The Fourth Edition. 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: with a Series of Easy, Entertaining, and Interesting Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments Including the Most Celebrated Card Deceptions; Together with about Seven Hundred Serious, Comic, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, &c. Brown leather over marbled boards, gilt stamping on spine. Illustrated with engravings, 363 pages. Wear to boards, the first few pages loose, some foxing to pages, else good.