RARE JOSEPH GLANVIL'S "SADDUCISMUS TRIUMPHATUS" 1726
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Sadducismus Triumphatus: Or, A Full and Plain Evidence, Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts: The First Treating Their Possibility. The Second Their Real Existence. by Joseph Glanvil, Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II, and F.R.S. (title continues) The Advantages wof, the Reader may understand out of Dr H More’s Account prefixed unto. Also, Two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish Witches. Done into English by Dr Horneck. With Some Account of Mr Glanvil’s Life and Writings. Published by: A Bettesworth et al, London, 1726. Fourth edition, with additions. Full leather binding with beautiful and ornate gilt decoration to spine, front and rear boards. Joseph Glanvil's (1636-1680) "Sadducismus Triumphatus" was first published in 1681. Glanvil's book was directly addressing witchcraft in England. Part one includes the "Philosophical considerations" which are presented in the form of a letter to Robert Hunt Esq., a Justice of the Peace who had shown Glanvil his "book of examinations of witches." Part II consists of 26 relations (accounts of witchcraft & apparitions) which the author considered most reliable. According to George Lyman Kittredge (a scholar of English literature) Glanvil's book "was thought to have put the belief in apparitions and witchcraft on an unshakable basis of science and philosophy.
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