Le livre magique
Subtitle: tombé de la lune 1500 ans avant la création du monde et retrouvé en 1848
Publisher: Chez MM. Dembour et Gangel; Chez Basset
Published: 1848
Place of publication: A Metz; Se trouve à Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Tricks; Magic tricks; Equipment and supplies; Specimens; Toy and movable books
Notes: A conjurer's blow-book with 17 different hand-colored full page illustrations, 16 of which are repeated 7 times, one 14 times. Each picture can be made to appear or vanish by flipping the pages in various ways.

T.p. present both at front (p. [1-2])--and back (p. [143-144]).

Engraved throughout.

Includes pictures of a Chinaman, a bouquet of flowers, a woman, a man, a castle, a church, three birds, two birds, a nun and a boy, an nun and a girl, a monk reading, a monk digging, two pages of six small vignettes each, and a Chinese woman.

Gumuchian, 3850