From Swann Catalogue: Silver prints, approximately 45 are 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches and smaller, the rest mounted on album pages and are generally 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. 8vo, leatherette, light edgewear.
Mathouillot, an electrical engineer and medium, was the director of an association devoted to psychic phenomena. Séance photographs show Miss Foreman, an English medium, and the French mediums Mmes.. Receveur, Sartiaux, and Buttinger, among others.
Includes more than 140 photographs of séances during a 5-year period, many with him present comprising 3 albums containing 71 prints, each print annotated with copious notes as to date, time, and spirit manifestations; approx. 40 photos of Marguerite Buttinger at work, and additional scenes; plus 6 notebooks, including 3 with automatic writing; 60 lantern slides from the prints; in addition to 9 miscellaneous items, and a rosary,