[SPIRITUALISM] Twing, Carrie ES E SBiblio.com
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188323501Springfield Mass: Star Publishing Co 1883. Softcover. Near fine. 4.5 x 7.5 inches sewn wrappers. pp. 27 7 publisher's ads. Trimmed off-center small chip to corner of back wrapperelse fine. Papers Sixteen to Twenty-Two of a series purportedly delivered by deceased newspaper editor Samuel Bowles through the mediumship of Carrie Twing. Among the subjects "Bowles" discusses are the use of phrenology to determine marital compatibility the need for tolerance among Spiritualists and how cyclones appear to spirits. Most notably he reports on a meeting and reconciliation between President James Garfield and his recently executed assassin Charles Guiteau in the afterlife and condemns the use of capital punishment. Star Publishing Co unknown
1869018145Boston: William White & Co. 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Thousand. Surface tears in cloth at spine cloth rubbed and faded owner bookplate front pastedown foxing to exterior page edges 325pp. William White & Co. Hardcover
18974343Chicago: M. R. Kent 1897. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 132 pages flexible reddish-brown cloth rear cover creased; bookplate partially unopened <br/><br/>These lectures were delivered at Chicago November 28-30 1896 but were thoroughly revised and much enlarged for print. Bjerregaard became chief of the reading room of the New York Public Library. M. R. Kent hardcover
1871018147Boston: Colby and Rich 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Rubbing to cloth occasional penciled paragraph markers tape repair to one page age toning 487pp. Colby and Rich Hardcover
1890018151Boston: Estes and Lauriat 1890. Book. Illus. by De Bieler Myrbach and Gambard. Very Good. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth profusely gilt stamped pictorial cover corners bumped partially removed label to rear pastedown. 314pp. Estes and Lauriat Hardcover
1867009643Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo 1867. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Chipping to cloth at head and tail of spine vertical tear along spine deteroration to hinges noted text and pages very good. Decorative royal blue cloth with gilt stamping. Rare. William P. Nimmo Hardcover
1896008167Private By Author 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Faint moisture stain to bottom edge first five pages frontis section before title page and rear corner of cloth with a slight warping of boards owner paper label and quote on decorative endpaper. Otherwise contents and text are remarkably clean and bright. RARE 1st Edition. Private By Author Hardcover
1896016549Cincinnati: The Light of Truth Pub. Co. 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Original red cloth with decorative endpapers owner inscription on fly pages toned. 400pp. The Light of Truth Pub. Co. Hardcover
1897059906Progressive Thinker Publishing House 1897. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Early copy 1897 edition of this classic work. Various condition issues include the rubbing off of the title 'Ghost Land" and 'Occultism' from cloth leaving only the subtitle 'Spiritualism' hinges starting dampstain to margins not affecting text age toning to pages. 357pp catalog. Progressive Thinker Publishing House Hardcover
1897036191St. Louis: Anna C. Reifsnider Book Company 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Scarce! Some sunning to cloth otherwise well-preserved copy in light blue pictorial cloth. 292pp. Anna C. Reifsnider Book Company Hardcover
18984672Washington DC: National Spiritualists Association no date. 1898 . First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fair. 8vo 168 pages lacks wrappers: this appears to lack some latter pages but I cannot find another copy of this for comparison. <br/><br/>Features President Harrison D. Barrett Vice-President Cora L. Richmond speaker E. W. Walllis and others. In an effort at self-policing Pres. Barrett addressed fraud and chicanery in the Spiritualist Movement and how to eliminate it. Cora L. Richmond reports that "The year just past is the most important in the annals of Modern Spiritualism". Alfred Russell Wallace chaired one section at the London Conference attended by some of the Americans. The stenographer for these Proceedings was I. C. I. Evans President of the National Young People's Spiritualist Union. Unknown No Copy Located Elsewhere. National Spiritualists Association unknown
1853010209New York: Partridge & Brittan 1853. Book. Good. Half Leather. 4th Edition. Foxingto endpapers age toning to pages bump to top edge of board exterior hinge starting at top 2" surface of leather binding still holding firm. SCARCE. Partridge & Brittan Hardcover
188876666N.p.: N.p. 1888. Broadside measures 6 x 9 1/2 inches and has an image of Jewett with apparition-like illustrations of Lincoln and George Washington and his wife behind him. In manuscript above and below the image is written "Lincoln and Washington Family come at my earnest call in silent prayer much to my joy in December 1888 at 82. California Solomon Wright Jewett It is also inscribed and initialed by Jewett on the recto- "“Interesting enough to be surrounded in a frame and in a glass only think of calling down our friends from Heaven. JWS 1890" Broadside has three horizontal fold-lines and the middle fold has a one inch separation at the right margin old stain to top of page. A fragile and scarce item of Spiritualist Vermont and California interest. No copies located.Solomon Jewett was one of the most earnest and grandiose of all believers and practitioners of Spiritualism in 19th century America. Born and raised in Vermont he became a wealthy sheep farmer in both Vermont and California. After losing his wife of seven years he became interested in Spiritualism. He also traveled extensively in Europe and other places picking up his further beliefs as he went along. Soon enough he was referring to himself as a “Shepherd of Vermont and California†“Indian Healer†“Doctor of Magnetism†and “Medical Doctor.†He soon began to claim that he could channel Washington and Lincoln among many others. "He also associated with and befriended a spirit artist Wella P. Anderson and his wife Lizzie “Pet†Anderson a medium who worked in New York City and Oakland California. Jewett acquired from them eighteen pencil portraits that depict well-known historical and mythical figures spanning many geographical locations and historical times that apparently “visited†the artist under the influence of Jewett’s presence" Henry Sheldon Museum. He assembled a large collection of Spirit art and photographs and that collection remains extant in The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. Jewett died in 1905 N.p. unknown
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
1848002783London: Simpkin Marshall 1848. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 241 pages clothbacked boards paper label on spine. Scarce. <br/><br/> Gardner 1177 . Simmonite lead a revival of interest in astrology in the mid-nineteenth century. His work was noted for its erudition. Simmonite is also credited with simplifying the nature of the calculations required to construct a horoscope chart. Simpkin Marshall hardcover
1862310478London 1862. Printed 2-page circular on biofolium docketed "London 1864" in ink at head. 4to 9 x 14-1/4 inches. Creased from prior folding remnants of mounting on verso. Printed 2-page circular on biofolium docketed "London 1864" in ink at head. 4to 9 x 14-1/4 inches. Broadside circular advertising the services of "Sibyle medium" Mrs. Duke Saunders who "has the extraordinary gift of holding communions and conversation for any length of time and anywhere with the departed in the Spirit World" and has claimed to have had communion with a host of religious historical and artistic figures including Adam Moses Queen Elizabeth Shakespeare Titian Napoleon and the late Prince Albert. Saunders solicits subscriptions for her upcoming book The Spirit World: or the Spirit of the Spirit World - though we find no evidence of this book or any other under the name Mrs. Duke Saunders having been published. A chart at the end of the circular gives her rates for various services "Teaching to write" "Private Communion for one" "Evening Seance" etc. unknown
