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HUTTON, Charles (trans.), M.L. Despiau. Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, by W. Glendinning, 1801. Contemporary full calf with gilt-ruled spine and title label. 8vo. p. [i-v] vi-xix [xx], [1] 2 – 397, + 1 – 3 (advts.). Insignificant working to endsheet and first eight leaves, joints worn, corners gently rounded; very good. Toole Stott 240.Includes tricks with cards, magic squares, magic lanterns, feats of artificial memory, and proto-spiritualist conjuring through “palingenesy,” by which a performer can make the images of the dead appear in a glass jar.