Magie, oder, Die Zauberkräfte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Belustigung angewandt worden
A late eighteenth-century German treatise on natural magic, written by Johann Samuel Halle and published in Berlin by Joachim Pauli in 1783-1786, aimed at readers wanting entertaining natural experiments and scientific recreations. Its pictures are small, crisp engravings: a decorative rococo ornament of scrolls and foliage, a plain interior where a seated man and two standing figures watch a room with a wall-mounted animal head and drapery, and a bust-style oval portrait. A designer might borrow the scrolled rococo cartouche and the period interior's staging.
