@article{529550,
      recid = {529550},
      author = {White, John,},
      title = {Hocus pocus or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities,  natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to  cleave money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or  Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a Glass. 4.  To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To  make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. Teach  Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done  by the Loadstone. 8. To catch Kites, Crows, Magpies,  &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a  Pack of Cards, and not feel 'em. 11. To write Love-Letters  secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry,  Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To  keep Fowl, Venison, or any Flesh sweet a month. 15. To make  a Drink you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To sox Fish  and Fowl. 17. To make one Candle outlast three. 18. To  preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent  plaistering for Ceilings or Walls. With many other Natural  and Artificial Conclusions, affording great variety of  innocent Sport and Pastime. Adorn'd with above 40 curious  cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and Ingenuity.  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Sold at the Ring in Little-Britain [by George Conyers] pr.  1 s. as also Hill's Legerdemain, and Arts Treasury. Price  each 1 s. A thousand notable Things, The way to Save  Wealth, and The way to Get Wealth, 1 s. 6d. each: Sports  and Pastime. 6 d.,},
      address = {[London] :},
      pages = {72p. :},
      year = {1715},
      note = {With an advertisement on the verso of the titlepage for  books sold by G. C., i.e. George Conyers.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/529550},
}