Magic & Conjuring.- Houdini (Harry).- Maggi (Girolamo) De tintinnabulis liber postumus...de equuleo liber, engraved additional pictorial title, title in red and black, 21 engraved plates or full-page illustrations, 3 folding, old ink signature to title and with manuscript note to front free endpaper, Harry Houdini's copy with pencil note by James Steven Cox "From Harry Houdini's collection bought 1930 in USA JSC" on front pastedown and old typed bookseller's slip priced $7.50 and annotated in pencil "Bought from Ted Pullman 1930 USA JSCox" tipped in at beginning, contemporary calf, spine gilt, marbled edges, rubbed, slight wear to corners and foot of spine, worming to foot of lower joint, 12mo, Amsterdam, H. Wetstein, 1689.

⁂ The author was a military engineer who was captured by the Turks in 1571 while working on fortifications at the fortress of Famagouste in Cyprus. While in prison in Constantinople he wrote these two treatises, one on bells, the other on torture. It is intriguing to speculate on which subject particularly interested Houdini.