THE UNSEEN WORLD: COMMUNICATIONS WITH IT, REAL OR IMAGINARY, INCLUDING APPARITIONS, WARNINGS, HAUNTED PLACES, PROPHECIES, AERIAL VISIONS, ASTROLOGY, ETC.
Book Details + Condition: James Burns (London, UK). First Edition, 1847. Hardcover, small octavo. 216 pages. Very scarce - all editions are now scarce, and first editions are rarely seen. Attributed to English Anglican priest John Mason Neale (no author provided in book). Neale's study on paranormal occurrences, including different types of apparitions, hauntings, warnings of approaching death, witchcraft, and more. A committed Christian, he saw supernatural events as simply another aspect of God's world. Chapter headings: The subject proposed; The symbolism of external nature; Of aerial apparitions; Warnings of approaching death; Family apparitions: apparitions in fulfillment of a promise; Of places said to be haunted: revealed secrets; The alleged uselessness of apparitions and their possibility; Apparitions at the moment of death; Witchcraft; Prophecies: astrology. Front and back covers embossed with foliate design. A firm copy of a very scarce work, with tight binding; binding tape to spine; rubbed corners and edges; light shelf wear to boards; age toning to pages; 1913 newspaper clippings pasted to front and rear endpapers, on the subject of telepathy; interior is clean and free of markings.
