MESMER, Franz Anton (1734-1815). Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal . Geneva & Paris: Didot le jeune, 1779. [ bound with :] D'ESLON, Charles (1750-1786). Observations sur le magnétisme animal . London & Paris: Didot, Saugrain and Clousier, 1780. [ and :] THOURET, Michel Augustin (1748-1810). Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal. Paris: Prault, 1784. First edition of ‘the manifesto of animal magnetism’ (Norman). ‘As much a social movement as a medical practice, mesmerism spread quickly throughout Europe and America, and became such a mania in pre-Revolutionary France that between 1779 and 1789 more literature was generated on mesmerism than on any single topic’. Garrison and Morton 4992.1; Norman M4; PMM 225. 3 works in one volume, octavo (160 x 95mm). Half-titles to all 3 works (without final blank in first work, third work lightly browned). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spine gilt (free front endpaper restored, lightly rubbed, splitting at head of lower joint). Provenance : contemporary inscription in French on verso of title.
MESMER, Franz Anton (1734-1815). Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal . Geneva & Paris: Didot le jeune, 1779. [ bound with :] D'ESLON, Charles (1750-1786). Observations sur le magnétisme animal . London & Paris: Didot, Saugrain and Clousier, 1780. [ and :] THOURET, Michel Augustin (1748-1810). Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal. Paris: Prault, 1784. First edition of ‘the manifesto of animal magnetism’ (Norman). ‘As much a social movement as a medical practice, mesmerism spread quickly throughout Europe and America, and became such a mania in pre-Revolutionary France that between 1779 and 1789 more literature was generated on mesmerism than on any single topic’. Garrison and Morton 4992.1; Norman M4; PMM 225. 3 works in one volume, octavo (160 x 95mm). Half-titles to all 3 works (without final blank in first work, third work lightly browned). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spine gilt (free front endpaper restored, lightly rubbed, splitting at head of lower joint). Provenance : contemporary inscription in French on verso of title.
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