15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 165
 

165

Haddock, Joseph W. Somnolism and Psycheism otherwise Vital Magnetism, or Mesmerism: Considered...

Haddock, Joseph W.
Somnolism and Psycheism otherwise Vital Magnetism, or Mesmerism: Considered Physiologically and Philosophically. Published for the Author by J.S. Hodson, Clifford's Inn Passage, 1849. 8vo, org. cloth, upper board lettered in gilt; pp. [4], 73, [3 (Advertisments)]. Scarce first edition. Copac only lists four copies in institutions, a handwritten note loosely inserted lists two copies in Manchester. The 1851 edition appears more common. Touches on the history of Mesmerism, the pathology, and with an appendix detailing hypnotic sessions with a young woman called Emma, including remote viewing attempts of other planets - according to a loosely inserted later (?1960) handwritten note "Hypnotism may beat the spacemen."
Not Sold

 

. Boards stained and detached with spine in one piece, text block remains tight, marking and toning etc but a good copy of a scarce work.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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