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Bologna, Bartolomeo Borghi, 1747. In 8°. Frieze engraved in wood on the title page and 16 numbered plates engraved in copper outside the text, loose first leaves, reinforcement on the inner margin of B1, small woodworm hole on the lower white margin of I3-8, small gap in the mirror of the text of Q2, missing leaves V6-9 white, some slight halos, some small tears on the margins, slight foxing, modern endpapers with lines, binding of a later period in cardboard, slight defects.
Specialist Notes
First edition of this treatise on numerical and sleight of hand games, enriched by 16 tables. The volume by the engineer Giuseppe Antonio Alberti (Bologna 1715-Perugia 1768), together with his other valuable writings, brought him greater fame than the important hydraulic works and large engineering works in which he collaborated. The treatise on recreational mathematics "beyond numerical games still contains delightful conjuring tricks" (Riccardi). ".. arithmetic puzzles, card and dice tricks, problems relating to number theory, conjuring tricks, etc." (Honeyman) There are also descriptions of hydraulic devices intended exclusively for playful purposes, demonstrating how much, before science irrefutably asserted itself, the physical laws of hydraulics were considered as prodigious events capable of astounding like the tricks of conjurers. of youth” described among the various games still today is able to stimulate interest and curiosity.
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