Magic and mental disorder
Subtitle: Sir Hans Sloane's memoir of John Beaumont
By: edited by Michael Hunter
Contributors: Hunter, Michael Cyril William
Publisher: Robert Boyle Project
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
ISBN-13: 9780955160844
Subjects: Occultists
Notes: "Sir Hans Sloane's memoir of the Somerset virtuoso and occultist, John Beaumont (c.1640-1731), is here published and in full for the first time in annotated form and with an English translations. Sloane wrote it in French in 1740 and sent it to his French contact, the abbé Bignon, whose comments on it survive and are also reproduced here" -- publisher's info.