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An optical spinning toy. Coloured lithograph.

Grand philosophical, optical, & mechanical exhibition / by M. de Philipsthal.

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

Seeing through illusions / Richard Gregory.

Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour / By J. H. Brown.

Six lectures on light : delivered in the United States in 1872-1873 / by John Tyndall.

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Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

Seeing through illusions / Richard Gregory.

Spectropia, or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour / By J. H. Brown.

Six lectures on light : delivered in the United States in 1872-1873 / by John Tyndall.