Benares: Theosophical Publishing Company, 1899. First Edition. 12mo. Tan cloth boards; 70pp. Scattered pencil marginalia in a contemporary hand. Darkening to title page from offsetting; minor loss to rear endpaper; small snag to cloth at crown of spine; about Very Good. More
Lynn, Mass: Dr. Asa G. Eddy, 1881 [but 1883]. Third Edition. A key early edition of the foundation work of Christian Science, first published in 1875 and continually revised throughout the author's lifetime. According to the timeline of Science & Health on the Mary Baker Eddy Library website, this Third..... More
Boston: W.G. Nixon, 1891. Among the least common of Eddy's Christian Science tracts, first published in 1887 and reissued periodically through the first decade of the Twentieth Century. The title was shortened to "No and Yes" for the 1894 reissue. Later collected in Eddy's Prose Works. This edition, by the..... More
London: E.W. Allen, 1897. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Fifth volume of a series on Anglo-American mystic Thomas Lake Harris and his utopian free love community the Brotherhood of the New Life whose third iteration, located on Lake Erie in New York, was funded and financially supported by Laurence Oliphant..... More
Boston: William White & Company, 1873. Second Thousand. One of a series of spiritualist tracts authored by the social reformer, this a description of an eleven-day stay he made at the "spirit-house" of Morris Keeler in the village Moravia, New York. There Hazard participated in a number of seances, often..... More
Boston: Massachusetts New-Church Union, 1899. Offprint. Uncommon treatise first published in "The New-Church Review," by the pastor of the Swedenborigan New-Church in Boston. OCLC locates three physical copies as of April, 2020, Graduate Theological Union Library and U. Texas only in North America. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's grey-green printed wrappers;..... More
London: C.W. Daniel Co., 1927. First Thus. Best-known work by Isbyam (1887-1949), a British civil engineer and philosopher. The work is said to touch "on themes, particularly Relativity, that were not explored until the 1980s and 1990s" (see finding aid to Western's papers at IISH). Western was chairman of the..... More
Buffalo: Charles A. Wenborne, 1889. First American Edition. A mystical treatise on religion and sexuality; much of the work is purported to be directly transposed from the spirit-communications of the author's late wife. Oliphant (1829-1888), a South-African born English mystic Zionist and sexual reformer, and acolyte of the California charismatic..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. First Edition. Collaborative work on transcendentalism by the British politician and Christian mythic composed with his wife Alice Le Strange, though the preface states that the text was entirely dictated by Le Strange to her husband, who only adopted the role of editor. Octavo..... More
[Oneida: 1875]. First Edition. Spiritualist gloss on the life of the apostle Paul and the Second Advent: "...we have to study...whether our relations to Christ are such that we too can rationally hope for a perosnal meeting with him that shall change our bodies from mortality to immortality...I can hardly..... More
Los Angeles: Master Mind Publishing Co., 1915. Second edition. Octavo; cloth boards, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 119pp. Very Good in original boards, cover gilt rubbed but still legible. Rix (1863-1931) was co-founder, with her sister, of the West Coast Metaphysical Bureau. More
Waynesboro, VA: The Walter Russell Foundation, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); medium blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in silver dustwrapper; xiv, 270pp, frontispiece. Soiling, wear to boards and dustwrapper; dw also bumped, with chips about the edges and and material loss at crown of spine. Textblock has some foxing to..... More
New York: Carleton, 1869. First Edition. Collection includes two contributions by Margaret Fuller, "Literature in Spirit Life" and "City of Spring Garden." Additional works by Napoleon Bonaparte, Egdar Allan Poe, and Junius Brutus Booth, father of Edwin and John Wilkes. SABIN 33020; WRIGHT II 1265. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's blind-embossed terracotta..... More
New York: Charles Partridge, 1859. Translation of Kerner's most celebrated work, Die Seherin von Prevorst, first published in Stuttgart in 1829. This account of spirit-communication and somnabulism was based upon Kerner's real-world encounters with Friederike Hauffe, a gamekeeper's daughter who became a regular visitor to the Kerner house at Schloss..... More
New York: Charles Partridge, 1866. Reprint. Description of the afterlife using fictional elements by Ohio Spiritualist Hudson Tuttle (1836-1910), first written and published in 1855 when the author was just twenty years old. The present title foreshadows the importance Tuttle later assumed in the Spiritualist community of the latter half..... More
Boston: 1854. 12mo (17.5cm.); removed; 2,[1],18pp.; woodcut illus. Near Fine and fresh. The more uncommon Boston edition of this Spiritualist tract, issued by civil engineer and medium John Shoebridge Williams (1790-1878), who claims on the final leaf of text, "Agreeably to my own observations, and from the testimony of other..... More
