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GUYOT, Edme-Gilles (French, 1706-1786). Nouvelles Recreations Physiques Et Mathematiques. Paris: 1798. Fourth printing. Three volumes. 8vo. Contemporary leather binding with stamped titles on spines. Hand-colored illustrations. Partial split to front board of volume three. Chipping to boards. Contemporary inscriptions on title page of all three volumes. Supply and price list for magic tricks at back of volume three intact. Edme-Gilles Guyot was a French inventor and author whose most famous works dealt with mathematics, physics, and magic. His experiments with optical illusions and his contributions to the development of phantasmagoria, or the apparent appearance of ghosts, were revolutionary, and his influence is still widely felt in the magic world today. Nouvelles Recreations Physiques Et Mathematiques remains the most famous of his works.