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: William Rider and Son, Limited
City: LondonYear: 1913 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 240Illustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: Scarce first edition from 1913 (London) 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. Original purple-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. Spine heavily faded, some light rubbing and a few light marks to boards which are slightly
bowed, edges rubbed, previous owner's stamp on inside front cover, otherwise internally clean and free of markings.
