Brice de Beauregard

Notes and extracts on crystal-gazing in Russia, on the cabbalistic mirror, invocation of spirits, ceremonial magic, etc. In French. It includes a letter from Brice dated 15/9/1845, and one addressed to 'M. le Chevalier Brice', dated 6/10/1845, from Eugène Javary [ -1865].

1844-1846

1 volume 50 ll. 8vo. 181/2 x 111/2 cm. Unbound. The first leaf is a 4to. sheet 22 x 17 cm.: many of the notes are written on the backs of printed French post-office forms.

Purchased 1935.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).