Lot 666

THE PARANORMAL AND "PSEUDO-SCIENCE" - A. Freiherrn von SCHRENCK-NOTZING (1862-1929). Materialisations-Phaenomene, Münich, 1914, half tone illustrations including many of "ectoplasm", cloth. With 24 other books of related interest. (25)

Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £200
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

THE PARANORMAL AND "PSUEDO-SCIENCE" - A. Freiherrn von SCHRENCK-NOTZING (1862-1929).  Materialisations-Phaenomene. Ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Mediumistischen Teleplastie. Münich: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt, 1914. 4to (252 x 180mm). Half title, half tone plates and illustrations including many of purported "ectoplasm". Original dark blue cloth lettered in white (inner hinges weak, lightly rubbed and stained). Provenance: some pencil highlighting to text. FIRST EDITION. With 24 other books of related interest including the same author's Experimente der Fernbewegung (Telekinese) (Stuttgart, 1924, original cloth), H. Helfft's Handbuch der Balneotherapie. Praktischer Leitfaden bei Verordnung der Mineral-Brunnen und Bäder (Berlin, 1854, marbled paper boards with "tree calf" effect), Carl Bannfscheidt's Der Bannscheidtismus ... Neunte, bereicherte Auflage (Bonn, 1864, morocco-backed boards), Max Dessoir's Vom Jenseits der Seele ... Zweite Auflage (Stuttgart, 1918, original cloth-backed boards), Hans-Theodor Sanders' Hypnose und Suggestion (Stuttgart, 1921, original boards), Waldemar v. Wasielewiski's Telepathie und Hellsehen (Halle, 1922, original wrappers), Evans Gordon's Die Geheimen Mächte der Hypnose und Suggestion (Dresden, 1923, original wrappers), L'Abbé Th. Moreux's Les Autres Mondes sont-ils Habités? (Paris, 1923, plates, wrappers, new edition) and Oskar Fischer's Experimente mit Raphael Schermann. Ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Graphologie, Telepathie und des Hellsehens (Berlin, 1924, original cloth-backed boards). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. The lot sold not subject to return. (25)

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