A very nicely preserved first edition [of the expanded second French edition] of de Boismont's influential work on the potential pyschological basis or interaction of paranormal and supranatural experiences.

de Boismont, A. Brierre [1797-1881]. A History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism. First American, from the Second Enlarged and Improved Paris Edition. Philadelphia. Lindsay and Blakiston. 1855. 553pp. 

Very good condition in original blind and gold stamped cloth; faded, but very solid and attractive. Textually very good, solid and clean. A much better than usual example.