The catalogue comprises a mix of books and pamphlets on Spiritualism, Psychical Research, and related aspects of occultism. A large number of the items are from the collection of the late Dr. Michael Coleman, which included many rare and sometimes unique items.
Holborn, UK: Privately printed ( by Thomas Scott ), ND (1869). First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xxxii +178pp. Original pink printed paper wrappers with black lettering over thin card-stock boards. Addenda, b&w illustrations, one fold-out. An extremely scarce account by Viscount Adare of the private seances he attended that were held... More about Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr. D. D. Home
London: H. Bailliere, 1852. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 256pp. + ii advert. Original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The first UK edition of this exposition on spiritualist phenomena known as "knockings", "rappings" , "the writings" etc - first published in the US the same... More about An Exposition of Views Respecting the Principal Facts, Causes & Peculiarities Involved in...
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 110pp + ii adverts. Yellow papered boards, appendix. A short work on spiritualism which commences with the author's account of attendance at a seance in the home of the well-known medium, D.D. Home. From the collection of Dr. M. H.... More about Spiritualism: A Narrative with a Discussion
Baltimore MD: I & M Ottenheimer Publishers, ND ( circa 1900 ). First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 95pp + vpp adverts. Illustrated wrappers. A wonderful pulp 'how to' book that purports to teach the arts of clairvoyance, mesmerism, and mediumship. Covers a bit darkened and worn, all edges well worn... More about The Secrets of Clairvoyance and How to become an Operator. Mesmerism and Psychology and How to...
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1877. New Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo.180pp + viii adverts. Dramatically illustrated papered boards. DEFECTIVE COPY. A "new" edition of this anonymous work first published earlier the same year. The author, Charles Maurice Davies (1828–1910) was an Anglican clergyman, a prolific author and spiritualist who published dozens of... More about Maud Blount, Medium. A Story of Modern Spiritualism
Bath, England: Printed and sold by S. Hazard: Sold also by T. Mills, Bristol; T. Longman, and S. Chirm, London, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 36pp pamphlet. Superb period-style full leather craft binding by renowned London book-binder, Bernard C. Middleton. Brown calf, with blind stamped rules to front board... More about The Glory of the Heavenly City and Blessedness of departed Saints, graciously manifested in a...
London: Psychic Press Ltd, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 18pp + ii adverts. Stapled booklet. Original beige textured printed wrappers. In 1937 the Primate of All England, Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang commissioned a committee to investigate and report on Spiritualism on behalf of the Church of England. After two... More about The Silence of Dr. Lang
London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1823. Second Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 38pp pamphlet. Half fine-grained brown leather binding over marbled paper boards by renowned London book-binder Bernard C. Middleton. Two raised bands, gilt title and decorative rules on the spine. An account of what would now be termed the... More about An Authentic Narrative of the Extraordinary Cure performed by Prince Alexandre Hohenlohe on Miss...
New York: NP [ Medical Heritage Library ], 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 40pp. Cloth covered boards lettered in black on upper cover, b&w frontis and illustrations. The author, George Miller Beard (1839 – 1883), was an American neurologist who took a particular interest in debunking the claims of spiritualists... More about The Study of Trance and Muscle Reading and Allied Nervous Phenomena in Europe and America, with a...
Glastonbury, London: Various [ Central Somerset Gazette Office, British College of Psychic Science, Scriptorium Publishing Association, The Avalon Press ], Mixed dates (1924, 1925 ). Mixed (First and Second editions). Softcover. Octavos. Nine booklets, complete set. Volume I: The Return of Johannes (1925, Second edition, 20pp), Volume II: Memories of... More about The Glastonbury Scripts. Volume I: The Return of Johannes, Volume II: Memories of the Monks of...
NP [Glastonbury]: Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, ND [1938]. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Booklet. Octavo. 4pp, illustrated. Plain white wrappers lettered in black. Diagram. An unusual work on the sacred geometry of Glastonbury Abbey with a diagram of the Abbey by Frederick Bligh Bond. An off-print from "Notes... More about Glastonbury Abbey. Harmony of Traditional Measures of Total Length and Verification of Same by...
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Glastonbury: Central Somerset Gazette, 1921. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 26pp + ipp advert. Orginal beige stapled wrappers, lettered in black on upper cover. Frederick Bligh Bond (1864 -1945) an architect by trade, was employed by the Church of England to undertake the excavations at Glastonbury Abbey. A Freemason, Theosophist... More about The Return of Johannes. A Sequel to Gate of Remembrance; [Volume I of The Glastonbury Scripts
NP [London]: British College of Psychic Science, ND [1923]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 26pp + ipp advert. Orginal pale blue stapled wrappers, lettered in red on upper cover, b&w illustrations. Frederick Bligh Bond (1864 -1945) an architect by trade, was employed by the Church of England to undertake the... More about Pages from the Book of Immortal Remembrance. II, Concerning Saint Hugh of Avallon, Prior of...
New York: William Britten [ Lovell & Co. ], 1884. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 556pp. Decorated blue pebbled cloth, gilt and black titling and embellishments to boards and spine, beveled edges, b&w illustrations. B&w portraits. Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899) was one of the most famous nineteenth... More about Nineteenth Century Miracles, or Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth. A...
London: James Burns, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover, Folio. 680pp. Contemporary grey pebbled binder's cloth with gilt titling and rules to spine. Black and white illustrations. A substantial run of 42 consecutive issues (of a possible 51) of Vol. XI of "The Medium and Daybreak." Founded by James Burns (1833-1894) in... More about The Medium and Daybreak, A Weekly Journal Devoted to the History, Phenomena, Philosophy and...
London: James Burns, 1882 - 1885. First Edition. Hardcover, Folio. Approx 1168pp. Modern red binder's cloth with gilt titling to spine. Black and white illustrations. Founded by James Burns (1833-1894) in April 1870 by merging two existing small Spiritualist newspapers, "The Medium and Daybreak" grew to become the most widely-distributed... More about The Medium and Daybreak, A Weekly Journal Devoted to the History, Phenomena, Philosophy and...
London: James Burns, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover, Folio. vi + 826pp. Contemporary grey pebbled binder's cloth with gilt titling and rules to spine. Black and white illustrations. Index at front. Founded by James Burns (1833-1894) in April 1870 by merging two existing small Spiritualist newspapers, "The Medium and Daybreak" grew... More about The Medium and Daybreak, A Weekly Journal Devoted to the History, Phenomena, Philosophy and...
New York: J. S. Redfield, 1851. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes in one. Consecutively paginated: 180pp & 230pp (+ xpp publisher's catalogue). Original black cloth elaborately decorated in blind, gilt title, etc. to spine, table of contents for each volume at rear. The rather substantial title probably provides... More about The Celestial Telegraph; or, Secrets of the Life to Come Revealed Through Magnetism Wherein the...
London: J. Millan, at the Green Door, the Corner Of Buckingham-Court; and J. Chrichley, at the London-Gazette, Charing-Cross, 1732. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii] + 240pp. Full leather, original patterned calf boards, skillfully rebacked by London craft binder Bernard C. Middleton. Raised bands and gilt stamped leather title-label to spine... More about Secret Memoirs of the late Mr. Duncan Campbel, the famous Deaf and Dumb Gentleman
London: H. Bailliere, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. xxvi + 120pp. Original green cloth bordered in decorative blind, gilt lettering to upper board. The first edition of this detailed account of over 150 illnesses 'cured' or relieved with mesmerism, including toothache, paralysis, rheumatism, epilepsy, and heart disease. From the... More about The Mighty Curative Powers of Mesmerism, Proved In Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Cases of...
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 438pp. Original brown cloth decorated in blind w/ gilt title, etc, to spine, appendix. Really, a detailed, if partisan, history of Spiritualism during its formative years in North America. A professional journalist from Rhode Island, the author, Eliab Wilkinson Capron, could write... More about Modern Spiritualism: its Facts and Fanaticisms its Consistencies and Contradictions; with an...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xiv + 158pp + 32pp publisher's catalog. Brown cloth with gilt titling to spine, black rules and device to upper board, appendices. This copy inscribed by the author on the half title page: ".......from his friend the author". The... More about Mesmerism, Spiritualism, & etc. Historically and Scientifically considered; being two...
Allentown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 190pp.+ 4pp. ads. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Patterned endpapers. A defence of Spiritualism - or at least a type of Spiritualsim - against the charges levelled against it by a "religious fanatic" named... More about True Spiritualism: Also a Contradiction of the Work of John E. Roberts, entitled...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 300pp. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Constable's first book in which he seeks to prove, by evidence of human experience only that we exist as spiritual beings. Constable later wrote "Telergy", which he described as... More about Personality and Telepathy
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 92pp. Original black pebbled cloth illustrated in blind and lettered in gilt on spine. A scarce anti-spiritualist work in which the author suggests that spiritualists are worshippers of the dead (necromancers) and warns of the dangers of the practice. From... More about Necromancy; or a Rap for the Rappers
