58, [ii], xxxiv, [2]pp., 4to. With a part-title "Magnetism" printed twice and appearing once after p. 58, and again as the last leaf of the book, this second time with a two-line motto on the verso. A fine, entirely untrimmed copy in the original blue boards, cream paper backstrip; backstrip worn at foot, with an early manuscript paper label pasted at the center. Book-label of the bookseller John Lawson on front pastedown, with an earlier, circular engraved bookplate at center, a coat of arms with the motto "Sit sine labe decus." First edition, apparently the first issue; another appeared with the same imprint in 1811. There is much on "magnetic sleep" including a series of writings "obtained from the hand of Cesare Avena di Valdieri in the magnetic sleep." George Baldwin led an extraordinarily peripatetic and adventurous life, with trading journeys to India, falling victim to thieves on the plains of Antioch, and a long stint as the British consul-general to Egypt where he discovered hypnotism or "the magnetic sleep." The Dictionary of National Biography, refers to Baldwin as a "mystical writer," who "probably died poor. He speaks of his Legacy to his Daughter as the only property he had to leave her." In addition to the long section in this work by di Valdieri, which takes up pp. i-xxxiv at the end of the book, there are translations from Ganganelli s "Elements of a Liberal Education," and Baldwin s original "Investigation into Principles" and "As to the faculty of the Human Soul." This copy was sold in the Lawson sale at Bonhams, 1st April 2008, lot 17, for �336. OCLC and JISC/COPAC record a single copy of this 1810 edition or issue, at Northwestern University.

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Title: Mr. Baldwin s Legacy to his Daughter, or the Divinity of Truth. In Writings and Resolutions, matured in the Course and Study, and Experience of a Long Life.
Publisher: London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James s, 1810.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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