Author: DELEUZE, J.P.F.- animal magnetism.-
Title: Histoire critique du Magnétisme Animal, ... seconde édition. Tome premier [- second].
Description: Paris, Chez Belin-Leprieur, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, no 55, 1819. 8vo. In 2 vols. Contemp. half clf., over marbled brds. (Spine and covers / edges rubbed; corners bumped; remains of giltlett.). [n1, 1-22 in 8, 23 in 5]. (...; IV, 362 pp.). (Some even foxing and browning throughout the text.). Second edition [First ed.: 1813]: Caillet vol. I, 2933: Hirsch vol. II, p. 212: Comp. Norman Coll., M67 [first edition 1813]: 'Deleuze, a student of the Marquis de Chastenet de Puységur, succeeded his teacher as head of the mesmerist movement in France, and it was partly due to his intelligent leadership that interest in mesmerism underwent a revival in the first half of the 19th century. ... his 'Histoire...' gave a balanced, well researched and scientific account of animal magnetism. The first volume of the work dealt with the history and practice of animal magnetism, while the second volume contained analyses of, and extracts from, the principal works on mesmerism published before 1813... Tinterow calls Deleuze's work "the best history, even to date, of Mesmerism". ': Crabtree, comp. item 243, note [ed. 1813], see also item 292: 'Deleuze is a central figure in the history of animal magnetism... The 'Histoire' is Deleuze's first work on animal magnetism and it is one of the most important ever written on the subject...':

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