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 about Science and Health. Third Edition, Revised (2 vols
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 about Christian Science: No and Yes
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 about Metaphysics and Modern Research
Chicago: Child of Light Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. Large octavo (23cm). Publishers gilt-decorated cloth boards (hardcover); 352pp. Ownership signature to front endpaper; cracks to hinges (but holding); text unmarked. Riddell, a popular evangelist and New Thought advocate, here applies a blend of popular psychology, spiritualism, and Christian morals to... More about Heredity And Prenatal Culture Considered In The Light Of The New Psychology
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 about Sympneumata; or, Evolutionary Forces Now Active in Man
[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 about Paul's Prize (Report of a Home-Talk by J.H. Noyes
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 about The Debatable Land Between This World and the Next with illustrative narrations
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Rock Island: Drifill Printing, N.d. (ca 1920s). Lucius describes himself as one possessed of "natural born intuitive powers of describing life conditions and diseases at sight...has won for himself the world-wide title of 'The Human Microscope,' as well as the permanent position of Examiner-in-Chief and Special Lecturer for the International..... More about Handbill. Prof. Lucius [...] Now in Galesburg. He will Lecture on Vitology, Health and Success...
Buffalo: by the Author, 1894. First Edition. Materia medica of American herbs, with receipts for remedies and instructions for healthy living. Includes a chapter on "Occult Medicine," by which the author means healing through spirit medium. Matteson (d. 1913) was a German-born "occult" physician and clairvoyant, purveyor of quack medicines... More about The Occult Family Physician; and Botanic Guide to Health: Comprising a Description of Many...
