Journal du Magnétisme et du Psychisme Expérimental

Journal du Magnétisme et du Psychisme Expérimental

Full title:

• Journal du Magnétisme et du Psychisme Expérimental – Fondé en 1845 par le Baron du Potet – Organe mensuel illustré de la Société magnétique de France (all issues held)

Editors:

• Durville, Hector; Durville, Docteur Gaston; Durville, Henri (all issues held)

Publication credits:

• Hector et Henri Durville, Éditeurs, 23, Rue St-Merri, Paris (IV^me) (Jan. – Mai 1913)
• Hector et Henri Durville, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 23, Rue St-Merri, Paris (IV^me) (Juin – Dec. 1913)
• Hector et Henri Durville, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 23, Rue Saint-Merri, Paris (IV^e) (Sep. – Dec. 1913)

Holdings:

• 41^e Vol., No. 4, Janvier 1913. (Some tearing towards extremities of spine. Short tears to bottom edges of leaves comprising pp. 165-174. More extensive tearing to lower outer margin of leaf comprising pp. 177-178.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 146-192] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 5, Février 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 194-236] + [1] + [pp. 238-240] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 6, Mars 1913. 4-page looseleaf pamphlet entitled “Supplément au Journal du Magnétisme, Janvier 1913…” (but with ‘Janvier’ crossed out and corrected in print to ‘Mars’) “…- Le Dolmen Celtique – Société Immobilière en Formation” laid in. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 242-282] + [1] + [pp. 284-7] + [1] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 7, Avril 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [2] + [pp. 291-332] + [2] + [pp. 335-6] + [1] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 8, Mai 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [2] + [pp. 337-373] + [1] + [pp. 375-384] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 9, Juin 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [pp. 385-420] + [1] + [pp. 422-432] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 10, Juillet 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [pp. 433-479] + [1] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^e Vol., No. 11, Août 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 482-528] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 41^me Vol., No. 12, Septembre 1913. (2 inches’ separation towards top of front hinge, but holding at top cm.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [2] + [pp. 531-576] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 1, Octobre 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + 48pp + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 2, [Novembre]^[1] 1913. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 50-83] + [1] + [pp. 85-96] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 3, Décembre 1913. Folded 4-page A4-sized flyer for Psychic Magazine, entitled “Supplément au Journal du Magnétisme, Décembre 1913”, laid in. (Covers detached from page-block but otherwise in fine condition.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 98-141] + [1] + [pp. 143-4] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 4, Janvier 1914. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 146-181] + [1] + [pp. 183-192] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 5, Février 1914. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 194-181] + [1] + [pp. 183-240] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 7, Avril 1914. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 290-336] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 8, Mai 1914. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [pp. 337-368] + [1] + [pp. 370-384] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 9, Juin 1914. [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [pp. 385-420] + [1] + [pp. 422-432] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 10, Juillet 1914. (Vertical crease down centre of covers and all internal leaves.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 434-443] + [2] + [pp. 446-8] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 11, Août 1914. (Vertical crease down centre of covers and all internal leaves.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [pp. 449-464] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 42^me Vol., No. 12, Septembre 1914. (Vertical crease down centre of covers and all internal leaves. Two short tears to outer edge of leaf comprising pp. 477-8.) [Front cover backed with table of contents] + [1] + [pp. 466-480] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]

Bibliographical note:

• This journal, while very broad-based, featured some widely-cited articles on astrology in 1913 and early 1914 – most notably, a dialogue between M. J. Brieu and Paul Choisnard (featured under his pen-name of the day Paul Flambart), whose response to Brieu’s serialised article appears in the November 1913 issue, after which Brieu replies in turn with his own serialised reply. One of Choisnard’s articles published in the short-lived specialised astrological journal L’Influence Astrale (q. v.) is also reproduced in mid-1914 in Journal du Magnétisme.

Binding format and presentation notes:

• All issues held as separate issues in their original thin card covers. Paperbacks.

 

[1] Misprinted as ‘Décembre’ on both front cover and inner title page, but duly corrected in the form of a stamp on front cover and in handwriting on inner title page to ‘Novembre’