SELECT AMUSEMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS; Proper for Agreeably Exercising the Minds of Youth.

DESPIAU, L.

Published by London for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow, 1801

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TITLE CONTINUED: Translated from the French with Several Corrections and Additions, Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds at Play, the whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools, translated by Dr Hutton. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1801. 12mo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, pages: xix, [1] -Errata, 1-397, plus 3 pages of adverts, bound in full marbled calf with gilt rules to spine, gilt decoration to edges of covers, lacks title label. Small chip to head of spine, vertical creasing to spine, corners slightly bumped, a few pale small stains to endpapers, page 396 misnumbered 936. A very good clean tight copy. See: Raymond Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876, page 92, No. 240; Trevor H. Hall, A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English, page 40, No. 114; Trevor Hall, Old Conjuring Books, pages 159-161; The book contains a large selection of mathematical and physical tricks and phenomena. The mathematical tricks include magic squares and mind reading, many with cards, the physical tricks include effects with sympathetic inks and other inks, and experiments with chemistry and magnets: To tell two or more numbers which a person has thought of; Three cards being presented to three persons; to guess that which each has chosen; To make people in a room have a hideous appearance; To make an artificial volcano; To make a phantom appear on a pedestal, placed on a table. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SELECT AMUSEMENTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS; Proper for Agreeably Exercising the Minds of Youth.
• Publisher: London for G. Kearsley Fleet Street; Bell and Bradfute Edinburgh; and Brash and Reid Glasgow
• Publication Date: 1801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good