Jean‑Eugène Robert‑Houdin
Les Secrets de la prestidigitation et de la magie
Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1868.
A very rare first edition of the masterwork by Robert-Houdin, illustrated with numerous engravings, and known as the “father of modern magic”: Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin is regarded as one of the greatest magicians of all time, the originator of almost all the “great tricks” of modern conjuring. A clockmaker like his father and a prolific inventor,…
