SKETCHES OF IMPOSTURE, DECEPTION, AND CREDULITY - 1840 SUPERSTITIONS HOAX FRAUD MAGIC & CONJURING - The Nervous Breakdown: Its

- The Nervous Breakdown: Its Cause and Prevention

The Gravure Illustrations company was the first company on a commercial scale in the late 1800s to take advantage of a new photographic process which shortened the time and complexity to create photogravures  and used those efforts to document and produce large photogravure portfolios documenting specific cities and rural areas around the United States

Title: SPIRITISM

Nature of Prayer

Leather spine with marbled boards stating a Reading Library

SKETCHES OF IMPOSTURE, DECEPTION, AND CREDULITY - 1840 SUPERSTITIONS HOAX FRAUD MAGIC & CONJURING - The Nervous Breakdown: ItsSKETCHES OF IMPOSTURE, DECEPTION, AND CREDULITY Book Details + Condition: Bradbury & Evans (London). Second Edition, 1840. 368 pages. Hardcover. Measures 6. 5"x4. 5". Written by Richard A. Davenport as a guide to the many frauds and delusions of the time. Chapters include "Hindoo and Other Oriental Superstitions,"The South Sea Bubble," Medical Delusions and Fraud," and more. Frontispiece of Joan of Arc. Marked as property of Indianapolis Public