BRAID, James (1795?-1860). Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London and Edinburgh: 1843. Plum cloth. A later variant binding from that in the preceding lot. -- The Power of the Mind over the Body: An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Phenomena Attributed by the Baron Reichenbach and Others to a "New Imponderable." London and Edinburgh: 1846. Disbound. -- Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation. London and Edinburgh, 1850. Green cloth (text loose in binding). Discussion of Indian fakirs and hypnotic processes. -- Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, and Electro-biology. London and Edinburgh, 1852. Disbound. Third Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Braid to Dr. William Robertson (top of inscription touched). Contains a summary of Braid's views of all current theories of mesmerism and hypnotism. -- Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus. Berlin, 1881. Printed wrappers (spine chipped). First Edition in German of Neurypnology, etc., translated by Wilhelm Thierry Preyer. -- Der Hypnotismus. Berlin, 1882. Printed wrappers (spine very defective, rear cover detached). First Edition in German, a translation by Preyer of most of Braid's works excepting Neurypnology. -- [BRAID]. PREYER. Der Hypnotismus...Vienna and Leipzig, 1890. Printed wrappers (rebacked in leather, some chipping to covers). Preyer's treatise on hypnotism includes the first printing of Braid's "On the Distinctive Conditions of Natural and Nervous Sleep." -- [BRAID]. UN INITI (pseud.). Mystres des sciences occultes...Paris, n.d. Contemporary half blue cloth and marbled boards. A portrait of Braid - perhaps the only available one of him - appears on p. 289. Together 8 volumes, 8o or smaller. Original bindings, except as noted. FIRST EDITIONS, unless otherwise indicated. Norman 325-332. (8)

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BRAID, James (1795?-1860). Neurypnology; or, the Rationale of Nervous Sleep, Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism. London and Edinburgh: 1843. Plum cloth. A later variant binding from that in the preceding lot. -- The Power of the Mind over the Body: An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Phenomena Attributed by the Baron Reichenbach and Others to a "New Imponderable." London and Edinburgh: 1846. Disbound. -- Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation. London and Edinburgh, 1850. Green cloth (text loose in binding). Discussion of Indian fakirs and hypnotic processes. -- Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, and Electro-biology. London and Edinburgh, 1852. Disbound. Third Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Braid to Dr. William Robertson (top of inscription touched). Contains a summary of Braid's views of all current theories of mesmerism and hypnotism. -- Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus. Berlin, 1881. Printed wrappers (spine chipped). First Edition in German of Neurypnology, etc., translated by Wilhelm Thierry Preyer. -- Der Hypnotismus. Berlin, 1882. Printed wrappers (spine very defective, rear cover detached). First Edition in German, a translation by Preyer of most of Braid's works excepting Neurypnology. -- [BRAID]. PREYER. Der Hypnotismus...Vienna and Leipzig, 1890. Printed wrappers (rebacked in leather, some chipping to covers). Preyer's treatise on hypnotism includes the first printing of Braid's "On the Distinctive Conditions of Natural and Nervous Sleep." -- [BRAID]. UN INITI (pseud.). Mystres des sciences occultes...Paris, n.d. Contemporary half blue cloth and marbled boards. A portrait of Braid - perhaps the only available one of him - appears on p. 289. Together 8 volumes, 8o or smaller. Original bindings, except as noted. FIRST EDITIONS, unless otherwise indicated. Norman 325-332. (8)