John Badcock — Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements

T. Hughes London Early Edition Very Good Condition 15cm x 9cm. xv, 200 pages, colour folding frontispiece. Quarter cloth, papered boards, paper label. A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77. Aged rebacked quarter cloth. Creasing to front free endpaper Frontispiece with a few very marginal creases to fore-edge, a very small chip to top edge, and some very minor soiling. Occasional minor foxing and corner crease. Category: Science, Trade & Industry; Performing Arts::Stage Magic & Mentalism; 19th Century: 1801-1850; Inventory No: 0035958.