EL SATANISMO Ó SEA LA CÁTEDRA DE SATANÁS COMBITADA DESDE LA CÁTEDRA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO. REFUTACION DE LOS ERRORES DE LA ESCUELA ESPIRITISTA

Barcelona: Tipográfia de Espasa Hermamos [sic] y Salvat, 1879. Hardcover. Fair. 931 pp. Half title. In Spanish. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, gilt red leather label, marbled endpapers. Binding scuffed, extremities worn. Significant dampstain in lower-outer front board and text block (mostly in margins), causing light loss to corner of binding and front endpapers and chipping to first several leaves. Fair to good.

After the first edition of 1878. "Satanism, that is, The throne of Satan fought from the throne of the Holy Spirit. Refutation of the errors of the Spiritist school": an anti-Spiritist polemic by the Spanish priest and Carlist (truncated) politician, Vicente de Manterola y Pérez (1833-1891). Spiritism was an early offshoot of Spiritualism, codified in the mid-19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (1804-1869), under the name Allan Kardec. (Inventory #: 798)