

In brief he believed that "From the first dawn of light upon this infant globe, when round its cradle the stormy curtains hung, Nature has been photographing every moment." All that a suitably skilled medium needed to do to access these ethereal "photos" or images of far-flung lands from throughout history, was to obtain a suitably related artifact which he or she could use to create a psychic link. William Denton (1823-1883) was a Professor of Geology of Boston, famous for his researches into psychometry, which he studied from 1853 up to his death in 1883.

Original black cloth with blind rules to front boards and gilt titling to spines. Wellesley and Boston: Denton Publishing Company / Mrs. or Psychometric Researches and Discoveries: Volumes I & II ( only, of 3).
