PRACTICAL LESSONS IN HYPNOTISM AND MAGNETISM - De Laurence HYPNOSIS MAGIC, 1908

PRACTICAL LESSONS IN HYPNOTISM AND MAGNETISM: Giving the only simple and practical course in Hypnotism and Vital Magnetism which starts the student or practitioner out upon a plain, common sense basis — prepared especially for self-instruction Book Details + Condition: The de Laurence Company (Chicago), 1908. Red cloth with gilt and black designs and title, etc. to spine and upper board. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 261 pages, with Index. By Lauron William de Laurence (1868 - 1936), renowned book pirate, plagiarist, and publisher of occult literature. While this volume is similar to De Laurence's "Hypnotism, A Complete System of Method Application and Use" (1900) it is a separate work, and longer. De Laurence was notorious for taking other people's works and reissuing them under his own name (sometimes re-titling them in the process, as he did here). Despite his eccentricities, de Laurence played an important part in the occult history of the US: he was a pioneer in selling oc