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DEMONOLOGY AND WITCH-HUNTING IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic.

Edited by GOODARE, Julian, VOLTMER, Rita and WILLUMSEN, Liv Helene. · 2020

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,753)

London: Routledge, 2020. 8vo., pp.xvi,402, paperback, b/w illustrations; rubbed to extremities, slight curling to wrappers, crease to top right corner of front wrapper, else a vg copy.

MAKING MURDER PUBLIC Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680.

KESSELRING, K.J. · 2019

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 8vo., pp.ix,185, navy hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, some light creasing to extremities.

BRITISH AIR POLICY BETWEEN THE WARS 1918-1939

HYDE, H. Montgomery. · 1976

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London: Heinemann, 1976. 8vo., pp.xx,539, navy hardcover, gilt; light yellowing to pages, a few marks to edges of text block, spots of light rubbing to corners of boards, a light surface scratch to front board, else very good indeed in a good unclipped dust-jacket, lightly r...

THE FORMATION OF A PERSECUTING SOCIETY Power and Deviance in Western Europe 950-1250

MOORE, R. I. · 1987

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987 8vo., hardcover, pp.168; a couple of spots of foxing to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean, very slight rubbing to head and tail band, a very good copy in good+ unclipped dust-jacket rubbed to extremities, two small tears to headban...

NICHOLAS CULPEPER: English Physician and Astrologer.

THULESIUS, Olav. · 1992

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Basingtoke: Macmillan, 1992. 8vo.,pp.xi,210, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light toning to endpapers, ownership signature to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy, in a vg unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

ART AND MAGIC IN THE COURT OF THE STUARTS.

HART, Vaughan. · 1994

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: Routledge, 1994. 8vo., pp.,xiv,266, black hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; ink inscription to title page, head very lightly scuffed, o/w a near-fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly worn at edges and lightly scuffed to back.

ENGLAND'S FIRST DEMONOLOGIST Reginald Scot & ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’

ALMOND, Philip C. · 2011

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. First editon. 8vo., pp.ix,246, black hardcover, silver lettering; ex libris James Sharpe, ownership signature to front free endpaper, a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

WIVES, WIDOWS, WITCHES & BITCHES Women in 17th Century Devon

THOMPSON, Janet A. · 1993

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

New York: Peter Lang, 1993. Author’s presentation copy. 8vo., pp.xviii,260, pictorial hardcover; ex libris James Sharpe, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, lightly rubbed to extremities, very good indeed.

THE APPEARANCE OF WITCHRAFT Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe

ZIKA, Charles. · 2007

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.xiv,296, pictorial hardcover, b/w plates; a couple of very small marks to fore-edge of text block, corners lightly bumped, else very good indeed.

SORCIERES JUSTICE ET SOCIETE AUX 16 ET 17 SIECLES.

MUCHEMBLED, Robert. · 1987

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris: Editions Imago, 1987. Author’s presentation copy, map, b/w illustrations, paperback in French; head, fore-edge and tail scuffed, spotting to spine, back cover creased, spotting to front endpaper, o/w a very good copy.

POSSESSION, PURITANISM AND PRINT. Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy.

GIBSON, Marion. · 2006

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006. 8vo., pp.vi,218, hardcover, purple spine, black lettering, no dust-jacket; ink inscription to front free endpaper, o/w a near fine copy.

WITCHCRAFT, THE DEVIL, AND EMOTIONS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND.

MILLAR, Charlotte-Rose. · 2017

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Oxon: Routledge, 2017. 8vo., pp.,xii,230, hardback, black spine, white lettering, b/w illustrations; a very good copy with only a few scratches to front and back cover, a small bump near lower spine and a very small spot to head.

POETIC REMARKS IN THE HUMAN WORLD.

HUA, Jen Chien Tz’u. · 1972

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Published and printed in Hong Kong, 1972. 8vo., pp.iii,60, paperback; light foxing to edges, rust marks from staples, a very good copy of this scarce volume.

A TALE OF A TUB. With Other Early Works, 1696-1707.

SWIFT, Jonathan, edited by Herbert Davis. · 1965

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. Reprint (third impression in this edition: first published 1939), 8vo., pp.xxxvii,311, green cloth, gilt, top edges green, b/w frontispiece and 9 further b/w plates, facsimiles of title pages; a couple of early leaves fused at margins (pp.xxxvi...

A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE UPON HUMILITY Wherein is shewn, The Nature, Reasonableness, and Usefulness thereof. Together with the Ways of Expressing and Increasing it.

PELLING, Edward, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to their Majesties, and Rector of Petworth in Sussex. · 1694

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London: William Crooke, 1694. 8vo., pp.(i),(v),198,(x) publisher’s advertisements, full calf with blindstamped borders, rebacked in modern leather with modern gilt-lettered title, preserving front endpapers with linen tape reinforcement to inner hinge and rebacking to ...

THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS.

RUSSELL, Bertrand. · 1937

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xxxix,534, blue cloth, gilt; partial toning to endpapers, very slight sunning to spine, light creasing to head- and tailbands, a very good, fresh copy. No dust-jacket.

THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS.

DARWIN, Charles. · 1876

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: John Murray, 1876. Second thousand, 8vo., pp.viii,208, half leather, five raised bands, gilt, green title label, gilt decorations to compartments, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, 13 engraved in-text figures; foxing to prelims, some wear to extremities, most part...

THE GOLD BUG AND OTHER TALES.

POE, Edgar Allan. Illustrated by McCORMICK, A.D. · 1898

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London: Downey and Co. Limited, c.1898. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.316, uncut, last few gathers unopened, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine in gilt, b/w frontispiece, seven further b/w plates; prelims and edges foxed, with just occasional light foxing or to marg...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.

MILTON, John. With illustrations after Henry Fuseli, Richard Westall and John Martin. · 1846

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: J.J. Chidley, 1846. New edition, 8vo., pp.vii,527, full claret morocco with ruled compartments, decorative gilt compartments and boards, a.e.g., frontispiece portrait of Milton engraved by J. Cochran after a portrait by Sam Cooper, six further plates engraved by J. R...

SOME FARRER MEMORIALS 1610-1923. Being a Selection from the Papers of Thomas Henry, First Lord Farrer 1819-1899, On Various Matters Connected With His Life; Together With Notes Relating to Some Branches of the Family of Grey-Stoneley, Ingleborough, Abinger, Between 1610 and 1923, Made By His Son, Thomas Cecil, Second Lord Farrer.

1923

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London: George Sherwood, 1923. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),246, brown cloth, gilt, 28 b/w plates + map; ownership gift inscription (’...from Philip Farrer, July 1965’) to front free endpaper, sellotape mark to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to edges, else a v...