La magie blanche dévoilée
By: par Décremps et Sharp, professeurs de physique amusante.
Contributors: Soo, Chung Ling, 1861-1918, inscriber.; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Delarue; Chez Blocquel-Castiaux
Place of publication: Paris; Lille
Language: fre
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Pinetti, Giuseppe, -- 1750-1800; Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800; Scientific recreations -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Early works to 1800; Handbooks, manuals, etc
Work titles: Magie blanche dévoilée.
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.

"Recueil de tours d'adresse, de cartes et d'escamotage, de subtilités ingénieuses, de récréations mathématiques, d'expériences tirées de la physique et de la chimie, etc., etc."

LC copy has inscriptions:  W.E. Robinson.
Table of contents: title: Tours divertissants; title: Récréations mathématiques, subtilités ingénieuses, etc.; title: Amusements de physique, de chimie, etc.; title: Les tours de cartes les plus amusants.