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MESMER, Franz Anton (1734-1815). Collection of 48 works in 29 volumes (including a few duplicates). Various imprints, dates and formats. A comprehensive collection containing numerous editions and translations of Mesmer's works (a few works by other Mesmerists or anti-Mesmerists included when bound together). For a more complete individual description of the works included, please consult the Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine private library catalogue (San Francisco, 1991), vol. II, pp. 872-907.
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Mmoire sur la dcouverte du magntisme animal. Geneva and Paris: P.-F. Didot le jeune, 1779. 8o, original marbled wrappers, UNCUT AND UNOPENED; quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF THE MANIFESTO OF MESMERISM (see lot 669). PMM 225; Tischner 10; Norman M5. -- Schreiben ber die Magnetkur. N.p., 1776. 8o, stitched, original paper spine (few internal tears). Second separate edition, first issue (without third gathering). Tischner 5; Norman M2. -- Second issue of previous (with third gathering containing "Anhang von einegen Briefen und Nachrichten"). Tischner 6; Norman M3. -- [bound with:] Mmoire sur la dcouverte du magntisme animal. Geneva and Carlsruhe: Michel Maklot, 1781. 8o, (lacks half-title). Tischner 11; Norman M9. -- [bound with:] Abhandlung ber die Entdeckung des thierischen Magnetismus. Translated from the French. Carlsruhe: Michael Macklot, 1781. 8o. First edition in German. Tischner 12; Norman M11. 3 works bound in one volume, contemporary marbled boards. -- Mmoire su la dcouverte du magntisme animal. Geneva and Paris: P.-F. Didot le jeune, 1779. 12o, modern mottled sheep. First duodecimo edition (possibly a piracy). Norman M6. -- Mmoire sur la dcouverte du magntisme animal. Geneva and Carlsruhe: Michel Maklot, 1781. 8o. Second edition. Tischner 11; Norman M7 -- [bound with:] Charles d'ESLON (1750-1786). Observations sur le magntisme animal. London and Carlsruhe: Michel Maklot, 1781. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Norman 77. 2 works in one volume, 19th-century half calf. -- "Mmoire sur la dcouverte du magntisme animal," in: Recueil des pices les plus intressantes sur le magntisme animal. N.p., 1784. 8o, original marbled wrappers, uncut. First edition of the Recueil, containing a reprint of the Mmoire. Norman M10. -- Kurze Geschichte des thierischen Magnetismus bis April 1781. Carlsruhe: Michael Macklot, 1783. 8o. First edition in German. Tischner 14; Norman M16. -- [Bound with:] Abhandlung ber die Entdeckung des thierischen Magnetismus. Carlsruhe: Michael Macklot, 1781. 8o. First edition in German, variant state of title-page with woodcut title-ornament reversed (see Norman M11 in this lot). Norman M13. -- [Bound with:] Schreiben ber die Magnetkur. N.p., 1776. 8o. Second separate edition, second issue. Tischner 6; another copy of Norman M3. -- [Bound with:] Charles d'ESLON. Beobachtung ber den thierischen Magnetismus. Carlsruhe: Michael Macklot, 1781. 8o. First edition in German. Norman M79. -- [Bound with:] Peter VON OSTERWALD and Jacques DE HARSU. Fortsetzung der Schreiben die Mesmerischen Magnetkuren betreffend. Augsburg: n.p., 1777. 8/so. FIRST EDITION. Norman M86. 5 works in one volume, contemporary mottled sheep. -- Prcis historique des faits relatifs au magntisme-animal jusques en avril 1781. Edited and translated into French from German by Charles d'Eslon. London, Lige and Spa: Bollen, 1781. 8o, contemporary half calf. Provenance: Comte de Borch (bookplate); Dr. Kster (stamp). FIRST EDITION, variant issue A (with publisher's name in imprint on title-page). Tischner 13; Norman M14. -- Another issue, original plain gray wrappers, uncut. Variant B (without publisher's name in imprint). Norman M15. -- Au roi [drop title]. N.p., n.d. [circa 1784]. 8o, modern wrappers. Norman M18. -- Lettres de M. Mesmer M. Vicq-d'Azyr, et messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris. Brussels: n.p., 1784. 8o, stabbed as issued, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 85; Norman M24. -- Lettre de l'auteur de la dcouverte du magntisme animal, l'auteur des rflexions prliminaires. N.p.: for Chez Gastelier Libraire (mounted slip on final leaf), n.d. 8o. FIRST EDITION of Mesmer's response to Eprmesnil (see Norman M76 in this volume). Crabtree 144; Norman M19. -- [Bound with:] Lettres de M. Mesmer, M. Vicq-d' Azyr, et messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris. Brussels: for Gastelier (mounted slip on title), 1784. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 85; Norman M23. -- [Bound with:] Lettres de M. Mesmer, messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et M. Franklin. N.p.: for Gastelier (mounted slip on title), n.d. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 84; Tischner 15; Norman M25. -- [Alexandre Andr Philippe Frdric BACHER]. Grande, belle dcouverte. Magntisme animal [drop title]. Paris: Didot, 1783. