Hardin Jasper Burlingame (1852–1915) was an American magician and magic historian.Millstein, Denise Tischler. (2010). Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Routledge. p. 166.
Burlingame had taken lessons from the magician David Tobias Bamberg. He later used the stage name "Jasper Bamberg" when he performed in Chicago.Christopher, Milbourne. (1990 edition, originally published in 1962). Magic: A Picture History. Dover Publications. p. 179.
Burlingame is most well known for his book Hermann the Magician (1897), a biography of the magician Alexander Herrmann.Claflin, Edward; Sheridan, Jeff. (1977). Street Magic: An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their Conjuring Arts. Dolphin Books. p. 147.
He also wrote a biography of Baron Hartwig Seeman, a noted Swedish magician.Siegel, Lee. (1991). Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 212.
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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