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1891118051Paris, Félix Alcan 1891 In-8 22,5 x 14 cm. Broché, couverture bleu-ciel, auteur & titre en noir sur le dos et le premier plat, XVI-395 pp., table des matières, catalogue éditeur, 32 pp.j in fine. Dos réparé au ruban adhésif, couverture ternie.
1883PHO-197
1840128Introduction au magnétisme, Examen de son existence depuis les indiens jusqu’à l'époque actuelle, sa théorie, sa pratique, ses avantages, ses dangers, et la nécessité de son concours avec la médecine de Aub. Gauthier chez Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur Et Chez Germer-Baillière, Libraire-Éditeur en 1840. Édition originale Le livre mesure 14x22 cm et pèse 0,500 kg (c) pour 494 pages. Reliure d'époque cartonnée. Le livre est en très bon état, émoussé, rare rousseurs, quelques accrocs.
18847822Bangor ME: O.F. Knowles & Co. Printers 1884. First edition. 8vo 168pp. Bound in publisher's rust cloth boards with black ruling and gilt lettering on spine beveled edges. Inscribed by Paine to Miss. A.E. Scammon and dated in 1894 on the ffep. Pages toned boards lightly bumped and rubbed at spine ends and corners. Near fine. <br /> <br /> An interesting and attractive Bangor imprint being a metaphysical tract by lawyer and writer Albert Ware Paine 1812-1907. A short review in The Literary World from 1884 describes the premise of the work:<br /> <br /> "His new philosophy is simply the theory that the spirits of the dead are living about us on every side; having this earth as their local habitation and yet not being trammeled by the limitations of space and time; influencing the living in a myriad ways for good and evil. By this influence he thinks all that is mysterious in human nature necromancy witchcraft dreams second-sight clairvoyance hypnotism genius insanity faith-cures etc. etc. can be explained."<br /> <br /> <br /> This copy inscribed to a Miss. A.E. Scammon of Chicago whom we find mentioned in various religious journals from the time as being chair of the women's committee of the New Jerusalem Church Congress. An intriguing presentation copy. <br /> <br /> <br /> . O.F. Knowles & Co., Printers unknown
