1862 Bar Tender's Guide price $1.50 by Jerry Thomas

The Secret Out; OR, L'OOO TRICKS WITH CARDS AKD OTHER RECREATMS. II/IiUSTRATED WITH OVER 300 ENGRAVTXGS. And containing clear and comprehensive osplanations how to perform witi ease all the Curious Card Deceptions and Sleight-of-Hand Triclca extant. With an endless variety of Entertaining Experiments in Dramng-Room, or "N^ite Magic,including the celebrated Science of Second Sight. Together with a choice collection ofIntricate and Puzzling Questions. Amusements in Chance,Natural Magic,etc.,etc., etc. iy the Author of"The Sociable," "The Ma^ciau's Own Book,""Parlor Theatricals," etc. Large\1mo. Cloth, Gilt Side and Back. Price One Dollar. A Book which c.xpl.iins nil tho Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards,over known or invented,tind gives, besides,a great many now and interesting ones—the whole being described so accurately and carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can o.nsily lonrn how to pr.tctiso thcsT Tricks. This book contains,in addition to its numerous C.ard Tricks almve desoribed,fulland easily understood explanations ofsome Two Hrindrccl and Forty ofthe most Curious,Amusing &Interesting Sleight-of-Hand &legerdemain Tricks Ever invented,and which areillnstrated with Engravings to makeeach trick tinder- stood with case. TheMagician'sOwnBook OB, THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING. Being a Complete Hnnd-Book of Parlor M.agic,containing overOne Thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical,_ Maguetical, and Magical Fvpcriments, Amusing Transmutations,AstonLshing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions,Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles—together with all the most Noted Tricks of ModernPerformers. The whole Illustrated with over 500"Wood Cuts, And intended as a source of Amusement for ONE THOTTSAND AND ONE EVENINGS. 12mo,cloth,400 pages,gilt side and back stamp; Price ONEDOXiAB, sentfree ofpostage. Hero is a book for tho long winter evenings,and one that will roako all meiry and happy. It contains over a THOUSAND TRICKS,of every descriptionf and they are all explained so cl0arandoxpiicitlv,1hnt.nnv person cancomprehend and perform them with ease. It aiso contaiea numerous CURIOUS PUZZLES,with patterns showing how they are done,anyoneofwhich will alTord amusoinent enough for awhole evening. Copies sent to any address freo ofpostage. Send Cash Orders to DICK & riTZGERAIiD, 18 ANN STREET, NEW YORK.