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Mémoires : récréatifs, scientifiques et anecdotiques

Robertson, E. G. (Etienne Gaspard), 1763-1831, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · 1831 · Paris : Chez l'auteur et à la Librairie de Wurtz, 1831-1833. · 32 pictures

Mémoires: récréatifs, scientifiques et anecdotiques is a 1831 French memoir by the showman and balloonist Étienne-Gaspard Robertson, published in Paris by Wurtz for a general reading public. Its woodcut diagrams show optical and magic-lantern apparatus, with figures in period dress set against stage-like rooms, offering a designer clear, schematic line drawings of 1830s spectacle and the mechanics of illusion.

19th Century · Balloonists · Balloons · Biographies · Biography · Etienne gaspard) · France · Magic tricks · Magicians · Robertson, e. g

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