Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / c by Charles Mackay.
Series: [Howard Collection]
Publisher: Office of National illustrated library
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Impostors and imposture.; Swindlers and swindling.; Occultism.; Hallucinations and illusions.; Social psychology.
Other titles: Extraordinary popular delusions
Notes: "Illustrated with numerous engravings"

Howard Collection, cabinet no. 8.
Table of contents: value: V. 1. The Mississippi scheme; value: The South-sea bubble; value: The tulipomania; value: The alchymists; value: Modern prophecies; value: Fortune-telling; value: The magnetisers; value: Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard.; value: v. II. The Crusades; value: The Witch mania; value: The slow poisoners; value: Haunted houses; value: Popular follies of great cities; value: Popular admiration of great thieves; value: Duels and ordeals; value: Relics.