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Codicile de Jérome Sharp, professeur de physique amusante; où l'on trouve, parmi plusieurs tours dont il n'est point parlé dans son testament, diverses récréations relatives aux sciences & beaux-arts. Pour servir de troisième suite à la Magie blanche dévoilée

Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1791 · A Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1791. · 66 pictures

A French book of parlour magic and scientific amusements by Henri Decremps, published in Paris in 1791 by F.J. Desoer as a supplement to his Magie blanche dévoilée, and intended for general readers curious about tricks and experiments. The pictures are small numbered plates of lettered geometric and mechanical diagrams, such as circles with marked points, a lever-and-pulley apparatus, and a shaded disc, giving a designer clean schematic linework with numbered labels as a graphic motif.

Early works to 1800 · Magic tricks

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