Item #71779 [ Cover title: Art Magic Spiritism ] Art Magic, or the Mundane, Sub-mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism; A Treatise in Three Parts and Twenty - Three Sections, Descriptive of Art Magic, Spiritism, The Different Orders of Spirits in the Universe Known to be Related to, or in Communication with Man; Together with Directions for Invoking, Controlling, and Discharging Spirits, and the Uses Abuses, Dangers and Possibilities of Magical Art. Emma Hardinge BRITTEN, Anonymous.
[ Cover title: Art Magic Spiritism ] Art Magic, or the Mundane, Sub-mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism; A Treatise in Three Parts and Twenty - Three Sections, Descriptive of Art Magic, Spiritism, The Different Orders of Spirits in the Universe Known to be Related to, or in Communication with Man; Together with Directions for Invoking, Controlling, and Discharging Spirits, and the Uses Abuses, Dangers and Possibilities of Magical Art.
[ Cover title: Art Magic Spiritism ] Art Magic, or the Mundane, Sub-mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism; A Treatise in Three Parts and Twenty - Three Sections, Descriptive of Art Magic, Spiritism, The Different Orders of Spirits in the Universe Known to be Related to, or in Communication with Man; Together with Directions for Invoking, Controlling, and Discharging Spirits, and the Uses Abuses, Dangers and Possibilities of Magical Art.
[ Cover title: Art Magic Spiritism ] Art Magic, or the Mundane, Sub-mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism; A Treatise in Three Parts and Twenty - Three Sections, Descriptive of Art Magic, Spiritism, The Different Orders of Spirits in the Universe Known to be Related to, or in Communication with Man; Together with Directions for Invoking, Controlling, and Discharging Spirits, and the Uses Abuses, Dangers and Possibilities of Magical Art.

[ Cover title: Art Magic Spiritism ] Art Magic, or the Mundane, Sub-mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism; A Treatise in Three Parts and Twenty - Three Sections, Descriptive of Art Magic, Spiritism, The Different Orders of Spirits in the Universe Known to be Related to, or in Communication with Man; Together with Directions for Invoking, Controlling, and Discharging Spirits, and the Uses Abuses, Dangers and Possibilities of Magical Art.

New York, USA: Privately Published, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 468pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titling and black decorative embellishments to spine & covers, beveled edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, b&w illustrations. The anonymously-published first edition of one of the best known works associated with Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899). The book itself is a curious overview of occult and religious practices, from ancient Egypt to the (then) contemporary Spiritualist literature of Andrew Jackson Davis, although with a particular focus on mediaeval evocatory and theurgical texts, the Cabala, and magic in general. Many suspect that Britten wrote the work herself, although she claimed only to have edited it, and seemed to imply that it had actually been written by one 'Chevalier Louis de B------,' a (possibly fictional) Adept who she also suggested had introduced her to a highly select and secretive occult fraternity called the 'Orphic Society.' Very light bumps to lower edges of boards and bruising to corners and spine ends. Front free endpaper has a previous owner's blind-stamp and a little rubbing and a short tear to the fore-edge, and is starting to seperate at the bottom of gutter, but boards firmly attached. Occasional light flecking / foxing throughout. Still, the binding is unusually bright, and internally it is tight, clean copy. Thus a VG+ copy of a work that is seldom enountered in such nice condition. Item #71779

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