LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT, Addressed to J.G. Lockhart, Esq.
John Murray: London, 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #23-1436
Frontis, 6 x 4", 1/4 light green leather, raised bands, spine blindstamped with gilt dec and lettering, red spine label, marbled boards and page edges, ix, 402. Covers rubbed, edgeworn, spine sunned, corners bumped, armorial bookplate (T.B.M. Baskerville), occasional foxing else very good condition. Textblock very tight. The letters were written to his son-in-law J.G. (John Gibson) Lockhart to whom he was quite close. Some of the topics: lycanthrop; fairies who are addicted to carry off human beings; those who deal in fortune-telling, mystical cures by charms; witch trials in New England; astrology. The book traces mankind's changing beliefs in the supernatural ecamining witch superstitions, demonology, fairies, ghosts, creed of Zoroaster, somnambulism and much more. "The apparent Evidence of Intercourse with the Supernatural World is sometimes owing to a depraved State of the bodily Organs". Fascinating. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE.
Price: $750.00