Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
GLANVILL, JOSEPH. Saducismus Triumphatus; or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions . . . Second Edition. Folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; full-page illustration at end. [18], 52, [12], 162, [6], 78, [14], 273, [1], 67, [3], 5-45, [17], 24, [1] pages, including final leaf of errata; lacks engraved additional title to the second part. 8vo, 178x113 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked; occasional soiling and marginal stains, fold in portrait reinforced on verso. 19th-century armorial bookplate of H. Jermyn. London: Tho. Newcomb for S. Lowndes, 1682

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Treatise originally published the year before on the reality of witchcraft and supernatural phenomena. Robbins, pages 223-24. Thorndike VIII, 567-68; Wing G823.