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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Unused. A few light scratches on cover otherwise fine.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. 4to. Original sun stained blue cloth binding attached to the rebound orange cloth. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Black end pages. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1350grams, ISBN:

Zustand: As New.

Zustand: Very good.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Blue hardback binding; firm and square, just lightly rubbed with mildly bumped extremities; contents sound and clean with no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. A very good copy.

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.

First English edition. First English edition. xix, [i, errata], 397, 3 (publisher's ads) pp. 8vo. The first English edition of this quite unusual and very entertaining compendium of conundrums, problems, parlor tricks, and "interesting facts" - it is actually much more fun than the title would seem to suggest. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d' amusements physiques et mathématiques. The work includes tricks with cards, magic squares, magic lanterns, feats of artificial memory, and proto-spiritualist conjuring through "palingenesy," by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar, plus other optical illusions. A large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities, including chapters on arithmetic ("To arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them, &c.", "A lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughter") and amusing "secrets" ("To make people in a room have a hideous appearance"). Toole Stott 240 Contemporary half leather over gray paper-covered boards. Covers worn, joints cracked but sewing sound, lacking spine label, text block roughly trimmed, occasional light soiling along lower blank margins. Remnant of contemporary bookplate. In a custom redpaper slipcase and matching chemise xix, [i, errata], 397, 3 (publisher's ads) pp. 8vo.