Hocus Pocus, or The Whole Art of Legerdemain

A conjuring book reprinted again and again through the 18th century: the cups and balls, coin, card and ball tricks of the period, with the patter and woodcut illustrations. This scan is a later Glasgow edition.

Henry Dean, 1722. Complete 120-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.