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Breslaw's last legacy, or The magical companion [electronic resource] : Containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining, and comical; selected from the most celebrated masters of decepton: as well with slight of hand, as with mathematical inventions, where are displayed the make and manner of deceiving the eye as practiced by those celebrated masters of masterful deception. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, &c. Also the interpretation of dreams, signification of moles, palmistry, &c, with a selection of the newest songs sung this season at Woodhill and other places of public entertainment: like riddles, epigrams, and bon mote. The whole forming a book of real knowledge in the art of conjuration. With an added description of the method how to make the air balloon and inject the inflammable air.

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Format:
Book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Magic tricks--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Magic tricks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (132p. )
Edition:
The sixth edition, with great additions and improvements.
Other Title:
Breslaw's last legacy, or The magical companion
Place of Publication:
Dublin : Printed for J. Rice, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
Notes:
May have been compiled by Philip Breslaw.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, N31954.
OCLC:
508129877

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