38 - GUYOT (Edme-Gilles). New Physical and Mathematical Amusements [...] To which have been added their causes, their effects, the method of constructing them, and the enjoyment to be derived from them in order to amaze and pleasantly surprise. Paris, at the bookstore on Rue S. André-des-Arcs, 1799. 3 volumes in-8, full contemporary sheepskin, plain spine. XVI, 353 pp.; (2) ff., III, 380 pp.; (2) ff., 399 pp. Scuffing; a small tear in the paper at the lower corner of the half-title page of vol. II, without affecting the text.

GUYOT (Edme-Gilles). New Physical and Mathematical Amusements [...] To which have been added their causes, their effects, the method of constructing them, and the enjoyment to be derived from them in order to amaze and pleasantly surprise. Paris, at the bookstore on Rue S. André-des-Arcs, 1799. 3 volumes in-8, full contemporary sheepskin, plain spine. XVI, 353 pp.; (2) ff., III, 380 pp.; (2) ff., 399 pp. Scuffing; a small tear in the paper at the lower corner of the half-title page of vol. II, without affecting the text. 102 plates as inserts (Vol. I: 32 plates, II: 48 plates, III: 22 plates). New, expanded edition of this famous collection of scientific diversions, physics experiments, mathematical curiosities, and optical illusions compiled by Edme-Gilles Guyot (1706–1786).