@article{533141,
      note = {Originally published in 1651 as 'A rich cabinet, with  variety of inventions'.},
      author = {White, John,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/533141},
      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. To teach  Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done  by the Loadstone. 8. To catch kites, crows, Mogpies,  &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a  Pack of Cards, and not see them. 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 when you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To fox  Fish and Fowle. 17. To make one Candle out outlast three:  18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent  Plaistering for Ceilings or Wolls. With many other Natural  and Artificial Conclusions, affording great Variety of  Innocent Sport and pastime. - Adorn'd with above AC curious  Cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and ingenuity .  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Sold at the Ring in Little Britain, pr. 1s. as also Hill's  Legerdemain, and Arts Treasury,},
      recid = {533141},
      pages = {96p. :},
      address = {[London] :},
      year = {1715},
}