Henry seybert (9 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 159 pages. Good plus. Spine has gold lettering on brown background. No dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine and front cover. Spine is faded with fraying at the top and bottom. Discolored areas on the rear board, with spotting and less discolored areas on the front. Spine is shaken, front board separating at inside gutter. Text block with light plus age toning and a few scattered pencil annotations. Shelved in Alcove. 1391926. Special Collections.…

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Zustand: Very Good. Henry Seybert. Preliminary Report of the Comission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. (19 x 15 cm) pp. 159. Bound in olive publisher's cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Flyleaves and pastedowns in dark blue. Ex-library with only card catalogue pouch adhered to front pastedown and rubber stamp 1083, else unmarked. Interior crisp and clean. Exterior in very good shape as well with some shelfware to corners, but otherwise crisp. Front fly leaf has a small rip in the the middle. Overall VERY GOOD condition. This book shares the results of the Seybert Commission, an investigation undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania in 1883 following the request of Henry Seybert to examine whether scientific evidence could prove the existence of a spirit world. A commission of Penn faculty-including physicians, scientists, philosophers, and scholars-spent four years interviewing mediums, attending séances, collecting advertisements and correspondence, and carefully documenting alleged supernatural phenomena during the height of the American Spiritualist movement. The commission approached the subject as a serious academic inquiry, reflecting both the popularity of spiritualism after the Civil War and the university's commitment to fulfilling Seybert's conditions. In its 1887 preliminary report, represented by this publication, however, the investigators concluded that they had found no convincing evidence that mediums could communicate with the dead, and the commission was subsequently dissolved without issuing a final report. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some cover wear,1893 owner's name on ffep and page 65, a few scattered pencil markings otherwise a nice copy of a scarce item. According to Wikipedia "The Seybert Commission was a group of faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania who in 1884-1887 investigated a number of respected spiritualist mediums, uncovering fraud or suspected fraud in every case that they examined.". Illustrated (illustrator).…