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

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

6 volumes in-8vo.

Union of the six volumes of the great work by the Marquis de Mirville (1802-1873), one of the principal Catholic authors who treated of spiritualist and magnetic phenomena in the nineteenth 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 the 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 substantial erudition, confronts the talking boards, magnetism, and spiritism with ancient and Christian traditions; it was abundantly cited by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.

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

Condition: spine labels worn and partly damaged, boards worn with small losses of paper; foxing, more or less heavy depending on the volume, particularly on the half-title pages and titles; small repairs to the adhesive paper on a few title leaves.