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GUYOT, EDMÉ-GILLES. Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques . . . Nouvelle Édition. 102 uncolored engraved plates. xvi, 375, [1]; viii, 410; [4], 408 pages, including half-titles. 3 volumes. 8vo, 203x123 mm, contemporary speckled calf gilt with red morocco lettering pieces, top of spines worn; contents toned, occasional light offsetting from plates, blank lower outer corner off 2 text leaves in Volume 3. Paris: à la Librairie, Rue S. André-des-Arcs, no. 46, An VII [1799]
Popular work on recreational mathematics and science originally published in 1769-70, covering experiments on magnetism and electricity in the first volume; optics in the second; and calculating machines, slight of hand, chess, cryptography, pyrotechnics, etc., in the third.
