Item #62068 Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. Judge Edmonds Refuted; or An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the Human Mind. John Bovee DODS.
Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. Judge Edmonds Refuted; or An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the Human Mind.

Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained. Judge Edmonds Refuted; or An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the Human Mind.

New York, NY: De Witt & Davenport, Publishers, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 252pp. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt on spine. The text of a series of lectures that were first delivered in Auburn, New York, in 1851. The author, John Bovee Dods (1795-1872) was a New York born clergyman, philosopher, mesmerist, and early psychologist who spent much of his adult life in Maine. He appears to have both embraced and rejected Spiritualism at varying times of his life: at the time of delivering these lectures he seems to have been taking a middle-ground, suggesting that the phenomena were real, but natural rather than supernatural; the product of a pyschological electrical force rather than some occult agency. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris blind seal on front blank. Cloth somewhat rubbed overall, corners and spine ends bumped and chafed, one inch split to cloth at front and back of upper spine, page-edges darkened, endpapers darkened & discolored, some foxing and browning throughout, tidy pencil notes to less than a dozen pages. The flaws are largely superficial, and it remains a solid near-VG copy. Item #62068

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