‎PUYSEGUR (Chastenet de)‎
‎Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal -- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE -- Seconde édition EN PARTIE ORIGINALE AUGMENTEE des Suites des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal‎

‎Londres, 1786, un volume in 8 relié en PLEIN MAROQUIN VERT A GRAINS LONGS, dos richement orné de fers dorés, frises dorées sur les plats, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque), (petit manque de papier d'origine sans gravité dans la marge d'un feuillet), (2), 4pp., 411pp.‎

Reference : 4350

‎---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Seconde édition EN PARTIE ORIGINALE AUGMENTEE des Suites des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'établissement du magnétisme animal ---- "De tous les élèves directs de Mesmer, c'est certainement le Marquis de Puységur qui est le pus important...". (Barrucand, p. 30 et suivantes) ---- "The Marquis de Puységur was a wealthy, distinguished, and fashionable member of French society. He had early been won over to Mesmer's theories and became his ardent pupil and co-worker... It was while working with mesmerism that he discovered what he called somnambulism which eventually evolved into today's hypnotism". (Heirs of Hippocrates) ---- "Among Mesmer's most enthusiastic disciples were the three brothers De Puysegur. All three three brothers became Mesmer's students and played a role in the history of magnetism... The oldest brother, Armand-Marie-Jacques De Chastenet, sceptical at first above Mesmerism, he was converted to it by his brother Antoine-Hyacinthe and began to give individual and collective treatments on his estate... In France magnetism was taken up around 1805 by Puységur, who published several works on it. Together with those of Mesmer, they were considered for at least one generation as the great classics on the subject...". (Ellenberger pp. 70/76) ---- Barrucand p. 30 & suivantes - Heirs of Hippocrates - Postel & Quetel p. 698 - Zilboorg p. 349 - Crabtree N° 241 & 245 - Norman N° M60**4350/ARM1D‎