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 28; Norman M44. -- [Bound with:] Nicolas BERGASSE. Observations de M. Bergasse sur un ecrit du Docteur Mesmer. London: n.p., 1785. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 123; Darnton, pp. 72, 78-80; Wellcome II, p.147; Norman M51. -- [Bound with:] BERGASSE. Supplment aux observations de M. Bergasse [half-title]. N.p., n.d. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 124; Norman M54. -- [Bound with:] SOCIT DE L'HARMONIE. Du Mercredi 25 Mai 1785 [drop title]. N.p.: for Gastelier (mounted slip), n.d. 2 leaves. Darnton, p. 72; Norman M71. -- Jean Jacques Duval d'EPRMESNIL. Sommes verses entre les mains de Monsieur Mesmer, pour acqurir le droit de publier sa dcouverte [drop title]. N.p.: for Gastelier (mounted slip), n.d. 4 leaves. Crabtree 136; Darnton, pp. 51-52; Norman M76. -- Lettre d'un mdecin de Paris, un mdecin de Province [drop title]. N.p.: for Gastelier (mounted slip), n.d. [1784]. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 86; Norman M104. 9 works in one volume, contemporary calf. -- Lettre de M. Mesmer, M. le comte de C*** [drop title]. N.p., n.d. 4o, stabbed as issued, uncut. First quarto edition. Crabtree 82; Darnton, pp. 85-86; Norman M21. -- Lettres de M. Mesmer, M. le comte de *** N.p., n.d. 8o, marbled boards. First octavo edition. Norman M22. -- Lettres de M. Mesmer, messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et M. Franklin. N.p., n.d. 8o, marbled boards. Later edition. Norman M26. -- Aphorismes de M. Mesmer. Edited by Caullet de Veaumorel. Paris: Quinquet l'an, 1785. 12o, later vellum, original printed wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 129; Norman M27. -- Another edition. [Paris: Quinquet], 1785. 12o, contemporary half sheep. Second edition. Norman M28. -- Another edition. Paris: Bertrand, 1785. 8o. Third edition. Norman M29. -- [Bound with:] Jean Franois FOURNEL. Essai sur les probabilits du somnambulisme magntique. Amsterdam and Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveauts, 1785. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 139; Wellcome III, p.48; Norman M87. -- [Bound with:] A.A. TARDY DE MONTRAVEL. Essai sur la thorie du somnambulisme magntique. London: n.p., 1785. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 152; Norman M149. 3 works bound in one volume, contemporary half mottled sheep. -- Aphorismes de M. Mesmer. Paris: n.p., 1786. 2 volumes in one, 12o, original plain wrappers, uncut. Fourth edition. Norman M30. -- Lehrszze des Herrn Mesmer's. Edited by L. Caullet de Veaumorel. Strassburg: Akademischen Buchhandlung, 1785. 8o. First edition in German. Tischner 22; Norman M31. -- [Bound with:] Neue Beitrge zur praktischen Anwendung des Thierischen Magnetismus. Strassburg: Akademischen Buchhandlung, 1786. 8o. FIRST EDITION, this supplement to the German edition of Mesmer's Aphorisms includes a translation of Johann Nicolaus Pechlin's account of Valentine Greatrakes (see also lot 478), taken from his Observationibus physico-medicis (1691). Norman M115. 2 works bound in one volume, original boards. -- Mmoire de F.A. Mesmer ... sur ses dcouvertes. Paris: Lesguilliez for Fuchs, 1798/99. 8o, contemporary boards. FIRST EDITION, in which Mesmer attempted to eradicate all traces of the occult from animal magnetism. Crabtree 211; Norman M32. -- Another edition, edited by Joseph Louis Picher de Grandchamp. Paris: Pierre Maumus, 1826. 8o, later quarter cloth. Second edition. Tischner 25; Norman M33. -- Another copy, original printed wrappers, uncut. Norman M34. -- Adresse aux mres de famille [drop title]. N.p., n.d. 4 leaves. Norman M36. -- [Bound with:] Lettres de F.A. Mesmer D.M. sur l'origine de la petite vrole, et le moyen de la faire cesser. Paris: Imprimerie des Sciences et Arts, 1800. 4o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 216; Tischner 26; Norman M37. -- [Bound with:] Prcis de la dcouverte du magntisme animal, avec une lettre sur le flux et reflux. N.p., n.d. 8o. Norman M38. 3 works bound in one, contemporary mottled stiff wrappers. -- Mesmerismus. Oder System der Wechselwirkungen, Theorie und Anwendung des thierischen Magnetismus. Berlin: Nikolaischen Buchhandlung, 1814. 8o. Stipple-engraved portrait of Mesmer. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 250; Tischner 31; Norman M39. -- [Bound with:] Karl Christian WOLFART. Erluterung zum Mesmerismus. Berlin: Nikolaischen Buchhandlung, 1815. 8o. FIRST EDITION. Crabtree 256; Norman M153. 2 works bound in one volume -- Allgemeine Erluterungen ber den Magnetismus und den Somnambulismus. Carlsruhe: n.p., 1815. 8o, original wrappers, uncut. Second edition. Norman M40. -- Magntisme animal. Mmoires et aphorismes de Mesmer, suivis des procds de d'Eslon. Edited by Jean Joseph Adolphe Ricard. Paris: Germer Baillire, 1846. 8o, original wrappers (from publisher's waste). First separate edition. Norman M41. (29)
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Mmoire sur la dcouverte du magntisme animal. Geneva and Paris: P.-F. Didot le jeune, 1779. 8