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Title

The Chinese sensitive leaf. This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China. ...If you wish to know the temper of a person, you lay this leaf in the palm of his left hand, and you will be delighted to see it move of itself

Identifier(s)

text:1787; APSimg6513; Goodman Number: 336; 973 C683 No. 589

Description

This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China.; Reverse of broadside includes French translation of the text.

Source

Broadsides Collection (973 C683);

Subject

Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Talismans; Pseudo science; Leaves

Date

n.d.