1808 GALE'S CABINET OF KNOWLEDGE - SCIENCE MAGIC TRICKS ILLUSIONS MESMERISM

GALE'S CABINET OF KNOWLEDGE OR MISCELLANEOUS RECREATIONS   Book Details + Condition: Printed by J.W.H. Payne (Norwich, UK), 1808. Scarce. Hardcover. 363 pages. Three-quarters leather binding with marbled boards. Unusual book containing chapters on a variety of subjects, including earth science and astronomy, morality and religion, card tricks and magic, optical illusions, magnetism, and more. Subtitled "containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility: with a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments; including the most celebrated card deceptions; together with about seven hundred serious, comic, and humorous queries, paradoxes, &c. with pertinent and ingenious answers; comprising the essence of the Lady's, Gentleman's, and Carnan's Diaries: Ozanam and Hooper's Recreations; Martin's Philosophical magazines, &c. Illustrated with co