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1905- Félix Juven, Paris 1905, 13,5x19cm, broché. - Edition originale, un des 12 exemplaires numérotés sur Japon, tirage de tête. Dos légèrement insolé et ridé. Rare et agréable exemplaire à toutes marges. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
1862réf. 310478London 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
1862réf. 310478London 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 books
1939réf. 10252New York: Doubleday Doran and Company Inc 1939. First edition. 8vo 278pp. Publisher's red cloth boards spine lettered in gilt in red dust jacket. Review copy with slip attached to ffep. Private library pocket to front pastedown spine lettering somewhat dulled. Jacket split and rubbed along folds spine faded and chipped at ends. Very good in good jacket. Uncommon book from Unitarian minister and founder of the First Humanist Society of New York Charles Francis Potter 1885-1962. The Kirkus review of the work explains Potter's research in psychic phenomena was prompted by his wife's clairvoyant or telepathic powers. In Beyond the Senses Potter reviews spiritualism prophecy precognition clairvoyance etc. while discussing the experiments of J.B. Rhine René Warcollier and the theories of J.W. Dunne. He concludes at the end of the survey that "supernormal perception" was a genuine human faculty. This book is quite scarce in the jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc unknown
1929réf. 8053London: Rider & Co 1929. First edition. 8vo 367 1pp. Photos illustrations throughout. Publisher's gray cloth boards ruled in black and lettered on spine in illustrated jacket. Spine slightly cocked scattered mild foxing throughout more pronounced on page block edges. Pale spotting to upper corner of rear board. Jacket with some staining to front panel toning to spine and a few edge tears. Very good. Scarce first edition in jacket of this account of the series of séances in 1927-28 arranged by Marquis Carlo Centurione Scotto at the medieval Millesimo Castle in Italy. The Marquis was attempting to contact his son who had died in an airplane crash the year prior and sitting at the séances was accomplished miniature painter and mental medium Gwendolyn Kelley Hack 1877-. Hack reported on the extensive range of phenomena which was said to have occurred including the materialization of hands and feet; the levitation of the Marquis to a height of six feet while sitting in a heavy chair; apports and asports; antique weapons engaging in a noisy battle; the movement of sometimes weighty and bulky objects; direct writing; thuds and bangs; the playing of musical instruments as they floated; and other such instances. On one occasion the sitters were creating a favorable atmosphere by singing a fascist song when an illuminated picture of Mussolini was transported from an adjoining room through closed doors. Perhaps most famously the Marquis was transported or asported from the locked séance room necessitating a two-and-a-half-hour search of the castle and grounds. He was eventually found after Mrs Hack received an automatic message through her spirit guide Imperator supplying his location: he was fast asleep on a pile of hay and oats in a granary within the stables the door locked from the outside. The aftermath of this publication included scathing reviews from Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing Rudolf Lambert and Theodore Besterman. The latter's review was so damning it caused Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was friends with the Marquis to resign from the Society for Psychical Research and begin his open attacks on the society for its bias against spiritualism. A scarce book which is very important for its content in terms of 20th century spiritualism and counter movements. Also interesting is the fact that the events surrounding its publication proved to be important and tragic in ACD's life very much influencing his later writing. . Rider & Co unknown
1883réf. 9924Librairie de Saint-Jorre | Paris 1883-1888 | 16.50 x 25 cm | 48 fascicules brochés
1894- Chamuel, Paris 1894, 17x27cm, broché. - Edition originale. Cette très rare brochure fut publiée au moment de la vague des attentats anarchistes et au moment où la revue symboliste "Entretiens politiques et littéraires" donnait la recette de la fabrication des bombes! Dos restauré à l'aide d'une pièce adhésive, légers manques angulaires sur les plats, une pâle mouillure claire en tête des toutes premières pages, très rares piqûres. Ouvrage d'une insigne rareté. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
réf. 334246 pages petit in4 - bon état - ratures et corrections -
1795réf. 5326BBNürnberg, Raw, 1795. 8°. Halblederbde. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückenschildern u. Rückenvergoldung + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 5326B 1. bis 24. Stück (v. 30) in 4 Bänden. (bestossen u. leicht berieben).
1876réf. 14714Bordeaux S.n. 1876 in-8 demi-toile chagrinée noire, dos lisse [Rel. de l'époque]
1893- Librairie de l'art indépendant, Paris 1893-1894, 13,5x21cm, relié. - First edition. Half brown sheep. Numerous contributions, including from J.-K. Huysmans, Jules Bois, Louis Ménard and Pierre Quillard. Rare. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale. Reliure en demi basane caramel. Nombreuses contributions dont celles de J.-K. Huysmans, Jules Bois, Louis Ménard et Pierre Quillard. Rare.
