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
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
Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1885. First Edition. Spiritualist moral tale, at one point the ghost of a "beautiful creole girl" coming to haunt the man who caused her ruin and subsequent suicide, while Elsie Ainslie herself suffers a similar fate. WRIGHT III 3679. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's tan wrappers lettered..... 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
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1883. Reprint. The author's second work on Spiritualism, first published in 1872. Robert Dale Owen began his career helping his father Robert Owen in the founding of the social community of New Harmony in Indiana. Robert Dale would later become involved in American politics..... More
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New York: 1858-1873. First Edition. 1."An Appeal to the Public on Spiritualism." [Drop title: "Judge Edmonds on Spiritualism."] 1858. 15pp. Signed and dated in print on final leaf "New York, August 1, 1853." Describes Edmonds's experience "Preparatory to meeting a circle, I have sat down alone in my room and..... 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
