Breslaw's last legacy : or the magical companion: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining and comical; selected from the most celebrated masters of deception: as well with slight of hand, as with mathematical inventions. Wherein is displayed the mode and manner of deceiving the eye; as practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur, Comus, Jonas, &c. Also The Interpretation Of Dreams, Signification Of Moles, Palmestry, &c. The whole forming A Book of real Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. With an accurate Description of the Method how to make The Air Balloon, And Inject The Inflammable Air.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balloons--Early works to 1800.

Balloons.

Magic tricks--Early works to 1800.

Magic tricks.

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered pages,x-xii,144 pages ; 12⁰

Edition:

A new edition, with great additions and improvements.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Lane, Leadenhall-Street, M,DCC,XCV. [1795]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

May have been compiled by Philip Breslaw.

Includes: 'Prospectus of the Minerva Literary Museum, or Novel Repository' (pp.[3]-[4]), the second page of which is numbered 2, and 'Lives of eminent magicians, &c.' (pp.97-120).

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N15553.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.