Marshall Rare Books
Witchcraft & Demonology
Witch trials and the occult
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.
Philosophia nova astronomiae nostrae particula insignis
A rare astronomical and cosmological work by Paul Nagel (Nagelius).
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…
Manuale Exorcismorum
A popular and practical manual of exorcism
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]
Hidden gem
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.
Hidden gem
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.
Hidden gem
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
Origine des Cartes a Jouer, Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes
A Rare Large Paper Copy
Daimonologia: or, a treatise of spirits. Wherein several places of Scripture are expounded, … By Comte du Lude
One of the last works in english devoted to disproving witchcraft
Die bezauberte Welt: Oder eine grundliche Untersuchung des allgemeinen Aberglaubens. Aus dem Hollandischen (ubers. von J. Lange)
The most important work of the time combating belief in ghosts, witchcraft, and sorcery
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An Astrologicall Judgement upon His Majesties Present March [with Postscript by William Lilly]
This scarce prophetic pamphlet is the most defining work produced by Royalist astrologer, Sir George Wharton.
Complementum Artis Exorcisticae cui simile nunquam visum est…In Tres Partes divisum
A guidebook for exorcists