Jules-Eudes de Mirville - Pneumatologie. Des esprits et de leurs manifestations diverses - 1863-1868

MIRVILLE (Jules-Eudes, marquis of). Pneumatology. Spirits and their various manifestations. Mémoires addressed to the Academies. Paris, H. Vrayet de Surcy, 1863-1864. — [Volume six:] The spirits of the Holy Spirit and the miracle in the first six and the last six centuries of our era, especially resurrections of the dead, exorcisms, apparitions, transports, etc. Paris, F. Wattelier et Cie, 1868.

6 volumes octavo.

Union of the six volumes of the great sum by the Marquis de Mirville (1802-1873), one of the principal Catholic authors who treated of spiritualist and magnetic phenomena in the 19th century. Volume I contains the first memoir, Fluidic manifestations before modern science (fourth edition, 1863); volumes II to V form the second memoir, Historical manifestations in profane and sacred antiquity brought close to the facts of the present era (1863-1864); volume VI, published by Wattelier in 1868, opens the third memoir, Thaumaturgic manifestations.

The work, enriched by considerable erudition, confronts talking boards, magnetism, and spiritism with ancient and Christian traditions; it was extensively cited by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.

Half-leather binding in brown cloth, green spine labels, red paper boards with painted decoration.

Condition: spine labels rubbed and partly worn, boards rubbed with small losses of paper; foxing, more or less pronounced depending on the volumes, notably on the half-titles and titles; small restorations with adhesive paper on a few title pages.