Het verbeterd en vermeerderd natuurlyk toover-boek of 't nieuw speel-toneel der konsten: verhandelende ontrent sestien hondert natuurlijke tover-konsten, soo uyt de goochel-tas, als kaart-speelen, mathematische konsten, ook de verligt-teikenkunde en afsetten van bloemen, en meer andere diergelijke aardigheden, die tot vermaak en tijdkorting verstrekken

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Witgeest, Simon

Publisher

• Publication

  t' Amstelredam: by Jan ten Hoorn, 1701

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1701

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    schilderkunst
  • As subject 

    cultuurgeschiedenis
  • As subject 

    medicines (material)
  • As subject 

    recepturen
  • As subject 

    technieken (kunst)
  • As subject 

    vuurwerk
  • As subject 

    goocheltrucs

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    Dutch

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Incompleet: Franse titel en p. 177-178, 225-226, 459-461 ontbreken
  • The most popular Dutch conjuring book of the 17th and 18th century. It was republished many times, amusing generations of children as well as adults at home and at parties. On long winter evenings families and parties amused themselves with the help of the book, trying the various tricks and games. Landwehr ascribes the book to Willem Goeree, who first published the book at Middelburg in 1679. Goeree probably chose the pseudonym Witgeest (Whiteghost) as a guarantee that the book contained white rather than black magic. The section on drawing and colouring in Het Natuurlijk Toverboek, was taken from Goeree's Inleydinge tot de Algemeene Teyken-Konst (1668).

Online resources

• STCN-record

Persistent URL

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• https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/300143776