A Treatise of Ghosts: Being the Psichologie, or Treatise upon Apparitions and Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Figures, Strange Prodigies, and of other Miracles and Marvels, which often presage the Death of some Great Person, or signify some swift Change in Public Affairs. written in French by the learned Father Noel Taillepied, of the Order of Capuchins, and now first translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by Montague Summers

London: The Fortune Press, 1933. First Edition [Later Variant]. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition [Later Variant]. Hardcover. Originally published in Paris, 1588, as "Psichologie ou traite de l'apparition des Esprits.' Father Noel Taillepied was a Franciscan friar; who wrote this study of ghost lore was written to prove the existence of spirits and the afterlife. From the jacket: "There is no other book that so admirably sums up and so intelligently discusses the whole question of supernatural apparitions. Taillepied deals with such points as the Theophanies of the Old Testament, the Witch of Endor, haunted houses and how they may be cleared, somnambulism, poltergeists, how a man must conduct himself if he encounter a ghost. This is a book no Spiritualist can afford to neglect...." However lacking on spine, with "Edited by Montague Summers" in gilt, which is not found on the later variants. (D'Arch-Smith, B26). Light shelf/edge wear, light creasing, toning, chipping to dj, small closed tear at joint, repair head of spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, many pages uncut, untrimmed, in yellow printed dust jacket. 8vo. xix, 263pp. Commentary. Indexes. Page xix is misbound, between half-title and tp.