[Rarebooks] For Sale: Salverte's "Occult Sciences: the Philosophy of Magic."

[Norman Kane]

SALVERTE, EUSEBE [BACONIERE DE.]  THE OCCULT SCIENCES. THE PHILOSOPHY 
OF MAGIC, PRODIGIES AND APPARENT MIRACLES. FROM THE FRENCH, WITH 
NOTES .  .  . BY ANTHONY TODD THOMSON, M.D.  IN TWO 
VOLUMES.   London: Bentley, 1846.  First edition in English.  8vos, 
original blindstamped cloth, spines neatly repaired.  With the 
bookplates of the famous monumental Bibliotheca Lindesiana (shelf 
numbers added in pencil.)  The name "Lindsay" is written on the end 
paper. Volume 2 is largely unopened. This is a translation of the 
improved 2nd French edn. of 1843. "Salverte startled the world of the 
credulous with ... 'The Philosophy of Magic.'  The book claimed to 
unveil the whole of the miracles of the Bible as well as those of the 
pagan sanctuaries."    $300.00     (Trade Discount 10%)


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