Four portraits from the golden age of Mesmerism: concerning a convolute from the library of N.A. Kushelev-Bezborodko in the funds of Russian Academy of Sciences Library Rare Book Department
The article is devoted to the study of convolute from the library of N.A. Kushelev-Bezborodko in the funds of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library Rare Book Department, comprising four treatises written by two adherents and two adversaries of Mesmer’s doctrine. The author regarded it as a valuable source for the early history of magnetism.