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Editore: Richard Bentley, 1847
Da: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Condizione: Fair. First English edition. First edition, 1847. Two volumes in one, complete. Spine missing, boards loose and partially covered with old wallpaper. Small light library stamp at the top corner of the title page and biographical sketch. Text block is very sound, ready for rebinding. Light chipping to front edge of endpapers, else text is good to very good with nicely marbled edges. A biographical sketch on the distinguished nature of the author's life work, and an extended preface by the translator, setting the approach of the work in its context and comparing noted theories of the nature of the marvelous from a post enlightenment perspective, of the various 'tools of the trade' of magicians, priests and others through the centuries. Extensively footnoted, with a general index.