1. (Acrobatics) | A group of six items

2. (Acrobatics) | A charming tabletop game featuring a moving trapeze artist

3. Ady, Thomas | A far more serious approach to debunking witchcraft than the witch skit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

4. Ady, Thomas | Debunking witchcraft redux

5. (Ætherscope) | "The Greatest Success Ever Known in This Town"

6. Agoust, Henri | The masters of "Restaurant Juggling"

7. Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius | A skeptical view of the arts and sciences

8. Alberti, Giuseppe Francesco Antonio | Fun with numbers and dexterous card tricks

9. Allarty, Blanche | Midnight at the oasis

10. Alt, Al | The inspiration for Ricky Jay Plays Poker

11. Anderson, George | A striking oversized poster advertising "The Living Skeleton"

12. Anderson, John Henry (The Great Wizard of the North) | "… the most Wonderful Feat ever attempted by living Man … the Gun Delusion!"

13. Anderson, John Henry (The Great Wizard of the North) | An ornate playbill for "The Great Wizard of the North"

14. Anderson, John Henry (The Great Wizard of the North) | A striking portrait

15. Andress, Charles | According to Kellar, "The Last of the Old Masters in Magic"

16. (Animals, Exotic) | Exhibition of exotic animals, mostly reptilian, and free lessons with the purchase of a magical instrument

17. (Animals, Performing) | Performing quadrupeds, bipeds, and winged creatures

18. (Animals, Performing) | Performing horses, deer, elephant, and dogs

19. (Animals, Performing) | Performing horses, deer, elephant, and dogs

20. (Aquatic, Exotic Exhibitions) | A group of seven handbills and broadsides

21. (Aquatic Fair) | Water works

22. Aretino, Pietro | Translates literally as Dialogue by Pietro Aretino in which the game is spoke of with pleasant morality

23. Astley, Philip | "new Exercises, On several Horses which no other Horseman in the World can perform"

24. [Astley, John Conway Philip] | A slip song with lyrics composed by Philip Astley

25. Astley, Philip | The final performance of Astley's "Wonderful Little Horse"

26. (Automata) | Marvelous marchines

27. (Automata) | Automata, spectres, and beheadings

28. (Automata) | Early American playbill for an automata musicians

29. (Automata) | A group of broadsides for "extraordinary curiosities"

30. (Automata) | Six works on "Superb and Magnificent Pieces of Mechanism"

31. (Automata) | "Magnificent Exhibitions"

32. (Automata) | "Mechanical Figures, As Large as Life, Moving and Working by Machinery"

33. (Automaton Card Tricks) | Mr. Lane—fairground showman, and "First Conjurer to the King"

34. (Automata, Chess) | " ... it can be but an illusion ... But in what consists the illusion? There is the Gordian knot"

35. (Automaton Chess-Player) | The first great "cabinet trick"

36. (Automaton Chess-Player) | Maelzel's mysterious mechanism

37. (Automaton Chess Player) | It even speaks French

38. (Automata) | Including a "Great War" and a "Representation of Nature, in one of her most Tremendous Aspects"

39. (Automata, Musical) | Flute-playing automata

40. Hottentot Venus (Sarah "Saartjie" Baartmann) | A "Wonderful Living Production of Nature"

41. [Babcock, John] | A cockney-inspired lexicon

42. [Bacon, Roger and Thomas Bungay] | The exploits of "Doctor Mirabilis"

43. Signor Bagonghi (Giuseppe Bignoli) | The Bignoli that made Bagonghi famous

44. Bailey, Robert | A notorious gambler, reformed

45. Mr. Baldwin | The unrivalled American magician

46. Baldwin, Samri S., & Miss Baldwin (Samuel Spencer Baldwin & Kitty Baldwin) | Where are my pants?

47. "Clown" Barker & Miss Rozsika | Animal comedians

48. Barnum, P. T. | "Three Dozen Reasons Among Thirty-Six Thousand" to visit Barnum's fair