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(MESMER, FRANZ ANTON.) Husson, Henri-Marie. Report on the Magnetical Experiments made by the Commission of the Royal Academy of Medicine, of Paris, read in the Meetings of June 21 and 28, 1831. . . translated from the French, and preceded with an Introduction, by Charles Poyen St. Sauveur. Small 8vo, original cloth with paper lettering piece, joints partly worn through; scattered foxing. Front pastedown signed "Charles Poyen M.D." in (another?) contemporary hand. Boston, 1836
first edition in english of a favorable report on animal magnetism. "The translator is . . . a key figure in the early popularization of animal magnetism in the United States. His long introduction is an important document in itself"--Crabtree 374. Norman M96; Rieber & Gach 224. Accompanied by an undated lithographed facsimile of a manuscript fair copy of the French text. 80, [1] pages. 4to, modern 1/4 calf; contents partly loose in binding, outer margins trimmed with some text loss. [Paris]: (Lith. de Delaunois), nd. Not in Crabtree.
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