live rabbit and a number of other articles from a gentleman's hat.
1st edition 1836, 90 pages; PDF 44 pages.
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