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DAVIS, Alexander H.
Angel Teachings in the Great Book of Nature:
An Effort to enlighten and restore the Great Family of Man to the Harmony of Nature. Volume I [all published].
Publisher: New York: Published by the Author, 1860
Stock code: 68158
Price: £150 Currency Conversion
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, OCLC records the BL copy only. Davis seems to have been an "eclectic" - a doctor specializing in herbal simples - promoting some form of complementary medicine, including a vegetarian diet, who practised for a while in the New York area, and he certainly marketed a number of patent medicines. In the present work he aims to "enlighten and qualify all mankind to read the great Book of Nature," by the way of a species of loosely Biblically-based Hermeticism, received by psychic "pronunciamento" from Benjamin Franklin. "In the production of the second volume, I am impressed to give notice that I have been informed that Confucius, Cullen, Galen, Newton, Copernicus, and many others will assist in its production" (Author's introduction). No second volume was published.
Octavo. Original brown blind-stamped combed cloth, title gilt to the spine. Somewhat worn, particularly at the corners, head and tail of the spine chipping, lacks the front free endpaper, small piece torn from the lower corner of the index leaf, no loss of text, and final blank, light toning, overall about very good.
