On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions, With an Account of Mesmerism
Published by Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1851
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Condition: Used
US$ 408.77
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[Paranormal] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 197 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, blind-ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Partially re-backed with original spine laid over. Edges untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Internally clean, minimal spotting to prelims and rear blanks. Some thumbing to front endpaper. Small binder's label to rear pastedown, bookseller's stamp to front flyleaf. A few pencil annotations to title-page. Some expected toning and age to cloth, some small ink blots to lower. Spine neatly and tightly re-backed. Gentle edgewear. Very good. A sceptic's guide to the supernatural! Middlesex surgeon and author Herbert Mayo targets occult phenomena one by one - divining rods, ghosts, unnatural visions - and offers sensible, materialist explanations for each. For example, he postulates that what popular superstition upholds as vampirism is actually an unfortunate medical state called the death-trance wherein a body's metabolism slows enough to mimic death and then inevitably. resurrection.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions, With an Account of Mesmerism
- Author
- MAYO, Herbert (1796-1852)
- Publisher
- Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1851
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Occult & Esoterica
Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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Adrian Harrington Ltd occupies the rare book room on the first floor of the iconic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells which was established in 1898. We are a large high street bookshop with a stock of tens of thousands of books, prints, maps and ephemeral items. Adrian Harrington specialise in Literature, modern first editions, Ian Fleming, children's books, history, travel, and general antiquarian books. Opening hours are Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.30pm. Visit our website at www.harringtonbooks.co.uk…
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