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1962ref. 84021London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xi; 162pp. Light bumping and edgewear to extremities otherwise sharp and strong with a slight bow to the boards; internally clean; in a strong solid dustjacket with some unsightly spotting and staining and a little marginal fraying and wear. A very good copy. Lethbridge's investigation into the history and traditions of modern witchcraft if such a thing exists benefits from an amount of contribution from actual contemporary witches which is certainly an improvement on the general 'research' of the 60's and 70's which was much more interested in the 'dancing naked in the moonlight' aspects of magic and less in the 'as above so below' theoreticals. This is what happens when rare bookdealers sell books to Jimmie Page. Lethbridge makes a credible attempt at a historical outline and includes some folkloric sources that are generally overlooked in favor of the nearest pointy hat. Not terribly uncommon but sought after. Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown books
2010ref. 565632010. ISBN-13: 9781616190576; ISBN-10: 1616190574. Trials. Witchcraft. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Originally published: Toronto: The Carswell Co. Limited 1916. vii 234 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190576; ISBN-10: 1616190574. Paperback. New. $21.95 Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife" and "The servant and his two masters" a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale 1664 taken down by an attendant at the proceedings and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692. unknown books
2010ref. 284972010. ISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Curious Cases Trials. Witchcraft. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Originally published: Toronto: The Carswell Co. Limited 1916. vii 234 pp. Reprinted 2000 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Hardcover. New. $39.95 Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife" and "The servant and his two masters" a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale 1664 taken down by an attendant at the proceedings and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692. unknown books
1600ref. ST21089England: Printed by the English secret press 1600. FIRST EDITION. 187 x 128 mm. 7 3/8 x 5". 4 p.l. 24 106 2 pp. Very pleasing early 20th century grained calf gilt covers with French fillet border and rosette cornerpieces raised bands spine panels with small daisy centerpiece gilt lettering densely gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. STC 6288; ESTC S109297. See also Freeman "Demons Deviance and Defiance: John Darrell and the Politics of Exorcism in Late Elizabethan England" in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church c. 1560-1660 ed. P. Lake and M. Questier Boydell Press 2000 pp. 34-63. Short faint scratch to front board extremities lightly rubbed text washed and pressed title and final two leaves somewhat grayed and grubby margins trimmed a bit close occasionally grazing headlines or shoulder notes but a perfectly readable copy in an attractive binding. This scarce clandestine imprint is a central publication in of one of the strangest religio-political controversies of the turn of the 17th century involving demonic possession witchcraft accusations and an anti-Puritan crusade by a Church of England bishop. Our author Puritan exorcist John Darrell ca. 1562 - ca. 1607 was educated at Cambridge and briefly dabbled in law and farming before establishing himself as a preacher and spiritual healer. In 1586 he began conducting exorcisms resulting in a level of local fame partly because some of them resulted in the convictions of witches. In the following decade he achieved national notoriety. First in March of 1597 he exorcised a group of seven demoniacs in the household of Lancashire landowner Nicholas Starkey. Then in November of the same year he conducted a dramatic public exorcism of Nottingham apprentice musician William Somers whose claim of having been magically possessed led to the arrest of 13 people on witchcraft charges. One of these individuals was the sister of a city alderman who immediately took action to protect his kinswoman. The resulting legal tangle--which included the arrest of Somers on charges of witchcraft later changed to fraud and an investigative commission led by the Archbishop of York--attracted widespread attention to Darrell's activities by both supporters and detractors. The Church of England was highly concerned about Puritan exorcisms: in the words of historian Thomas S. Freeman "exorcism magnified those aspects of Puritan worship which the ecclesiastical authorities most feared--its anti-hierarchical tendencies its strong sense of communal solidarity and its potential as a vehicle for protest." No doubt with an understanding of this threat Bishop of London Richard Bancroft and his chaplain Samuel Harsnett led a vicious campaign against Darrell publishing multiple works smearing his character and theology stripping Durrell of his license to preach and imprisoning him for more than a year. Darrell did not go quietly. Over the next four years he and his supporters penned multiple defenses of his actions and of Puritan exorcism more generally published either abroad or illegally by secret English presses. The present work is significant not only for its detailed retelling of Darrell's final two exorcisms in his own words but also because it includes Darrell's detailed "doctrine of possession" which discusses the difference between his exorcisms and those of the apostolic age an important theological clarification in the debate. STC indicates that our book was one of the works published clandestinely in England; this is backed up by the October 29 1600 Stationers' Company order to burn all copies of "mr Darrell's book lately printed concerning the casting out of Devilles" which Freeman asserts refers to the present publication. This order to be burned on top of the clandestine publication could explain the present scarcity of the work which appears on the market very infrequently. We have been able to trace just a single copy at auction this century and only five since 1964 several lacking the final errata leaf which does appear here. Printed [by the English secret press?] unknown books
1994ref. 21242NY: Harpercollins Pandora. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 006250049X . Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Harpercollins (Pandora) hardcover books
1751ref. 7928CBAugsburg, Matthäus Rieger, 1751. 8°. (17) Bl. (davon 1 leeres Bl.), 462 S.; (8) Bl., 240 S. Lederband der Zeit. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + 2 in 1 Band. Französisch beschrieben , und in dieser Sprach zum
1938ref. EAzz1872ABln., Bock o. J. (ca. 1938). 734 S. u. einige Abb., ill. OLn.
