SEERESS OF PREVORST (PROVORST); REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE INNER LIFE OF MAN, AND THE INTER-DIFFUSION OF A WORLD OF SPIRITS IN THE ONE WE INHABIT
Book Details + Condition: Charles Partridge (New York). Early Edition, 1860. Very scarce. Softcover. 119 pages. This famous 1829 case study by German physician Justinus Kerner records the life and visions of German somnambulist and mystic Friederike Hauffe (1801–1829), a young woman who was bedridden for years, suffering from convulsions, and often falling into spontaneous trances. Through these trances, she experienced clairvoyant visions, prophetic dreams, and communication with spirits. The work introduced foundational concepts in early Spiritualism. Chapters include:
- Native Place and Early Youth
- Retiring Into the Inner-Life
- Outcoming of the Magnetic Condition
- Appearance in Weinsberg
- Description of the Seeress
- Effects of Water and Suspension of Gravity
- Effects of Imponderable Substances
- Seeing With the Pit of the Stomach
- Cure of Countess Von Maldeghem
- The Different Degrees of Magnetism
- The Sun-Sphere and Life-Sphere
- The Inner Language
- Relation of Spirit, Soul and Body
- The Life-Sphere Proper
- Relation of Life and Sun-Sphere
- The Magnetic Man
- Remarks on Ghost-Seeing
- Observations by Eschenmayer
- Belief in Spirits Grounded in Nature
- On the Middle-State
- Journal of Seeress
- Death of Seeress
Very scarce early copy with original covers. Firm binding; heavy wear to covers, with foxing and old tape (appears to be binding tape) to inner and outer spine, as well as to edges (also includes remnants of old plastic, as there may have been a protective covering at some point); name to front cover; bookplate with family crest to inside front cover (of Carlo Giovanni dei Carlotti); most of interior has red underlining (as well as pencilling) and other markings and notations. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
