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- Collection: The Supernatural in the Archives: Books on Ghosts, Witchcraft, & Beasts
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The Resurrectionist: the lost work of Dr. Spencer Black
A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an…
The Bestiary: a book of beasts, with more than one hundred and twenty-five marvelous illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and index.
An Account of the Trial, Confession & Condemnation of Six Witches, at Maidstone, in the county of Kent, at the assizes held there July 1652, before Sir Peter Warburton, one of the justices of the common pleas to which is added the trial, examination and execution of three witches executed at Faversham, in the same county, September 1645.
Two hundred copies reprinted verbatim from the original editions.
Includes reprints of original title-pages, "A prodigious & tragicall history of the arraignment, tryall, confession, and condemnation of six witches at Maidstone, in Kent ... London.…
Includes reprints of original title-pages, "A prodigious & tragicall history of the arraignment, tryall, confession, and condemnation of six witches at Maidstone, in Kent ... London.…
A Medieval Bestiary
Translation based on the standard Middle English text, The Bestiary: B. M. Arundel 292, in Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250, edited by J. Hall, 1920. Includes bibliography.
Malleus Maleficarum
"This edition of Malleus maleficarum, comprising 1275 numbered copies, is here translated into English from the edition of 1489 for the first time ... This copy is no. 1088.
"A note upon the bibliography of the Malleus maleficarum": p. xli-xlii.
"A note upon the bibliography of the Malleus maleficarum": p. xli-xlii.
La Danse des Morts
Two added t.p.: p. [2], The dance of death; engraved from the fresco-paintings on the cemetery wall of St. John's church at Basle; p. [3], Todtentanz der Stadt Basel.
42 designs and a death's head (a portrait when reversed) engraved after the…
42 designs and a death's head (a portrait when reversed) engraved after the…
Hours With the Ghosts: or, Nineteenth century witchcraft
Illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy