Title: The Occult Arts: An Examination of the Claims
Made for the Existence and Practice of Supernormal Powers, and an Attempted
Justification of Some of Them by the Conclusions of the Researches of Modern
Science
Author: J.W. Frings
Publisher: David McKay, Publisher
City: PhiladelphiaYear: 1913 (2nd Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 236Illustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: Scarce second edition from 1913 of The Occult Arts: An Examination of the Claims Made for the Existence and Practice of Supernormal Powers, and an Attempted Justification of Some of Them by the Conclusions of the Researches of Modern Science. By J.W. Frings. Original royal blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front board. A generally sympathetic survey of various of the
occult arts in the light of the discoveries of (then) modern science. Chapters
on: Alchemy, Astrology, Psychometry, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Spiritualism,
Hypnotism, Geomancy, Palmistry, Omens and Oracles. Tight binding; rubbing to corners and edges; slight warping to cloth of back board; black mottling to areas of boards (mainly back, due to perhaps coloring it); internally clean and unmarked, save normal age-toning. Please see pictures for more detail.
