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Italian standard work on conjuring

ALBERTI, Giuseppe Francesco Antonio.
I Giuochi numerici fatti arcani palesati.

With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text.

With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text.

With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text.

With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text.

With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text.



Venice, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, 1788. 8vo. Modern half vellum with red morocco title label on spine. With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text. 156 pp.

The third edition of this handbook on mathematics and conjuring, containing puzzles, tricks with cards and dices and problems relating to the theory of numbers and sleight of hand by Antonio Giuseppe Alberti (1712 - 1768), a hydraulic architect and a road engineer. The first edition had appeared in 1747.is best known through this work, which was the first on this subject to be published in Italy. He was inspired by the Spanish work of Pablo Minguet É Yrol, Engaños á ojos vistas y diversion de trabajos mundanos, fundada en lícitos juegos de manos, que contiene todas las diferencias de los cubiletes, y otras habilidades muy curiosas, demostradas con diferentes láminas, para que los pueda hacer facilmente cualquier entretenido, (1733). This was Spain's most popular conjuring book and it was reprinted many times untill the nineteenth century, like this interesting work by Alberti.

Attractive, uncut copy. -(Some faint foxing throughout).
Riccardi I, cols. 15-7; Caillet I, 145 (other edition); Honeyman Nr. 47; Poggendorff I, p. 23; Diz. Biogr. degli Italiani I, p. 696-7.

Related Subjects: Arithmetics  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics 

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