Traité de Métapsychique / Charles Richet - 1923 French Luxury Binding. ex-lib

Description: Traité de Métapsychique, by Charles Richet (Treatise on Metaphysics) Librairie Félix Alcan. Paris. 1923. Deuxième [Second] edition refondue... pp. (vi), IX, (i), 832 pp. 30 text illustrations. French language Rebind, in green binder's cloth, top edge gilt, H.V. on lower spine (PO initials??). Superb appearing bindings and cover sheets. The covers are emerald green leather with gorgeous gold stamping decorating all sides. The cover sheets are green toned marbled paper. Banded spine with gold titling. Gilded edges. Two silk ribbons. Sparsely illustrated. Charles Richet [1850-1935] was a Professor Medicine at Paris and a Nobel Prize winner in 1913 for his researches into anaphylaxis, a term that he coined. The above work on psychic phenomena is the result of many years research, translated into English in the same year as 'Thirty Years of Psychical Research'. In it he accepts various phenomena as valid, for example, telekinesis, cryptesthesia, ectoplasm, but rejects apports, levitation and the phenomenon of the double. Later work has shown that the mediumistic phenomena that he had accepted as genuine were in fact fraudulent, such as those of Marthe Béraud. His work was a sincere, scientific attempt to elucidate the claims of psychics and mediums, but lacked the apparatus to fully investigate their demonstrations. RR12

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