Anthony Todd Thomson M D (3 results)
Published by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London, 1841
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerxii, 506 pp. plus pub. cat. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Old ownership signature; big chips to spine affecting lettering; a few pages roughly opened; otherwise clean, tight and sound.
Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1846
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English translation of Des sciences occultes ou Essai sur la Magie, les prodiges et les miracles (1829). Two volumes. 387 pp. Hardcovers, bound in later full buckram with new endpapers. Bookplates; a few modest, scattered blemishes; marginal notations on a few leaves.
More imagesPublished by London, Bentley, 1846., 1846
- Hardcover
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.Alexanderplatz Books
Contact seller5-star sellerirst edition. Two volumes, complete. Very good set in original embossed cloth, neatly repaired split of about 1" on left side of spine of vol. 1. Contemporary owner's name on front free endpaper. A wide-ranging work, touching on many subjects with examples from ancient history. The Scottish editor approached the work in the spir…it of the Scottish Enlightenment. In his career as a physician he was particularly concerned with materia medica (pharmaceuticals), a subject that comes up in the book. We quote the following modern synopsis [our comments are in brackets]: "This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771-1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849), and published in two volumes. Thomson explains that Salverte's work was an important study of miracles and the power of priests [i.e., pagan priests and authorities presiding over temples and sacred sites], and he had 'performed a beneficial service in throwing open the gates of ancient sanctuaries'. However, Thomson also states that he differed from Salverte over the idea of the miraculous, and that he had expunged or heavily edited any passages relating to Christianity [not out of opposition to Christianity, rather the opposite], even changing 'miracles' in the original subtitle to 'apparent miracles'. Volume 2 discusses the role of drugs and poison [and also perfume] in magic, as well as the influence of weather on miraculous events." A well preserved set in original publisher's bindings, and very uncommon thus.
