{"product_id":"pandaemonium-bovet-ltd-ed-1951-magick-spirits-satan-devil-demons-grimoire-1","title":"PANDAEMONIUM - Bovet, Ltd Ed 1951 - MAGICK SPIRITS SATAN DEVIL DEMONS GRIMOIRE","description":"\u003cdiv\u003ePANDAEMONIUM, OR THE DEVIL'S CLOYSTER\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBook Details + Condition: The Hand and Flower Press (Kent, UK). First Edition thus, 1951. Hardcover. Limited edition of 1000, printed on pure rag paper (books were not individually numbered). Very scarce edition. By Richard Bovet (1641 - Early 1700s). Introduction and Notes by Montague Summers. Large octavo. Xxviii + 192 pages. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, with a multi-colored title design on front. Includes frontis and facsimile title page. Provenance: From the massive occult collection of Dr. Alan Gauld (1932–2024), distinguished British psychologist, parapsychologist, and historian of psychical research based at the University of Nottingham. His library included significant works on mediumship, hypnotism, and the founders of psychical research, often marked with his ownership inscriptions or ex libris labels. He authored many respected works, including The Founders of Psychical Research (1968), Mediumship and Survival (1982), and A History of Hypnotism (1992).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFirst published in 1684 with the subtitle \"Being a Further Blow to Modern Sadduceism, Proving the Existence of Witches and Spirits in a Discourse Deduced from the Fall of the Angels, the Propagation of Satan's Kingdom Before the Flood: The Idolatry of the Ages after, Greatly Advancing Diabolical Confederacies. With an Account of the Lives and Transactions of Several Notorious Witches. Also; A Collection of Several Authentick Relations of Strange Apparitions of Dæmons and Spectres, and Fascinations of Witches, Never Before Printed.\" Bovet argues for the reality of witchcraft theologically, through citing a number of supposed examples. As with witchcraft, which he saw as evidence of the Devil's work, he likewise attacks the Papacy. Montague Summers wrote the Introduction, but died at the time of the book’s printing.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA scarce copy in very good condition, with firm binding; minor shelf wear to boards; Gauld's ex libris sticker to inside front board, with inked name to ffep; interior is clean and free of markings, save Gauld's tidy penciled notes to rear free endpapers. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Black Cat Caboodle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57967641198895,"sku":"157913123668","price":235.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2803\/6230\/files\/57_7651a0c9-7899-4a6a-8157-0e6b49888231.png?v=1779383242","url":"https:\/\/blackcatcaboodle.com\/products\/pandaemonium-bovet-ltd-ed-1951-magick-spirits-satan-devil-demons-grimoire-1","provider":"Black Cat Caboodle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}