Mercury Publishing Company

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The Mercury Publishing Company, also called Mercury Print, was a publishing house that operated in San Francisco. It published the early Theosophical periodical Mercury, of which William John Walters was the editor.

These are some of the titles produced:

  • Besant, Annie. Proofs of the Existence of the Soul: a Lecture. San Francisco: Mercury Print, year unknown. Pamphlet in "Mercury Series 2."
  • Leadbeater, C. W. The Fourth Dimension: A Lecture. San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1900.
  • Marques, A. The Human Aura . San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1896. A copy of this is in the Boris de Zirkoff Papers, Records Series 25, Theosophical Society in America Archives.
  • Marques, A. Scientific Corroborations of Theosophy. San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1908. Dr. Auguste Marques, of the Aloha T.S., wrote a study of the scientific validity of Theosophy, billed as "A vindication of the secret doctrine by the latest discoveries" in one edition. A copy of this in Boris de Zirkoff's Papers, Records Series 25, Theosophical Society in America Archives. That one is the fourth edition in 1897 of a lecture by "A. Marques, D. Sc., President Aloha Branch T.S." and was "Revised, Amplified, and Printed by request of the Chicago Theosophists for White Lotus Day with an introduction by Mrs.Annie Besant." The subheading is "or H.P.B.'s Secret Doctrine Vindicated by the Progress of Science."
  • Wachtmeister, Constance, and Kate Buffington David, editors. Practical Vegetarian Cookery. San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1897.
  • Wachtmeister, Constance. Spiritualism in the Light of Theosophy. San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1897.

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