MIRVILLE, Jules Eudes de - Lot 78

MIRVILLE, Jules Eudes de Pneumatology. Spirits and their fluidic manifestations. Mémoire adressé à l'Académie Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1854, large in-8, contemporary half-velin with corners, 480 pp. Stamp of the Bibliotheca Capucinorum, Louvain on the title page and bookplate P. Symphorien (wet stamp). Lightly stained vellum, brown spots. Caillet 7597 for the original 1853 edition "A work of scholarship [tending to demonstrate] that somnambulistic and spiritualistic magnetic facts are due to Satan and attest to his diabolical power. This book contains letters from P. V. Ventura, Dr. Coze, and M. de Saulcy. The fantastic story of the Presbytery of Cideville is one of the attractions of this book, which is still so interesting from so many points of view. A whole chapter is devoted to haunted places, stones, mysterious springs and intelligent electricity. This work, with its unique documentation, differs from Gougenot des Mousseaux's Magie in its entirely different choice of exhibits." Dorbon 3109.