réf. 27730PARIS, chez Frédéric Henry, 12 galerie d'orléans et chez l'auteur 6 rue tranne - 1864 - In 8 - Reliure 1/2 chagrin frottée - Ex-libris orné "A l'avenir, Jouffray" -184 pages - rousseurs - envoi rapide et soigné
PARIS, chez Frédéric Henry, 12 galerie d'orléans et chez l'auteur 6 rue tranne - 1864 - In 8 - Reliure 1/2 chagrin frottée - Ex-libris orné "A l'avenir, Jouffray" -184 pages - rousseurs - envoi rapide et soigné Paulin Gagne, né à Montoison (Drôme) le 9 juin 1808 et mort à Paris le 22 août 1876, est un avocat, journaliste et poète français. Auteur entre autres de L'Unitéide, poème en 60 actes et 25 000 vers où l'on « rencontre la plus bizarre agglomération de noms fantastiques et de vers saugrenus que puisse inventer le cerveau humain » et « candidat universel, perpétuel, surnaturel et inamovible » à toutes les élections, il figure parmi les fous littéraires recensés par Pierre Gustave Brunet, Raymond Queneau et André Blavier.
1927réf. 4683El Paso 1927. Very good. iv742v-viii pp. Original photographic wrappers with cloth tape spine. Light wear and soiling internally clean. The purported autobiography of Cuauhtemoc the last Aztec emperor as received by a medium. Cuauhtemoc surrendered to Hernan Cortes and was later tortured in an attempt to extort further riches from the Aztec. Interestingly the work seems to be channeling Cortes' perspective as he is the credited party at the end signing off "Adios y que al volver sea para cumplir nuestros ofrecimientos llenos del amor con que os distingue vuestro hermano." The final few pages are dedicated to the methods and talents of the medium Benjamin Salazar. Two copies in OCLC at the University of Texas El Paso and the Instituto Tecnologico in Mexico. unknown
1927réf. 4683El Paso 1927. Very good. iv742v-viii pp. Original photographic wrappers with cloth tape spine. Light wear and soiling internally clean. The purported autobiography of Cuauhtemoc the last Aztec emperor as received by a medium. Cuauhtemoc surrendered to Hernan Cortes and was later tortured in an attempt to extort further riches from the Aztec. Interestingly the work seems to be channeling Cortes' perspective as he is the credited party at the end signing off "Adios y que al volver sea para cumplir nuestros ofrecimientos llenos del amor con que os distingue vuestro hermano." The final few pages are dedicated to the methods and talents of the medium Benjamin Salazar. Two copies in OCLC at the University of Texas El Paso and the Instituto Tecnologico in Mexico. unknown books
1907réf. 45809L'Hexagramme | Paris Janvier 1907 - Novembre-Décembre 1913 | 15.50 x 24 cm | 76 fascicules reliés en 6 volumes
1893réf. 18226Maurice, Imprimerie Engelbrecht, 1893 ; in-8 (25,3 cm), broché ; [4], XVI, pp 17-245, [1 bl.], XII, [2] pp.
1778réf. 80488S. n. | à Jérusalem 1778 | 9.80 x 16.80 cm | relié
1907- L'Hexagramme, Paris Janvier 1907 - Novembre-Décembre 1913, 15,5x24cm, 76 fascicules reliés en 6 volumes. - Edition originale de cette rare revue mêlant poésie et ésotérisme. Reliures en demi toile noire, dos lisses ornés de doubles filets dorés, dates dorées, plats de papier marbré, un plat comportant une éraflure, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, quelques rares couvertures conservées, reliures de l'époque. Contributions de Camille de Sainte-Croix, Victor-Emile Michelet, Jean Ott, Han Ryner, Georges & Edmond Simon-Savigny, Charles Delmont, Manoel Gahisto... Nous joignons 7 lettres autographes signées de Georges Simon-Savigny à Jean Ott se rapportant à l'activité de la revue. Rare tête de collection de cette curieuse revue adamite. Provenance : des archives personnelles du poète Jean Ott. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
réf. 15624Paris, Alexandres Houssiaux / Dentu, 1853. In-8 étroit, 46 pp., à la Bradel, percaline verte, couverture conservée (petits frottements à la reliure, quelques rousseurs).
