Magic and mental disorder : Sir Hans Sloane's memoir of John Beaumont / edited by Michael Hunter.

London : Robert Boyle Project, 2011.

xxv, 21 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm

"Sir Hans Sloane's memoir of the Somerset virtuoso and occultist, John Beaumont (c.1640-1731), is here published and in full for the first time in annotated form and with an English translations. Sloane wrote it in French in 1740 and sent it to his French contact, the abbé Bignon, whose comments on it survive and are also reproduced here" -- publisher's info.