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Elizabeth Singer ROWE L'Amitié après la mort, contenant les lettres des morts aux vivans. Et lettres morales et amusantes, par Madame Rowe

Elizabeth Singer ROWE

L'Amitié après la mort, contenant les lettres des morts aux vivans. Et lettres morales et amusantes, par Madame Rowe

Aux dépens de la Compagnie, à Amsterdam 1740, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (1) ; XXXV ; (33) ; 288 p.p. et (1) ; 267 p.p., 2 volumes reliés.


First edition of the French translation made from the fifth English edition.
Bound in full calf antique brown, back with four nerves decorated with boxes and gilded florets, red part of title, marbled edges, back and jaw slightly rubbed. A leaflet detached end volumes. Small ink drawings probably time on the final guard of the second volume.
Text of the English novelist and poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe, originally published in 1728 under the title Friendship in Death: in Twenty Letters from the Dead to the Living, which was a great success. This book is quoted by Allan Kardec Spiritualism father in the eighteenth century, in its review Spiritist 1868, where it is seen as a precursor text of the spiritualist movement, "We have said many times that if Spiritism had come a century earlier, he would have had no success; here are clear evidence because this book is certainly the purest and deepest Spiritualism. "(In Journal Spiritualist newspaper of psychological studies, Eleventh year 1868).

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