Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HUTCHINSON, FRANCIS. An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft. xv, [5], 270, [2] pages, including half-title and final ad leaf. 8vo, 193x117 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of worn original backstrip, hinges reinforced; contents clean apart from a few fingerprints and small stain in blank outer margin of a few leaves toward the end. Later 19th-century booklabel of Rev. J. H. Hext, Kings-Teignton, Vicarage, Newton Abbot. London: R. Knaplock, 1718

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first edition. "Especially valuable for its personal records of survivors . . . the Historical Essay was, in fact, a collection of famous trials interpreted from a pronounced skeptical point of view" (Robbins). Chapter 5 concerns witchcraft in New England. Alden 718/89; Robbins, pages 253-54.