1668 WITCHCRAFT J. GLANVILL OCCULT DEVIL SATAN MAGIC GHOST DEMON BIBLE SORCERY $

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A BLOW AT MODERN SADDUCISM
1668; Joseph Glanvill;
4th Edition
; London, E. Cotes for James Collins;
Custom Made Case;
Full Leather
; 24/183/10 Pages +1 of Ads; w4.5"x6.8h";
Very
Rare!
ATTRIBUTES:
Comes with a lovely custom made trifold case with facsimile title page pasted on, two faux ivory ties, housing a beautiful full leather cover design with blind stamped center borders/corner flowers, gold gilded cover edges, red page edges, separate title pages to each selection, and a Fascinating Read!
Most of the copies of the original 1666 edition, entitled
Philosophical considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft
, perished in the great fire of London, and subsequent editions were issued under different titles and with additional material (Lowndes, 899).
SUMMARY:
(MAIN TITLE PAGE) A BLOW AT MODERN SADDUCISM IN SOME PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE RELATION OF THE FAM'D DISTURBANCE BY THE DRUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF MR. JOHN MOMPESSON; WITH SOME REFLECTIONS ON DROLLERY AND ATHEISME.
A PHILOSOPHICAL ENDAVOUR IN THE DEFENCE OF THE BEING OF WITCHES AND APPARITIONS: WITH SOME THINGS CONCERNING THE FAMOUS GREATREK'S WRITTEN IN A LETTER TO THE MUCH HONOURED ROBERT HUNT, ESQ.
PALPABLE EVIDENCE OF SPIRITS AND WITCHCRAFT: IN AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAM'D DISTURBANCE BY THE DRUMMER, IN THE MOUSE OF M. MMPESSON. WITH ANOTHER MODERN AND CERTAIN RELATION, IN TWO LETTERS, ONE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM LORD BRERETON; THE OTHER, TO THE LEARNED DR. HENRY MORE.
A WHIP FOR THE DROLL, FIDLER TO THE ATHEIST: BEING REFLECTIONS ON DROLLERY & ATHEISM. SENT, UPON THE OCCASION OF THE DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH, IN A LETTER TO THE MOST LEARNED DR. HEN. MORE.
Joseph Glanvill
(1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English
natural philosophers
of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted "To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence."
He is known also for
Saducismus Triumphatus
(1681), this enlargement of his
Blow at Modern Sadducism
(
1668) was published after Glanvill's death by Henry More. The work decried scepticism about the existence and supernatural power of
witchcraft
and contained a collection of seventeenth-century folklore about witches, including one of the earliest descriptions of a
witch bottle
.
Henry More
(12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the
Cambridge Platonist school
.
This was a
poltergeist
that haunted the house of
John Mompesson, of Tedworth,
Wilts, beginning in 1661, and continuing. In March of that year Mompesson had caused a vagrant drummer be brought before the justice of peace, whereby his drum was confiscated. The instrument was taken to Mompesson’s house during the latter’s absence, which was immediately followed by a poltergeist disturbance.
Members of the household saw apparitions; invisible hands flung about small objects, the young children were levitated as they lay in their beds, and continual drumming was heard every night. When the drummer, who was thought to be the cause of the trouble, was transported away, the disturbance in the household ceased; but when he managed to return after a long period of time, the disturbance began again with renewed vigor.
CONDITION:
Condition is Good/Good+. Some wear to edges, blemish to upper front board, missing spine label, case is excellent; old book pages pasted onto inner boards in replace of blank paper, John Bryan signature to title, few other written words/scribbles/worn title, blemish to bottom margin of two pages,
few other minor blemishes/couple on last few pages, ad pages at the end was trimmed and laid down onto paper/worn, a few manuscript handwritten notes to margins/underlines, for age most pages are very good, hinges/text block are very good!
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