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In 3 books; drawn from the capital trials of 900 persons, more or less, who within the last fifteen years have in Lorraine paid the penalty of death for the crime of witchcraft

Fragments and partially complete, green-tinted, rounded bottom glass bottles. One basal fragment is approximately 5.5 centimeters wide from one side of the bottle to the other. The glass is approximately 1 cm thick. No markings are visible.

This edition is packaged in a small brown box. Inside cover contains purchase information: “Excellent Copy with the Half-Title: 139 Goldsmith, Oliver. Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe. Large Title Vignette. 8vo, cont.…

When Doris was in England, a man named Dr. Sturges took great interest in helping orphaned and displaced children from the war. He gave Doris books, fueling her love for reading. On one occasion in 1943, she was gifted "Sir Percy Lead the Band" by…

When Doris left the children's home in Cornwall and returned to living with her parents, she occupied her time toward the end of the war with ephemera journals, which documented the advancement of the Allied troops with newspaper clippings. Displayed…

Austria, 1930s

For Christmas in 1943, Dr. Sturges gifted an early edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), which he inscribed to Doris.

The Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victims de Guerre (The National Office for Veterans and Victims of War) sent a "certificate of disappearance" concerning Monique's mother, Valentine. The certificate did not recognize that she died at…