POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS AND THE TRUTHS CONTAINED THEREIN, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF MESMERISM
Book Details + Condition: Lindsay and Blakiston (Philadelphia). Third Edition, 1852 (first published in 1851). 260 pages. Hardcover. Authored by Herbert Mayo, M.D. (former surgeon and professor of anatomy), this volume includes chapters on ghosts, vampirism, trances, religious delusions, mesmerism, and hypnotism, analyzed from a scientific and physiological standpoint. Front and back covers are embossed with monograms. An overall firm copy of a scarce volume, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; light fading to spine and fraying to upper spine end; foxing to first and last few pages; interior is clean and free of markings save pencilled name of owner.
