$300
Hutton, Charles (trans. ), M.L. Despiau. Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, by W. Glendinning, 1801. Contemporary marbled boards, crudely re-covered with later thick cloth spine. 8vo. p. [i-v] vi-xix [xx], [1] 2 – 397, +1 – 3 (advts.). Leaves with a few short tears, ownership signature on flyleaf, occasional light marginalia in pencil. Toole Stott 240. 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.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31
