Etienne Ducret

Traité complet des tours d'escamotage anciens et nouveaux

Theodore Lefèvre et C., Paris 1885.

G.W. Kirbye

Kirbye's original second-sight mystery and pretended clairvoyance exposed 

P.F. Harris Publisher, New York 1885.

Gaston Tissandier

Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry

Ward, Lock and Co., New York 1885.