Signed original typescript of Christian Ideas of the Future Life", here originally titled "The Psychical Revival. 1920. (15 pages quarto, bearing a number of autograph corrections). Good condition. (95585). Ferguson Wright Hume (1859-1932) was a prolific English novelist, having produced more than 100 novels and short stories. More
Manuscript on paper, [1611], entirely hand written in Latin, elegantly decorated and illustrated, including several cariactures, in pen. 405 leaves, 810 pages. (20 x 15 cm). Original vellum covers, blank preliminaries distressed, scattered worming, minimally affecting text, contents virtually intact. (26208). Inscriptions: Excommunicatione ... (Pages 292 ff)—De Excommunicationibus receruatis a...... More
Manuscript on paper, written in Spanish in clear and legible cursive script. Spain, last quarter of sixteenth century, 55 leaves, 116 pages, including full-page painted illustrations. Folio (30 x 21.5 cm). Original vellum binding, stitched, margins frayed, text not affected.—The four distinct narrative in the manuscript are all of great..... More
Signed original autograph manuscript of "Mysticism and Spiritualism". 1920. (4 pages quarto, with extensive corrections and revisions. (1920). Good condition. (94837). "From the point of view of a student of spiritual literature, one of the most remarkable and distressing characteristics of 'Spiritualism' is the thoroughly unspiritual tone of its revelations..... More
Original autograph manuscript of "The Divine Medium". 1920. (14 pages quarto, bearing quite a few revisions). Good condition. (74878). "Genius is the only medium through which Heaven yet made any spiritual revelation to mankind." The author goes on to discuss, in detail, mesmerism, suggestion, telepathy, clairvoyance, automatic writing, necromacy, apparitions..... More