Allgemein - - Crailsheim, A. E. F.

General - - Crailsheim, A. E. F. von. Die zehenmal hundert und eine Kunst, Oder vermischte Sammlung von tausend und zehen nützlichen auch lustig und scherzhaften ... tricks. 10 parts in 1 volume. With 5 partly folded plates and numerous woodcuts in text. Nuremberg, Riegel's widow, 1766. 2 pp, 825 pp, 24 pp. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Leather binding of the time with rich spine gilt (rubbed and bumped). Anonymously published first edition of the collection of about 1000 useful medical recipes, home economics instructions, miracle cures and magic tricks published in 10 parts. - For example, making tooth powder, burn ointment, diarrhea remedies, remedies for port-wine stains, liver spots, frostbitten feet, dog bites, as well as skeletonizing mice, varnishing frogs, bringing down a carriage, swallowing fire, "impaling a cat on the wall with a knife", making colored inks, paints and sealing wax, binding a book (p.727 ff.), building flea traps, stuffing birds, defusing a grenade, card tricks, and more. - Partially waterstained. *