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Lot 00192 |

Vett Carl: Seltsame Erlebnisse in einem Derwischkloster, Leipzig -Strasburg-Zurich 1931 First edition, in 8vo 19x14cm, publisher s papercovers faded, complete [4]331p. and one folding plate, text clean and bright, overall in very good condition.Carl Vett (1871-1956),a Swiss traveler and founder of the international parapsychology,toured in Anatolia in the early 1920s..He stayed for some months in a Dervish monastery (Teke) and kept a daily calendar.After the strict close down and dispersion of all Dervish affiliations in Turkey, his testimony became precious, as a unique European register of a long tradition in Anatolia of blended Christian and Muslim traditions which went back to the early phase of conquest of the Byzantine Asia Minor. One of the very last travel accounts for the Ottoman Levant




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