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The merry companion: or, delights for the ingenious. In two parts. I. Teaching how to shew divers merry tricks, Arithmetical, Artificial, by Legerdemain, and with Cards. II. Containing a collection of merry jests, Compos'd for the Innocent Diversion of Youth. By Richard Neve.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1721- Books
Your normal mind : its tricks and quirks / by Luby Pollack ; with a foreword by Gilbert J. Rich.
Pollack, Luby.Date: 1953- Books
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The tricks of trade in the adulterations of food and physic : with directions for their detection and counteraction.
Date: 1856- Books
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A full manifestation of what Mr. Henry Laurens falsely denominates candor in himself, and tricks in Mr. Edmund Jenings.
Jenings, Edmund, 1731-1819.Date: printed in the year, 1783- Books
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The tricks of the trade in the adulterations of food and physic : with directions for their detection and counteraction.
Date: 1856- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, the cabinet of legerdemain curiosities broke open. Being a choice collection of rare artificial tricks Entertaining and Diverting. To which is Added, The Artificial Jester, Compos'd for the Innocent Diversion of Youth. Read o're this Book and you may say, Your Money is not thrown away. By Richard Neve.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1721- Pictures
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A clothed man and mule perform various tricks involving clothing, a hand-bell, bottle, chair and table. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 1887Reference: 2011307iPart of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes; containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, by Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The conjurer unmasked; Being a clear and full explanation of all the surprizing performances exhibited as well in this kingdom, as on the continent By the most eminent and dexterous professors of slight of hand, together with the tricks of the divining rod,-automaton chess-player,-speaking figure,-artificial serpents,-mechanical birds,-automaton flute player,-vaulting figure,-magical table,-perpetual motion, &c. &c.
Decremps, Henri, 1746-1826.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Pinneti's last legacy, Or The magical cabinet unlock'd: being a curious collection of entertaining and diverting tricks on cards and dice; together with the astonishing philosophical experiments, &c. Projected by the ingenious and celebrated Signior Ga. Pinneti, who has received the patronage of most of the Princes of Europe, for his surprizing and wonderful inventions; and has exhibited the same at the Theatre Royal in London, with universal applause. Consisting of thirty-three astonishing and wonderful tricks and experiments, performed by him. Interspersed with the performances of several other ingenious persons, never before published. The whole explained in so familiar a manner as to enable the reader to become equally expert with pinnetl in magical and philosophical experiments.
Pinetti, Giuseppe, 1750-1800.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
Practical acrobatics : descriptions of tumbling and acrobatic tricks and exercises from single movements to more difficult combinations / by Bertram S. Ash, illustrated with photographs.
Ash, Bertram S.Date: [1936]- Books
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Mr. Laurens's true state of the case. By which his candor to Mr. Edmund Jenings is manifested, and the tricks of Mr. Jenings are detected.
Laurence, Henry, 1724-1792.Date: 1783- Books
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The cheats of London exposed : or, the tricks of the town laid open to both sexes ... / By the author of the 'Midnight spy'.
Date: [1766]- Books
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The political rehearsal. Harlequin Le Grand: or, the tricks of Pierrot le Primier. With the adventures and humours of Punchinello, Scaramouchi, Mezetino, and variety of other personages.
Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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The history and adventures of Peregrine Pickle. With the many droll tricks that Peregrine played his mother and others; also of his two companions, Hatchway and Pipes.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: [1775?]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds, bullies, duffers, fortune-tellers, gamblers, gossips, hangers-on, jilts, intelligencers, Jew-defaulters, insolvents, kidnappers, lottery-office-keepers, mock-auctioneers, money-droppers, ring-droppers, pimps, pretended friends, procurers, procuresses, quacks, receivers of stolen goods, setters, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-listers, street-robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud. Written from experience and observation by Thomas Brown, author of the New London spy, also published by C. Cooke. Embellished with emblematical copper-plates.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, deceptions, which are daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies, children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads, gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers, jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers, kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps, pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses, pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.
King, RichardDate: [between ca. 1778 and 1805?]- Books
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A front view of the five headed monster, with ten sides to his tongue; being a faithful account of his brutish tricks, ... by Job Nott, buckle maker.
Nott, Job.Date: [1798]- Books
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The roving maids of Aberdeen's garland: containing, I. The humours of the age, or tricks in all trades. II. The roving maids of Aberdeen. III. The golden glove.
Date: 1776]- Pictures
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Two ladies, seated, with a child between them, being entertained by a magician who performs tricks with cups and balls. Etching by R. Rhodon after P. Mercier, 1882.
Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760.Date: 1882Reference: 563021i- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of the metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villainies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions and deceptions, which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: 1799?]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, and deceptions which are daily practised in London, by bawds and bullies duffers fortune tellers gamblers gossips hangers-on jilts intelligencers Jew defaulters insolvents kidnappers lottery office keepers mock auctioneers money droppers ring droppers pimps pretended friends procurers procuresses quacks receivers of stolen goods setters spungers sharpers swindlers smugglers shop lifters street robbers trappers way-layers waggon hunters whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admonitions salutary hints and observations whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided, by the instructions herein contained. The whole laid down in so plain and easy a manner, as to enable the most innocent country people to be completely on their guard, how to avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by villany and fraud.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1800?]- Books
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The acts. Chap. I. Now when the day of swearing was fully come, and the tribe that had usurped, had wasted all it's tricks, and every subterfuge had failed. ...
Date: 1790?]- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; the frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a guard against the iniquitious [sic] practices of that metropolis. ...
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1795?]