On the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism.
Boston, MA: Otis Clapp, 1859. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 138pp. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. A collection of five lectures on the phenomena of spiritualism by a minister of the New Jerusalem Temple (a Swedenborgian Church) of Portland Maine, entitled: "The Doctrine of Resurrection, the Spiritual World, and the Opening of Man's Interior Senses", "On the Association and Communication of Departed Spirits with Men", "The New Jerusalem Revealed System of Doctrinal Truth for the New Age", "Why are the Disclosures of Swedenborg of More Authority than those of Spiritualism?", and "Seasons for Accepting the Revelations of the New Jerusalem as Truth". From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, although not marked as such. Cloth lightly rubbed and discoloured, light bumps to corners, spine ends and some edges, a little fraying at head and tail of spine and points, page-edges browned, light tide-mark (damp mark) affecting lower and upper edges of first 20 pages. Still, a solid near VG copy. Item #54002
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