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FIGUIER, [GUILLAUME] LOUIS (1819-1894), Histoire du merveilleux dans les temps modernes.
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860, 1860, 1860, 1861. 4 volumes. [2]+x+420; [iv]+428; [iv]+407+[1]; [vi]+395+[1]pp. + inserted rear ads to volumes 3 & 4. 12mo. Printed yellow wrappers with black lettering. Front wrapper to the first volume detached, spines cracked and somewhat chipped, a very good, clean set with slight foxing. Scarce. First edition of volume 3, second editions of volumes 1, 2, & 4. "When 'turning tables' arrived in France from America around 1853, Figuier became convinced that it was necessary to know the historical background of such phenomena in order to judge their objectivity. The result was this work, divided into the following sections: Volume 1: the history of the epidemic possessions of Loudun and the Jansenist convulsionaries; Volume 2: the history of the divining rod and the Protestant prophets; Volume 3: the history of animal magnetism; Volume 4: the history of table turning and spiritism. Volume 3 is one of the early histories of animal magnetism. Volumes 2 and 4 give a good historical background for phenomena which began to be studied by psychical researchers some ten years later" [Crabtree 1988 #822]. 3 pounds 11.0 ounces = 1.7 kg. 7.4 x 4.6 x 4.0 inches = 18.5 x 11.5 x 10cm. Binding: PB.
Offered for US$ 250.00 by: John Gach Books - Book number: 071358
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