La magie blanche dévoilée, ou, Explication des tours surprenans qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale [et] de la province
Subtitle: avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joueurs d'échecs, &c., &c.
By: par M. Decremps.
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress); McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez F.J. Desoer ...
Published: 1789
Place of publication: A Paris, et se trouve à Liége
Language: fre
Subjects: Pinetti, Giuseppe, -- 1750-1800; Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800; Tricks -- Early works to 1800; Juggling -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Magie blanche dévoilée; Explication des tours surprenans qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale et de la province
Notes: "... Decremps wrote and published a series of books purportedly to expose all the tricks of [Giuseppe] Pinetti. The first book, La Magie Blanche, appeared in Paris while Pinetti was still playing there in 1784.  The first book was followed by Supplement a la Magie Blanche Devoilee, Testament de Jerome Sharp, Codicille de Jerome Sharp, and others. ... they did have a devastating effect on Pinetti as well as on other practitioners of the mystic art, despite the fact that Decremp's explanations were largely guesswork. ..."  D. Price. Magic, 1985, p. 40 ff.

Each v. originally published separately, 1784, 1785, 1786, and 1788 respectively.

Vol. 1: viij, 118, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: viij, 270, [2] p. [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: xvj, 262, [2] p.; v. 4: [4], 244 p., [2] folded leaves of plates (tables).

LC copy of v. 4 has inscription: Harry Houdini, Amsterdam, 1903.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  La magie blanche dévoilée ...; title: v. 2. Supplément a La magie blanche dévoilée ...; title: v. 3. Testament de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante ...; title: v. 4. Codicile de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante ...