Marshall Rare Books
Witchcraft & Demonology
Witch trials and the occult
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De Spectris, Lemuribus et Magnis atque Insolitis fragoribus, variisque praesagitionibus, quae plerunque obitum hominum, magnas clades, mutationes imperiorum praecedunt, Liber unus
An important source for shakespeare's hamlet
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Manuale Exorcismorum
A popular and practical manual of exorcism, first published 1619.
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[PHYSICAL CATALOGUE] Weirdiana: An Exploration of the Mystical, the Spiritual, The Occult and the Out There
In Collaboration with Voewood Rare Books
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Le Livre Magique, Histoire des Événements et des Personnages Surnaturels; contenant des détails sur la démonologie, l’astrologie et la chiromancie; sur les lutins, les fantômes, les spectres…
An incredibly scarce work attributed to the famous French occultist and writer Jacques Collin De Plancy (1793-1887)
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Dictionnaire Infernal, ou Bibliothèque Universelle, sur les êtres, les personnages, les livres, les faits et les choses…
Dictionnaire Infernal is one of the classic works on demonology, describing demons and organising them into hierarchies.
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De La Demonomanie Des Sorciers…,
One of the most emphatic and ruthless works on demonology.
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An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions and Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices.
Early enlightenment first hand account of spirit visitation
Apologie Pour Tous Les Grand Hommes Qui Ont Este Accusez de Magie.
A very fine copy of Naude’s most famous work, which denounces superstition and popular prejudices.
Discours, et histoires des spectres, visions et apparitions des esprits, anges, démons, et âmes, se monstrans visibles aux hommes
Highly influential and important work on ghosts, visions, demons, witches
Daemonologie, in Forme of a Dialogue, Divided in three books.
Written by king james i/vi – the most famous english work on demonology and witchcraft
Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritum de vaticiniis, divinationibus…
Del Palagio de gl’incanti, et delle gran Meraviglie de gli spiriti, et di tutta la Natura, diviso in Libri XXXXV…
Cicogna’s most important work on occultism
Compendio Dell’Arte Essoterica, Et Possbilita delle mirabili, & stupende operationi delli Demoni, & dei Malefici
A rare Venetian edition of one of the most influential 16th-century treatises on demonology and exorcism.
An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact; tending to clear the Texts of the Sacred Scriptures, and confute the vulgar Errors about that Point.
Francis Hutchinson's famously sceptical witchcraft text has long enjoyed an intimate connection with the historiography of the decline of educated…
An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions,
a rational explanation for a broad range of supernatural phenomenons
Dissertazioni sopra le apparizioni de’ spirit e sopra i vampiri, o redivivi d’Ungheria, di Moravia ec…
Scarce First Italian Edition of the Interesting Work on Demonology by French Monk Augustin Calmet.
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Sextus decretalium liber… in concilio Lugdunesi editus [and:] Clementis quinti constitutions in concilio vienensi edite… [and:] Extravagantes viginti Joannis vigesimisecundi…
[papal bull - conjuring, witchcraft]
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La Magie Naturelle Divisée en quatre Liures, Par Jean Baptiste Porta’ Contenant les Secrets & Miracles de Nature, Et nouvellement, L’Introduction à la belle Magie.
A rare Lyon edition of this popular work by the Italian scholar and polymath, Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615).
Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions.
Later edition of this infamous attempt to prove the existence of witches using science.
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Ephemerides.. Ad annos twelfthim, incipientes ab Anno Domini 1589.
Astrology meets astronomy
A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, so farre forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience
A Scarce Pamphlet by prominent English demonologist and Puritan preacher, William Perkins.
Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that Fell Out Within This Island of Britain from 1638 to 1684. Edited from the MS. by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.
This work accounts instances of witchcraft and the supernatural as well as other historical events between 1638 and 1684 in Britain.
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L’ART DE JUGER DE L’ESPIRIT ET DU CARACTERE DES HOMMES DE DES FEMMES
Rare First Edition of this early popular manual on graphology by the printer and bookseller Edouard Hocquart (1789-1870).
Vaticinia seu praedictiones illustrium virorum.
The most famous treatise on papal prophecies and divinations