Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
[BROMHALL, THOMAS, compiler.] A Treatise of Specters. Or, An History of Apparitions, Oracles. Prophecies, and Predictions, With Dreames, Visions, and Revelations. And the Cunning Delusions of the Devill. [2], 367, [20] (of [25]) pages; lacks last 2 index leaves. Folio, old 1/2 morocco gilt, cover edges worn; contents browned, scattered stains, occasional marginal worming not affecting text, title unevenly torn in outer margin with loss to rule border and mounted. London: John Streater, 1659

Additional Details

Scarce collection of nearly a thousand anecdotes of demonic and fantastic apparitions and occurrences first published the year before. ESTC R477050 locates only the Worcester College copy at Oxford; OCLC locates a copy at the University of Newcastle; this edition not in Wing.