Breslaw's last legacy [electronic resource] : or the magical companion: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining and comical; selected from the most celebrated masters of deception: as well with slight of hand, as with mathematical inventions. Wherein is displayed the mode and manner of deceiving the eye; as practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur, Comus, Jonas, &c. Also The Interpretation Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmestry, &c. The whole forming A Book of real Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of the Method how to make The Air Balloon, And Inject The Inflammable Air.
1795
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Breslaw's last legacy [electronic resource] : or the magical companion: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining and comical; selected from the most celebrated masters of deception: as well with slight of hand, as with mathematical inventions. Wherein is displayed the mode and manner of deceiving the eye; as practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur, Comus, Jonas, &c. Also The Interpretation Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmestry, &c. The whole forming A Book of real Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of the Method how to make The Air Balloon, And Inject The Inflammable Air.
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A new edition, with great additions and improvements.
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London : printed for W. Lane, Leadenhall-Street, M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
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[7],x-xii,144p. ; 12⁰.
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May have been compiled by Philip Breslaw.
Includes: 'Prospectus of the Minerva Literary Museum, or Novel Repository' (pp.[3]-[4]), the second page of which is numbered 2, and 'Lives of eminent magicians, &c.' (pp.97-120).
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
Includes: 'Prospectus of the Minerva Literary Museum, or Novel Repository' (pp.[3]-[4]), the second page of which is numbered 2, and 'Lives of eminent magicians, &c.' (pp.97-120).
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, N15553.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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