1876réf. 10290Boston: Published for the Editor 1876. First edition. 8vo 22x15cm 5 4-484 4pp. Inscribed to Mrs. L.H.T. Dexter by Annie Lord Chamberlain and dated in 1877 on the ffep. Title page printed in 4 colors publisher's ads at rear. Bound in original blue pebbled cloth decorated and lettered in black and gilt. Rear cover with some staining spine with a few scuffs. Private library card adhered to front pastedown pg. 281 with a vertical tear in the middle but no text lost. Very good. Wonderful copy of one of Emma Hardinge Britten's strangest but most important works in the modern spiritualist movement. Britten 1823-1899 was a central figure in 19th century spiritualism speaking internationally and publishing books and periodicals which helped shape the movement both in America and Britain. Ghost Land is an occult narrative presented as autobiography of the mysterious "Chevalier Louis de B" who at a young age is initiated into a German secret society which experiments in séance clairvoyance spirit obsession astral travel and travels to secret temples in India. These fantastic adventures which are vividly detailed by Britten underscore her argument that modern Spiritualism is just one part of a larger and much older occult practice. This copy with a remarkable Spiritualist association inscribed shortly after publication: "Mrs. L. H. T. Dexter-Please accept with love and good wishes from your friend Annie Lord Chamberlain. Chicago Ill. July 12th 1877." Chamberlain 1842-1920 was a celebrated physical and musical medium whose séances featured instruments reportedly playing without visible assistance spirit writing voices and materialized flowers; Britten published a biographical sketch of her in The Western Star in 1872. The recipient Mrs. L.H.T. Dexter was herself an early Spiritualist organizer and one of the founders of the First Spiritualist Society of Ionia Michigan in 1868. A very scarce book to begin with and this copy with direct ties to the Midwestern spiritualist movement of the 19th century. Published for the Editor unknown
1853réf. 1948081853-54. Satanic wonders and prophetic signs A representative collection debating the origin and veracity of the phenomena written from religious experimental and spiritualist perspectives. "Table-turning became a fashionable diversion and was practised all over the country in the year 1853" Encyclopedia Britannica. Interest in table-turning surged in the early 1850s as part of the wider Victorian spiritualist movement. The phenomenon also became an arena for the scientific scrutiny of spiritualism most famously in Michael Faraday's 1853 study in which he experimentally determined whether the table or the sitters' hands moved first. He concluded that the movement resulted from involuntary muscular action caused by the sitters' expectations a phenomenon now known as the ideomotor response. Others attributed it either to spirits of the dead or to satanic ruses intended to tempt Christians. The pamphlets comprise: i BANTON George. Table Moving by the Power of the Will: Similar Manifestations Obtained by the Divining Ring; Being a Statement of Original Experiments Reprinted from the "Kentish Independent" Newspaper. With Additional Observations. 1853. First separate edition. ii GILLSON E. Table-Talking; Disclosures of Satanic Wonders & Prophetic Signs. A Word for the Wise. 1853. First edition second printing. iii GODFREY N. S. Table-Moving Tested. And Proved to Be The Result of Satanic Agency. 1853. Third edition. iv MORGAN R. C. An Inquiry Into Table-Miracles Their Cause Character and Consequence. 1854. Second edition. 4 works small octavo. Original blue and green printed wrappers sewn at folds. Contemporary ownership signatures of one I. M. Herries on front wrappers of Banton Gillson and Morgan. Wrappers lightly soiled and toned contents clean: in very good condition. unknown
18661st Edition Period Half Leather with raised bands and gilt spine lettering and adornment. 8vo, iv, 572, iv, 572 pages. Complete 1st 24 issues of the New Series of this monthly spiritualist periodical. Continuation of The British Spiritual Telegraph and The Christian spiritualist. Includes essays by Henry Ward Beecher, and about Bengal Spiritualism, Levitation in Spain, Spiritualism and Christianity, Zouave a Young Creative Medium, etc. Bibliography of Spiritualism, Lincolns Dream of Warning, Manx Superstitions, SUBJECT(S): Spiritualism -- Periodicals. OCLC: 728344879. OCLC lists only 3 holdings worldwide (Boston Pub Libm Kings Col London, British Lib). Front blank endpaper of Vol I loose, all text pages clean and nice, binding solid and good. Some rubbing and edgwear to boards and spine, Still attractive, About Very Good- Condition Overall. Rare and important. (AC-22-18)
1854No Date [1854] 1st edition. Original Green Cloth with embossed gilt illustrated front board & spine Small 8vo, [i]-x, [11]-282 pages; with 6 pages of undated ads. Includes 2 dramatic frontispieces separated by a tissue guard, one shows casting out the evil spirits, the other shows table tipping (reproduced in gilt on the front cover), both with attractive young women at the center. Published just 6 years after the founding of the Spritualist movement in America. Spiritualists often set March 31, 1848, as the beginning of their movement. On that date, Kate and Margaret Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had made contact with a spirit that was later claimed to be the spirit of a murdered peddler whose body was found in the house, though no record of such a person was ever found. The spirit was said to have communicated through rapping noises, audible to onlookers. The evidence of the senses appealed to practically-minded Americans, and the Fox sisters became a sensation .many early participants in Spiritualism were radical Quakers and others involved in the mid-nineteenth-century reforming movement. These reformers were uncomfortable with more prominent churches because those churches did little to fight slavery and even less to advance the cause of women's rights. Such links with reform movements, often radically socialist, had already been prepared in the 1840s, as the example of Andrew Jackson Davis shows. After 1848, many socialists became ardent spiritualists or occultists. Socialist ideas, especially in the Fourierist vein, exerted a decisive influence on Kardec and other Spiritists (Wikipedia). Only one copy has appeared at a major auction house in the last 100 years. OCLC: 504493987. OCLC lists only 1 copy worldwide (British Library). Rear board also attractively embossed. Spine sunned, occasional light foxing. Very Good Condition. An excellent attractive copy of this exceedingly rare book. (AC-22-20)
1669réf. 92303Nicolas CAILLE | Lyon 1669 | 7.3 x 14 cm | Relié
