Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations : containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gale, John, active 18th/19th century
Corporate Author:	McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Format:	Microform Book
Language:	English
Edition:	Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Series:	Landmarks II Monographs.
Subjects:	Amusements > Early works to 1800. Literary recreations > Early works to 1800. Scientific recreations > Early works to 1800. Tricks > Early works to 1800.

Description
Item Description:	Pref. signed: J. Gale. "Illustrated with copper-plate engravings." Bookseller's advertisements: pages [344-346]. Printed on wove paper. Signatures: pi1 A-2E⁶ 2F⁶(-2F6) 2G⁶. A1, A2 signed 'A2', 'A3'. With: Anderson, J.H. The fashionable science of parlour magic. London : Great Wizard of the North, [not before 1853] -- Rintoul, A.N. A guide to printing photographic portraits, draperies, backgrounds, &c., in watercolours. London : J. Barnard, [1856]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955. Microform.
Physical Description:	xiv, 343 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, VI folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 18 cm.