NARRATIVES OF THE WITCHCRAFT CASES (1648 - 1706) - ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
Book Details + Condition: Barnes and Noble, Inc. (New York). Early Edition, 1966. Hardcover with blue boards, gilt design to front and gilt titling to spine. 442 pages with Index. Gathered by distinguished historian George Lincoln Burr, this work includes 13 original narratives by judges, ministers, government officials, and others involved in the witchcraft trials and persecution of the accused, with many firsthand reports from the men and women charged. Burr also provides accounts of the evidence that was used against them, tests for witchcraft, executions, and much more. Selections by Increase Mather, Cotton Mather ("Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions," 1689), Richard Chamberlain ("Lithobolia, or the Stone-Throwing Devil," 1698), Deodat Lawson ("A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village," 1692), Thomas Brattle, Sir William Phips, Robert Calef, John Hale ("A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft," 1702), and many others.
Firm binding; light wear to boards, with some discoloration to rear; chafed spine ends; fading to spine; old tape marks to endpapers (with rubbed area to rear free endpaper, perhaps remnants of paste-in); a few old dog-eared page corners; faint library stamp to text block; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed and shipped in boxes.
