H. J. Burlingame

Hardin Jasper Burlingame (1852–1915) was an American magician and magic historian.[1]

H. J. Burlingame

Burlingame had taken lessons from the magician David Tobias Bamberg. He later used the stage name "Jasper Bamberg" when he performed in Chicago.[2]

Burlingame is most well known for his book Hermann the Magician (1897), a biography of the magician Alexander Herrmann.[3]

He also wrote a biography of Baron Hartwig Seeman, a noted Swedish magician.[4]

Publications

Tricks in Magic, Illusions, and Mental Phenomena (1895)
Herrmann the Great: The Famous Magician's Wonderful Tricks (1897). Reprinted as Herrmann the Magician: His Life, His Secrets (1897)
How To Read People's Minds (1905)
Around the World With a Magician and a Juggler (1891)
Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap books: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works (1891)
History of Magic and Magicians (1895)
Magician's Handbook: Tricks and Secrets of the World's Greatest Magician, Herrmann the Great (1942)

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References

Millstein, Denise Tischler. (2010). Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-0754668886
Christopher, Milbourne. (1990 edition, originally published in 1962). Magic: A Picture History. Dover Publications. p. 179. ISBN 0-486-26373-8
Claflin, Edward; Sheridan, Jeff. (1977). Street Magic: An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their Conjuring Arts. Dolphin Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0385128643
Siegel, Lee. (1991). Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0226756875

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[1] Millstein, Denise Tischler. (2010). Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Routledge. p. 166. ISBN 978-0754668886

[2] Christopher, Milbourne. (1990 edition, originally published in 1962). Magic: A Picture History. Dover Publications. p. 179. ISBN 0-486-26373-8

[3] Claflin, Edward; Sheridan, Jeff. (1977). Street Magic: An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their Conjuring Arts. Dolphin Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-0385128643

[4] Siegel, Lee. (1991). Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0226756875