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COMIERS, [Claude] [d.1693].
Pratique Curieuse, Ou Les Oracles Des Sibylles., Sur chaque Question proposée. Troisième Édition, Augmentée d'une seconde Partie sur de nouvelles Questions qui n'ont point encore paru. Avec la Fortune des Humains, Inventée par.mise nouvellement dans c
Paris.Brussels: George De Backer, 1701..
3 Parts in 1 [last part titled La Fortune Des Humains.]. 8vo. pp. 274; 9 p.l., 142; 1 p.l., 84, [12]publisher's catalogue. engraved frontis. woodcut ornaments, initials, & title vignette. contemporary calf, gilt back (extremities worn & chipped, joints cracked, marginal pen scribbling on title, occasional spotting). 'Third Enlarged Edition'. cfCaillet 2529 (citing 1698 third edition).
$256 USD Book Number: OMIatCOM4 Order / Enquire
DUGUID, David [1832-1907].
Hafed Prince Of Persia: His Experiences In Earth-Life And Spirit-Life, Being Spirit Communications Received Through...Popular Edition.
London: W.Foulsham & Co. & Glasgow: Hay Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1903..
8vo. pp. xii, 580. several text illus. & facsimiles. original cloth (extremities frayed, light spotting to outer leaves). ownership entry on title of F.M.R.Spendlove, M.D. dated 1904. Duguid was a Scottish medium and Glasgow cabinet-maker whose automatic drawings and spirit photography were apparently exposed as fraudulent on numerous occasions.
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SALVERTE, [Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière de] [1771-1839].
Essai Sur La Magie, Les Prodiges Et Les Miracles Chez Les Anciens.
Brussels: Arnold Lacrosse, 1821..
small 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 191. with half-title. contermporary quarter calf (piece chipped from lower spine). cfCaillet 9867.
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SCHRENCK-NOTZING, Albert, Freiherr Von [1862-1929].
Phenomena Of Materialisation: A Contribution To The Investigation Of Mediumistic Teleplastics.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd & New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., 1923..
8vo. pp. xii, 340. 219 of 225 illus. on numerous plates: lacking figures 35-38 & 121 & figure 112 has been pasted over. cloth (fraying to extremities, some light foxing, inner front hinge cracked). A reissue of the First English Edition, translated by E.E.Fournier d'Albe.
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[VULSON OR WULSON, Marc de La Colombière] [d. 1665].
Le Palais Des Curieux, De L'Amour Et De La Fortune.l'Explication des Songes & Visions noctrunes. Avec une Traité de Phisionomie, recueilli des plus graves Auteurs de ce Siècle.
Paris: Nicolas le Gras, 1698..
12mo. pp. 7 p.l., 60, [4], 7-212. engraved frontis. by T.Guillain. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary calf (rubbed, extremities worn, few small wormtracks, tears to frontis. repaired with loss of several letters, scattered foxing & staining). Popular work on dreams and their meanings, alphabetically indexed by subject and signification. Five types of dreams are distinguished: songe, vision, oracle, reverie, and apparition. Appended, pp. [118]-212, is a treatise on physiognomy. Goldsmith, BM STC French, V602. Thorndike VIII p. 480. cfBarbier III 762. cfBrunet IV 313. cfCioranescu 67248. cfCaillet 11540.
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