Quitman, Frederick Henry | A minister's investigation of magic

Quitman, Frederick Henry

A Treatise on Magic, or, on the Intercourse Between Spirits and Men… Albany: Balance Press, 1810

12mo (165 x 100 mm). Errata slip pasted to final leaf; browning, foxing, and staining, pencil marks to final page, errata slip torn costing some text, lacking final blank. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper-covered boards; overall rubbed with some loss particularly to corners, staining, endleaves foxed and creased with some pencil annotations. 

In this work a Lutheran minister's account of poltergeist phenomena in Rhinebeck, New York, leads to his investigation of magic and spirits. In distinguishing between magic and effects produced by natural means, he mentions sleight-of-hand, and specifically the gun trick, for which he gives an explanation (p. 74).

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