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Large Collection of American Spiritualism, 1829-97, Many First Editions

of Pamphlets in Wrappers, with Numerous Periodicals, 1851-76

 

(SPIRITUALISM). Fourteen (14) American Spiritualist Periodicals, Including Spiritual Philosopher, Vol. I (1850, 26 issues); The Spirit Messenger, Vol. I (1850-51, 52 issues); The Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Guide, Vol. II (1851, 18 issues); The Spirit World, Vol. II-III (1851, 52 issues); Spirit Messenger and Harmonial Advocate, Vol. I (1852-53, 26 issues); The Principle Vol. I-II (1857-58, 24 issues); Religio Journal...Devoted to Spiritual Philosophy (ten issues, Chicago 1869-73)* [WITH] Seventy-Five (75) Books (more than half are pamphlets in wrappers), 1829-97. $18,500.00

 

A superb and representative collection beginning with the earliest, and very rare, American book on rapping: The Mural Diagraph, or the Art of Conversing Through a Wall, published in 1829, written by James Swaim, and the only edition of a work which antedates the miraculous "Rochester rappings," of which it is perhaps the progenitor by nearly 20 years.

Pamphlets include: A Treatise on Religion and Christianity, by Frederick Munch, 1847; Probabilities: an Aid to Faith, 1847; Pathetism, by La Roy Sunderland, 1848; The Harmony of Law, by John R. Bolles, New London 1851; A Peep into Sacred Tradition, by Orrin Abbott, Buffalo 1852; The Macrocosm and Microcosm, by William Fishbough, 1852; Biography of Mrs. Semantha Mettler, the Clairvoyant, by Frances H. Green, 1853; A Review of the "Spiritual Manifestations," by Charles Beecher, 1853; Lectures on Spiritual Science, by R.P. Wilson, Cleveland 1854; Discourses on Divine Illumination, by J.B. Ferguson, Nashville 1855; Spiritual Tracts, No. 1-[13], by Judge Edmonds, 1858; The Spiritual Register, for 1859, by Uriah Clark; Modern Spiritualism, by T.L. Harris, 1860; Rules To Be Observed When Forming Spiritual Circles, by Emma Hardinge, 1873; The Conflict Between Darwinism and Spiritualism, by J.M. Peebles, 1876.

Of great importance, of course, are the extensive works of Thomas Lake Harris, of which we offer eight (8) more; and Andrew Jackson Davis; of which, we offer eleven (11).

*Plus one or a few issues of The New Era of Heaven Opened to Man (1853); The Sacred Circle (1855); Tiffany's Monthly (1856); The Friend of Progress (1865); The American Spiritualist (1870); The New Age (1875); Equity (1875); Voice of Angels (1876).

Inquiries welcome.