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Book contains twelve colourful wheel designs which can be pressed out to make phenakistiscopes. Written under the pseudonym Demi.
#45287 Book / Non-Cinema
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Book suggests various forms of entertainment at a semi-professional level, including the one-man show, conjuring, music, feats of dexterity and ...
#45325 Book / Non-Cinema
Book uses after-images to give illusion of ghost-figures. Instructions for seeing the illusions, and an explanation of their creation, are ...
#46128 Book / Non-Cinema
Second series. Pages of vignettes for children, each accompanied by a verse; and two longer picture-series, resembling lantern-slides in style. ...
#46130 Book / Non-Cinema
Series of pictures to be used as experiments in persistence of vision, and in complementary colour in after-images, with a ...
#46164 Book / Non-Cinema
Anecdotal account of the performance of many conjuring tricks, with explanations of how to do them. Author was part of ...
#46166 Book / Non-Cinema
Fictionalised account of Davy's life, dedicated to Michael Faraday, and intended to encourage boys in a love of science and ...
#46186 Book / Non-Cinema
Photgraphs of London and its suburbs, with explanatory captions.
#46205 Book / Non-Cinema
Book describes many different kinds of tricks using cards, coins, balls, handkerchiefs; a variety of parlour tricks; plate spinning; chapeaugraphy; ...
#46212 Book / Non-Cinema
A visitors' guide to the Exposition, with a calendar of events happenibng during it. Chapters on travel and accommodation; the ...
#46234 Book / Non-Cinema
Detailed study by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. of the American Indian and the images and stereotypes imposed by Europeans and ...
#40724 Book / Non-Cinema
Revised edition of a wide-ranging study by Jack Temple Kirby, focusing on how public perceptions of the South have been ...
#40726 Book / Non-Cinema
Collection of essays, edited by Richard Aquila, focusing on the depiction of the American West in popular culture. Contents: Introduction: ...
#40774 Book / Non-Cinema
Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 2004, exploring the art ...
#39774 Book / Non-Cinema
A collection of photgraphs of the Exposition, with maps of the site.
#42654 Book / Non-Cinema
A series of essays exploring the whole field of optics. Chapters on the nature of human and animal vision; the ...
#42668 Book / Non-Cinema
Explanation for the general reader of the scientific principles of heat, light and sound, with demonstrations. Topics covered are: heat; ...
#42689 Book / Non-Cinema
Translated from the French, and 'illustrated with seventy engravings on wood, and a coloured frontispiece.' Part 1 has sections on ...
#42694 Book / Non-Cinema
Produced by the Religious Tract Society, it contains a series of meditations on London scenes: St Paul's, the Tower, the ...
#42696 Book / Non-Cinema
Collection of tales in an Irish brogue, with a picture of a peepshow on the front.
#42993 Book / Non-Cinema