NARRATIVES OF THE WITCHCRAFT CASES (1648 - 1706) - ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
Book Details + Condition: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York). First Edition, 1914. Hardcover. 442 pages with Index. Illustrated. 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.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; chafed spine ends; darkening to spine; interior is clean and free of markings.
