The Apocatastasis; or Progress Backwards (1854) [Attack on Spiritualism]

[Marsh, Leonard]. The Apocatastasis; or Progress Backwards: A New "Tract for the Times". Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1854. First Edition. [8353] Signed "Prof. Leonard Marsh, M.D." in brown ink below the line By the Author on the title page. Black cloth, 6 x 9 inches, small worming to front board and thin loss of cloth at front outer hinge. Ends & tips worn. Binder's ticket, "E. A. Fuller, Book-Binder, Burlington, Vt." top of front paste-down. Two paste stains on the second free fly page which are shadowed on the title page (see pics). Small emboss stamp, "Joseph A. Sadony | Private" on tp. 202 (1) clean pp. Good. The former owner, Joseph Alexander Sadony (1877-1960), b. Mountbauer, Germany; d. Muskegon, Michigan. He was considered to be a leading authority on the subject of mental phenomena and sought for a theory that would encompass all of science that would include psychic and spiritual phenomena.A rather turgid examination of Spiritualism, pronouncing it a backwards return (