AN ESSAY ON DEMONOLOGY, GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSION AT SALEM, IN 1692.
Book Details + Condition: Carter and Hendee (Boston). First Edition, 1831. Leather hardcover. 234 pages. Measures 6.25" x 4". Very early work on the occult and human reaction to the occult, from the early part of the 19th century. Topics include: Ghosts and Apparitions; Salem Witchcraft; Witchcraft and Sorcery; Omens and Auguries; Illusions; Imagination and Fear; Medical Quackery; and more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding (despite cracking to spine hinge); normal wear to original leather boards; interior is clean and free of markings save normal age-toning to pages (more so on title page and front endpapers).
