Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1852. First Edition. 12mo, 15 pages, bound in modern red cloth with paper label. Mesmerism Considered is a scarce mid-Victorian pamphlet on mesmerism, animal magnetism, trance, and the controversial powers attributed to mesmeric influence. Published in Glasgow by William Mackenzie in 1852, the work belongs to the.....
Boston: Holman Brothers, 1885. First Edition. Octavo, iv, 212, 194, 94 pages, publisher's original gilt decorated red cloth covered boards. First edition of Joseph Rodes Buchanan’s major work on psychometry, psychic perception, and 19th-century occult science. Buchanan, an American physician, reformer, and early theorist of psychical faculties, coined and popularized.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891. Illustrated with 42 vignettes by Laurent-Gsell. First English Edition. Octavo, xii, 321, [2] pages, publisher's original red cloth covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. An important late 19th-century work on hypnotism, suggestion, and the emerging scientific study of altered states of consciousness. Written by Dr.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition. Octavo, 308 pages, publisher's original green cloth covered boards. An uncommon and highly readable study of Franz Anton Mesmer and the rise of mesmerism, animal magnetism, and early hypnotic theory. In this engaging 1934 biography and history, Margaret.....