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Minguet é Irol, Pablo | Conjuring tricks and other entertainments en español

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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Minguet é Irol, Pablo

Engaños a ojos vistas, y diversion de trabajos mundanos, fundada en licitos juegos de manos. Madrid: Pedro Joseph Alonso y Padilla, 1733


Small 8vo (146 x 102 mm). Woodcut frontispiece of a magician performing with cups and balls, 37 woodcut text illustrations; short tear to top margin of E8 touching 3–4 text lines and to bottom margin of terminal leaf touching 2 text lines. Contemporary mottled calf, decorative paper over original spine, blue endpapers; loss to foot of spine, lacking free endpapers.


An early edition of the first Spanish conjuring book. The full title translates as "Visible deceits, and diversion of worldly works, founded on legal conjurings; That contains all the differences of the Tumblers, and other very peculiar tricks, demonstrated in different illustrations, so that you can easily entertain others."

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