Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions, or an Attempt to trace such Illusions to their Physical Causes

Authors:

Hibbert Ware, Samuel (Dr.) (1782-1848)

Published:

Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1824

Format:

post 8vo., half calf neat

Catalogue description:

n/a

Number of volumes:

Languages:

English

Sale price:

£1. 10s.

Appears in:

Sotheran's Valuation (c1871)

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

Source reference:

S058.2; V12.12; C004.02/C068.07

Location in CD Junior's Catalogue:

Location in Sotheran's valuation:

Library, bookcases facing door, item 12

Stonehouse Catalogue:

That Dickens was a diligent reader of this curious work is shown by his memoranda on the margins of various pages. On p. 371 he has a rather long note on the illusion of the man 'who took every woman for his wife'.