Collection: L. W. de Laurence

Explore books associated with L. W. de Laurence, the influential and controversial Chicago occult author, publisher, and mail-order bookseller whose catalog circulated works on hypnotism, crystal gazing, spiritualism, magic, divination, and practical occult instruction.

De Laurence’s publications occupy a distinctive place in the commercial history of modern occultism, combining original writing, compilation, republication, and elaborate claims of esoteric authority. The works are preserved here as artifacts of occult publishing and cultural history.

This collection includes rare original and archival editions selected for collectors and researchers of twentieth-century esotericism.

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Read The Occult Empire: L. W. de Laurence and the Commercialization of Esoteric Knowledge for the publishing history behind the collection. For a related current of practical mental and occult instruction, explore William Walker Atkinson and his collected works.

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