Philosophical Amusements

Easy recreations for young people from the French writer who exposed the conjurers of his day. Number divinations, card tricks and optical experiments, each set out step by step with the method explained. English edition, London, 1790.

Henri Decremps, 1790. Complete 93-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.