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HOOPER, WILLIAM. Rational Recreations, in which the Principles of Numbers and Natural Philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated,by a Series of Easy, Entertaining, Interesting Experiments. Among which are All Those commonly performed with Cards. 65 uncolored engraved plates, most with multiple subjects (variously offsetting onto facing pages). Half-title lacking in first volume, present in the rest. 4 volumes. 8vo, needs rebinding; Volume 1 title browned and loose, some plates foxed. London: L. Davis et al., 1774
first edition of a popular work on recreational mathematics and science, covering arithmetical and mechanical experiments in the first volume; optics, chromatics, and acoustics in the second; electrical and magnetic experiments in the third, most derived from Priestley; and pneumatics, hydrology, and pyrotechnics in the fourth. Wheeler Gift 508 (1782-83 edition); Toole Stott 391 (1787 third edition).
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