ref. OKKU1633o.J. alle Bände mit Gebrauchsspuren u. tlw. gebr. Text. Hohlbein, W. Das Druidentor. Roman. (Wien, Buchgemeinschaft Donauland 1993). 544 S., OPp. m. OU./Fischer-Taschenbuch: Dülmen, R. v. (Hrsg.). (1987). Hexenwelten. Magie und Imagination vom 16.-20. Jahrhundert. 436 S., 4 Bl. Vlgsanz., OKart./Knaur Taschenbuch: Malanowski, A. u. A.-B. Köhle. Hexenkraft. Macht und Magie der weisen Frauen heute. (1995). 238 S., OKart./ Golowin, S. Die weisen Frauen. Die Hexen und ihr Heilwissen. (Mchn.), Goldmann Taschenbuch (1989). 347 S., OKart.
ref. OKKU1634o.J. Knaur-Taschenbuch: Stewart, R.J. Merlin. Das Leben eines sagenumwobenen Magiers. (1988). 316 S., OKart./Boron, R. de. Merlin der Künder des Grals. Aus dem Altfranzös. übers., von Konrad Sandkühler. (Stgt.)., Freies Geistesleben (1975). 188 S., 1 Bl. Vlgsanz.,
1945ref. 5493CB(Verona), Mondadori, (c. 1945). 4° (32 cm). (6) S. Mit farb. Illustr. von Bruno Munari. Farb. illustr. Pappband mit Leinenrücken. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 5493C
1754ref. 1215BBStuttgart, Johann Benedict Metzler, 1754. 8°. (7) Bl., 474 S., 19 Bl. Mit gest. Frontisp. Pappband der Zeit mit handschr. Rückentitel und verblasstem Buntpapierbezug. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, bild
1963ref. 59BB(Paris), Hachette, (um, 1963). 8°. 10 nn Bl. Farb. illustr. Orig.-HLn. Minim bestossen. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + Les albums roses.
1968ref. 2796CBHanau, Müller & Kiepenheuer, 1968. 8°. (XV) (1) 562 (2) S; (4) 455 (1) S. Beide Bd. mit einigen Abb. Orig.-Leinenband. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + 2 Bde. 3. Aufl.
1960ref. 3080540Paris: Besson et Chantemerle 1960. 303 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].
1910ref. 12276ABFreiburg, Herder, 1910. 20 : 13 cm. 4 leaves, 283 pages Original-half-cloth.
1987ref. 1250585München, Hugendubel, 1987. Gr.-8vo. 128 S. m. zahlr. Abb. (davon 32 farbig). Farbig illustr. OPpbd.
1940ref. 1312902Berlin, Scherl, (etwa 1940). 236 S. m. 49 Abbildungen im Text u. auf Tafeln, 1 Bl. OPpbd m. Deckelillustration (Einbd etwas bertieben u. angestaubt).
1968ref. 1232939Hanau, Müller u. Kiepenheuer, (1968). 16, 562 S., 1 Bl. u. 2 Bl., 455, (1) S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen im Text u. auf Tafeln. OLwdbde m. illustriertem OUmschlag.
1954ref. 1513904München, Heimeran, (1954). 134 S. m. Titelzeichnung u. Vign. von A. Zacharias, 30 Taf. OLwd (Stempel a. Titel).
1978ref. 1185707Tübingen, Tübinger Vereingung für Volkskunde, 1978. 358 S., 1 Bl. (Untersuchungen des Ludwig-Uhland-Instituts 45). OKart.
19838vo., BEST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece, 2 plates and a full-page facsimile in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The substantially revised and corrected edition of a work first published in 1964.
19508vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, 46 plates on 33, and 9 illustrations and full-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. The standard reference and an anthropological classic. The author's long-term association with the Azande peoples of the Sudan resulted in a number of other equally eminent studies. All the plates save one are from photographs by the author. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
1973s.l., Chez l'auteur, 1973; in-8, 51 pp., broché, couverture imprimée. Ouvrage sur la sorcellerie en Lorraine et sa répression.
1981Editions Gallimard, 1981. In-8 broché de 368 pages. Très bon état
1984Arka, 1984. In-8 broché de 109 pages illustrées. Bon état
