‎Mesmer Franz Anton‎
‎Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.‎

‎MESMER (M.). Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal. P., Didot, 1779, (1), 6pp., 85pp. ; EDITION ORIGINALE ---- Relié à la suite : D'ESLON (M.). Observations sur le magnétisme animal. P., Didot, 1780, (2), 151pp. ; EDITION ORIGINALE ---- Soit 2 OUVRAGES reliés en un volume‎

‎P., Didot, 1779 (MESMER), 1780 (D'ESLON), 2 OUVRAGES reliés en un volume in 8 plein veau moucheté, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches jaspées (reliure de l'époque), (un coin très légèrement émoussé), (1), 6pp., 85pp. ; (2), 151pp.‎

‎---- Les deux ouvrages sont en EDITIONS ORIGINALES ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A foundational work in the history of modern psychology". (Crabtree N° 10 pour l'ouvrage de Mesmer) ---- En français dans le texte N° 171 (pour l'ouvrage de Mesmer) : "Ce mémoire permet de prendre la mesure d'une pratique révolutionnaire dont les prolongements aux siècles suivants furent essentiels. Du somnambulisme provoqué à l'hypnose et à la psychanalyse, l'expérience contemporaine de la psychiatrie dynamique, la découverte de l'inconscient et la guérison par l'esprit trouvent leur origine dans l'audace autoritaire et maladroite des intuitions du précurseur Mesmer" ---- GARRISON N° 4992.1 (pour l'ouvrage de Mesmer) : "Mesmer promoted his system of treatment, based on this confused doctrine of a universal magnetic fluid influencing tides and men alike, with books and great personal showmanship. His treatment became such a popular health care sensation in France that it was as much a social movement as a medical practice. The Ancien régime considered the leaders of the animal magnetism movement to be politically dangerous. The attention Mesmer directed toward hypnosis and suggestion in psychiatry led eventually to its scientific investigation by Braid and others. It also led to the more scientific development of suggestion in treatment, which has been termed after him "mesmerism". Following an enquiry instituted by Louis XVI, Mesmer's career came to an abrupt end" ---- Heirs of Hippocrate N° 1013 - PMM N° 225 - Honeyman N° 2218 - Norman N° M4 - Barrucand N° 259 - Hunter & Macalpine pp. 480/482- DSB IX pp. 325/328 (pour l'ouvrage de Mesmer) ---- Norman N° M77 (pour l'ouvrage de D'ESLON): "In his major treatise on magnetism, d'Eslon describes his first encounter with animal magnetism and how he became convinced of its efficacy. It also gives the details of eighteen cases treated by Mesmer under his observation, one of the patients being d'Eslon himself" - Crabtree N° 12**3663/ARM4‎

‎Recherches et Doutes sur le Magnétisme Animal par THOURET [suivi de] Mémoire sur la Découverte du Magnétisme Animal, par MESMER [suIVI DE] Lettre sur le Secret de M. Mesmer, Ou Réponse d'un Médecin à un autre [...] [suivi de] Système raisonné du Magnétisme universel d'après les principes de M. Mesmer [...].‎

‎ Ensemble de 4 textes reliés en 1 volume in-18 de 135x85x35 mm environ. 1784, chez Prault, xxxv-251 pages / 1779, à Genève et à Paris, chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune, Imprimeur de Monsieur, 85 pages (rare) / 1782, à Paris chez Méquignon, 22 pages. / 1786, chez Gastelier, v-(1)-133 pages. Demi-basane brune, dos lisse portant titres dorés, orné de petits fleurons et filets dorés. Probable édition originale de Thouret, incomplète (manque les 8 premières pages de l'avant-propos, la page de faux-titre et la partie inférieure de la page de titre). Édition originale de Retz. Manque les pages 85-86 du Système raisonné du magnétisme universel. Coupes rapées, début de fente sur un mors, marges rognées très près du texte de Mesmer (avec manque d'un caractère en fin/début de ligne du texte des pages 69/70), des rousseurs.‎

‎Rare édition originale de Mesmer. Merci de nous contacter à l'avance si vous souhaitez consulter une référence au sein de notre librairie.‎

‎Mesmerism by Doctor Mesmer being the first translation of Mesmer's historic Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal to appear in english with an introductory monograph by Gilbert Frankau‎

‎London, McDonald, 1948, un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 1 portrait, 63pp.‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE**3662/F3‎

‎Mémoire sur la Découverte du Magnétisme Animal; par M. Mesmer, ....‎

‎A Geneve, et se trouve à Paris, Chez P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, Librairie-Imprimeur de Monsieur, 1779. (2), vi, 85, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments (corners lightly bumped). Printing and the Mind of Man, 225; En Français dans le Texte, 171; Garrison-Morton 4992.1; Grolier 100 'Medicine', 47; Norman M4. The very rare first edition. Discussing and describing one of the best-remembered 'alternative' medicines of all time. Mesmer maintained 'that a magnetic fluid pervades the universe, exists in every living being, and affects the nervous system. Experimenting with the use of his "magnetism" he found that there was a healing magnetic power in his own hands and that he could obtain results in treating nervous disorders without a magnet, a faculty which he called ''animal magnetism''' (PMM). Whilst 'Mesmerism' in its own right was discredited, Mesmer's theories laid the foundation for hypnosis and suggestion theories. Indeed Mesmer himself induced sleep, known as 'Mesmeric sleep' which term was used before James Braid coined the term 'hypnosis'. 'Since his time the investigation of how to release subconscious states through auto- and hetero-suggestion has continued, and the whole field of extra-sensory perception and spiritualism has affinity with mesmerism [as does] the development of psychoanalysis' (PMM).Mesmer lived for some time in a comfortable town house in Vienna before he moved to Paris, where he had enough time and money to indulge his passion for music. He was well befriended with the Mozarts and Mozart's first opera, Bastien und Bastienne took place in Mesmer's garden, and Mozart later made room for mesmerism in a scene in Cosi fan tutte.But there is another side to this book as well, a political side. 'The crashing failure of the Social Contract, Rousseau's least popular book before the Revolution, raises a problem for scholars searching for the radical spirit in the 1780's: if the greatest political treatise of the age failed to interest many literate Frenchmen, what form of radical ideas did suit their tastes? One such form appeared in the unlikely guise of animal magnetism or mesmerism. Mesmerism aroused enormous interest during the pre-revolutionary decade; and although it had originally no relevance whatsoever to politics, it became, in the hands of radical mesmerists like Nicolas Bergasse and Jacques-Pierre Brissot, a camouflaged political theory very much like Rousseau's' (R. Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, Boston, 1968). - Some light marginal browning. ‎