Experiments.- Sequel (A) to the Endless Amusement, Containing nearly Four Hundred Interesting Experiments In Various Branches of Science...Recreations with Cards..., extending folding engraved frontispiece with multiple images, some illustrations, ink ownership inscription to head of title, occasional spotting, mainly to margins, uncut in original printed boards, browned, some light staining, wear to extremities with some loss to backstrip, [Toole Stott 623], for Thomas Boys and Thorp & Burch, [1825]; and the 2 vol. fourth corrected edition of Hooper's Rational Recreations (1802), 12mo & small 8vo (3)
⁂ Experiments including "To give a Person a supernatural Appearance"; "To make a Room seem on Fire", "The Magic Telescope"; "Wonderful Apparitions of various Objects"; "Curious Optical Deception" and many others.
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