Baltimore: n. p., 1860. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [5]-232 pages, as published. An extensive account of the author’s conversion to Spiritualist practice and beliefs (his orthodoxy is overturned after an experience in 1854 with table-tipping in Washington, D. C.), with extensive accounts here taken from..... More
Boston: Published by John P. Jewett and Company, 1855. First edition. 8vo, original brown or purple cloth, xvi, [1], 466 pages. The American philosopher turns his attention to Andrew Jackson Davis, Swedenborg, and the phenomenon of clairvoyance. Crabtree 746: “When Mahan undertook to investigate spiritualism, he expected to find that..... More
London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1737. First edition. 8vo, recent half calf and marbled sides, leather label on the upper board lettered in gilt (Farmer on Demoniacks), viii, 116 pages. “The Reader will find every Passage both in the Old Testament and the New, (except those of..... More
New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1836. Stated second edition, the second printing of the American edition. 8vo, original embossed rose cloth, gilt lettering, [i]-vi, [9]-278 pages. A philosophical consideration of the state of life after death. The first was published in London by Pickering in the same year; the first..... More
Santa Rosa, California: Published by the Author, Fountaingrove, 1891. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 314, [2] pages. “In the early spring of 1886 a phenomenon of planetary respiration was observed in a rural locality especially consecrated to the social service of the Brotherhood of New Life.” The..... More
