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Conjuring, Mathematical Games and Magic 30 DECREMPS, Henri. La Magie Blanche Dévoilée, ou explication des Tours surprenans qui sont depuis peu l’admiration de la Capitale & de la Province. Avec des réXexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les Automates joueurs de’Echecs. Paris, F. J. Desoer, 1789. [Bound with:] Supplément a la Magie Blanche Dévoilée. Paris, F. J. Desoer, 1789. [Bound with:] Testament de Jérome Sharp. Paris, F. J. Desoer, 1789. [Bound with:] Les Petites Aventures de Jérome Sharp. Brusselles, F. J. Desoer, 1790. £2400 Four volumes bound in two, 8vo, frontispiece, pp. viii, 118; viii, 270, [1] approbation, with engraved frontispiece bound in; xvi, 262 [1], woodcut music bound as frontispiece; xii, 266, frontispiece as part of collation; all four volumes with frontispiece, numerous woodcut Wgures in the text, some full page, including printed music; contemporary full mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt in compartments, two contrasting gilt-lettered spine labels; gilding a little faded, paper shelf marks to foot of spine, and in crayon to front free endpaper; a Wne set from the library of Freiherr von Wrede Melschede with oblong stamps to margin of title. A very attractive collected edition of the most important works on conjuring, mathematical games and scientiWc recreations by Henri Decremps, a mathematician and avid conjurer, who attempted to explain magical phenomena rationally as trickery or sleight of hand. In the eighteenth century scientiWc discovery and the belief in magic and occult phenomena mixed uneasily. Everything had to be explained scientiWcally, and Decremps was on the forefront of attempting to debunk ‘magic’. Of particular interest are his descriptions of tricks and illusions, based on magnetism, electricity, geometry, perspective, optics, with illustrations of speciWc tricks. He describes a wide array of automatons and machinery, for the performance of marvels, which according to the author were attributable to magnets, concealed canaries and other devices. Some of Decremps’ ‘scientiWc explanations’ and mathematics, were later revealed to be fanciful themselves, as was pointed out by Fiard. Some of Decremps’ works were written under the Wctional guise of Prof. Jérome Sharpe. The works proved immensely popular both in France, and in England, where La Magie Blanche Dévoilée was published under the title The Conjurer Unmasked in the translation of Thomas Denton. See Caillet 2861 (Magie Blanche, Wrst edition 1784–5), Caillet 2862 (Testament de Jerome Sharp, Wrst edition 1786), Caillet 2864 (Petites Aventures, Wrst edition 1789). susanne schulz-falster rare books
With the Arms of the Altieri Family 31 DORIA, Luigi Romano. Elementi della Coltivazione de’ Grani ad uso dell’Agro Romano. Rome, Salomoni, 1777. £2950 8vo, pp. xvi (imprimatur leaf misbound), 236, Wve engraved plates (three folding) bound at the end; title printed in red and blue, with portrait medallion of Pope Pius VI and a medallion showing an overXowing grain vat surrounded by the words ‘spes publica’; bound in contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt in six compartments, giltlettered spine label, sides gold-tooled with outer roll border, corner ornaments built up from individual tools including leafy sprays, small stars, blossoms and Xower tools; a.e.g., Italian pattern paper endpapers, bookplate removed from front paste-down; repair to upper compartment of spine, else a Wne copy. First edition, rare, of this attractively illustrated reform proposal for Roman agriculture in a Wne binding. Doria begins with advice on the assessment of diVerent types and qualities of soil and prospective harvests, which need to be taken into account when assessing the viability of estates and their leases. This is followed by detailed advice on the whole process of practical agriculture, such as how to organise and arrange the Welds for maximum eYciency, how the Welds are prepared, manure applied and ploughed under, then sowing, hoeing, etc. up to the harvesting. He makes some useful suggestions for the more eYcient use of existing Welds and the incorporation of fallow land. catalogue fourteen
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