DELANNE, Gabriel - Lot 30

DELANNE, Gabriel Research on mediumnity. Study of the work of scholars. Automatic writing by hysterics. Mechanical writing. Mediums. Absolute proofs of our communications with the spirit world. Paris, Librairie des Sciences psychiques, 1913, in-12, contemporary burgundy half-percaline, IV, XII, 516 pp. Stamp and call number on title page "Le Scarabée", Bruxelles. Texts not referenced by Caillet, who praises the work of this scholar: "...often eloquent, always erudite, he has been fighting the good fight against materialism for many years". Dorbon 1119. Hartmann's and Carl Du Prel's work on the unconscious or second self... or the hidden half of ourselves possessing faculties superior to our own is mentioned; this idea was later taken up in part by Aksakof. The second part (animism) focuses on clairvoyance, premonition, thought transmission and telepathy.