Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions / by Charles Mackay.
| Author/creator | Mackay, Charles |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : R. Bentley, 1841. |
| Description | 3 v. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | v. 1. The Mississippi scheme -- The South-Sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- Relics -- Modern prophecies -- Popular admiration for great thieves -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- Duels and ordeals -- The love of the marvellous and the disbelief of the true -- Popular follies in great cities -- The O.P. mania -- The thugs, or phansigars -- v. 2. The Crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- v. 3. book 1. The alchymists; or, searchers for the philosopher's stone and the water of life -- book 2. Fortune telling -- book 3. The magnetisers. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
| General note | Sabin no. 43356. |
| References | RLIN, CTRG97-B801 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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