AFTER DEATH - WHAT? SPIRITISTIC PHENOMENA AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
Book Details + Condition: By Cesare Lombroso. Translated by William Sloane Kennedy.T. Fisher Unwin (London), 1909. Very scarce First UK Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. 364 pages. Original red-brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. Frontispiece and 30 photographic plates, many full-page, and various illustrations in-text. An unusual study of spiritualism, by Italian criminologist and physician Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909). Lombroso began his research into Spiritualism as a skeptic, and an atheist, and although he acknowledged that there were cases of fraud, he came to accept the existence of spirits, the powers of mediums, spirit photographs, voices, and other phenomena. Contents include: Hypnotic Phenomena; The Power and Action of Mediums; Mediums and Magicians in Savage Tribes; Phantasms and Apparitions of the Dead; Belief in the Spirits of the Dead Among Savages and Among Ancient Peoples; Doubles; Haunted Houses; Biology of Spirits; and much more. Overall a very good copy: Slight wear and discoloration to boards. Bookplate on front inside board, with owner's name and acquisition date on front free endpaper. Ex-libris blind stamped on endpaper as well (Dr. M.H. Coleman). Endpapers darkened. Small crease to top edge of pp. V – 10 (most likely due when pages were originally cut).
