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L'Ancienne et la Nouvelle Collection des Tours de Magie by M Lecomte, 1860
 
'L'Ancienne et la Nouvelle Collection des Tours de Magie' by M Lecomte was published by S Borneman in Paris in 1860. I am grateful to Edwin Corrie for bringing this work to my attention.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Analysis

Le Trouble-Esprit - Troublewit

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The Card Puzzle

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Le Tour des Cerises - The Cherries Puzzle

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Tour des Cerises (2) - A version of the Three Pieces Puzzle using cherries

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Another subtlety - Halving 9 and 13

Roughly translated this reads, 'By betting that half of 9 is 4 and half of 13 is 8 you are necessarily putting a good number of betters against you, but you win easily by proving it in the following way ... All the finesse consists in writing the numbers as above and folding them along the dotted line.'

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