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[GLANVILL, JOSEPH.] A Blow at Modern Sadducism in some Philosophical Considerations about Witchcraft. [16], 160 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked; margins trimmed entering some headlines and catchwords, marginal dampstaining through most of volume; cloth slipcase. Kenneth Garth Huston bookplate. London: E. C. for James Collins, 1668
Third edition of Glanvill's 1666 Philosophical Endeavour in the Defence of the Being of Witches and Apparitions; issue with errata on A8v. Glanvill sought a scientific and philosophical basis for belief in witches; "he may be regarded as the father of modern psychical research"--Robbins, pages 223-24. Thorndike VIII, 567-68; Wing G799.
