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The scarce 1st appearance of Emerson's essay on Demonology. As published in The North American Review for March-April, 1877. No. 255. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. Emerson defined his subject as covering "dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic, and other experiences." He also touches on superstitions, omens, ghosts, animal magnetism, mesmerism, spirits, and table-rapping. (Emerson had lectured on the subject in the late 1830s, and this 12-page essay appeared at a time of wide public interest in Spiritualism and the spirit world.) Complete issue in the original paper wraps with untrimmed page edges. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. Journal pagination: iv, [163]–340 pp., + 4 pp., of ads. Demonology is on pages 179-190. Other articles as shown. Fold-out, frontispiece map to accompany "English Arctic Expedition." Light wear and signs of age, but VG or better overall. Clean and securely bound. An uncommon 1st printing by Emerson (1802-1882), the leading voice of the transcendentalist movement in America.
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Demonology / 1st printing in The North American Review, 1877
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Signed letter / Francis Rolt-Wheeler, author and occultist, 1912 TLS
by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis (1876-1960)
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A humorous, typed letter signed by the English-born American author and occultist. Written in 1912 to literary anthologist Curtis Hidden Page after they mistakenly exchanged hats at the home of poet Edwin Markham. Gray personal stationery, 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine with original mailing folds. Will ship unfolded, as shown. Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1876-1960) was a popular and prolific author of books for boys before turning in mid-life to occult and esoteric subjects. He left America in the 1920s and lived and worked in North Africa and France for the rest of his life. He founded the Astrological Institute of Carthage and published the French journal L'Astrosophie, first in Tunisia and later in Nice. The Seer, an English-language version, was a monthly review of "Astrosophy and of the Psychic and Occult Sciences." His sister, Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, was an English journalist, poet, fellow esotericist and member of the Theosophical Society.
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