Ueber Lebensmagnetismus und über die magischen Wirkungen überhaupt

by Carl Gustav Carus

$450 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1857. 8vo. x, 306 pp. FIRST EDITION. Modern marbled boards; water stain on both top and bottom edges throughout most of book. Item #19891 First edition of the author’s treatise on vital magnetism. Carus here examines mesmerism or animal magnetism deeming it “life magnetism.” He makes the assumption that humans are connected to the whole world by

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