Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GLANVILL, JOSEPH. Saducismus triumphatus; or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions . . . Third [sic] Edition with Additions. [10], 31, [13], 53, [3], 48, [6], 53, [13], 175, [3], 39, [3], 39, [13], 16 pages, including engraved additional title and frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, top of spine chipped; occasional toning and soiling. London: A. L. for Roger Tuckyr, 1700

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Glanvill sought to provide a scientific and philosophical basis for belief in witches. Robbins, pages 223-24 ("he may be regarded as the father of modern psychical research"); Thorndike VIII, 567-68; Wing G826.