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Author: Lauron William de Laurence.
Title: The Mystic Test Book of "the Hindu Occult Chambers", The Magic and Occultism of India, Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing, The Hindu Magic Mirror.
Publisher: Masonic Temple, Chicago, Ill. de Laurence, Scott & Company, 1909. First edition.
Size : 8 "X 5.5 ".  
Pages : 177 pages.
Binding: Good gilt decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, gilt on spine faded - as shown,  upper and lower part of spine worn and chipped - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown). 
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining - as shown). 
Illustrations: Including a frontispiece portrait of the author and a full-page illustration of Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing.

Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).

The book: Scarce First edition of de Laurence Mystic Test Book of "the Hindu Occult Chambers", The Magic and Occultism of India, Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing, The Hindu Magic Mirror.
According to the most recent regulations of the Jamaica Customs, prohibited items that are absolutely forbidden from entering Jamaica include "All publications of de Laurence Scott and Company of Chicago in the United States of America relating to divination, magic, cultism or supernatural arts."

The author: L. W. de Laurence (full name Lauron William de Laurence) was an American author and publisher on occult and spiritual topics.
His publishing company (De Laurence, Scott & Co.) and spiritual supply mail order house was located in Chicago, Illinois. De Laurence was a pioneer in the business of supplying magical and occult goods by mail order, and his distribution of public domain books, such as Secrets of the Psalms by Godfrey Selig and Pow Wows or the Long-Lost Friend by John George Hohman had a great and lasting effect on the African American urban hoodoo community in the southern United States as well as on the development of Obeah in Jamaica.