New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1969. The thin Dust Jacket shows some rubbing, extremity wear, but no missing pieces, and nicer than usually found. The book itself gently read, if at all.
Gold Gilt stamping on Cloth Spine very bright. Sewn Binding tight, with some light extremity wear, touch of edge age. Keeping this from Fine is some chaffing to pastedowns edge extremities, light loss. Internally clean, and very bright. First Edition, Later Printing. Hard Cover, Cloth Spine, Sewn.
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Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959. Black treated covers on boards. Owners stamped name and address on fep. Volume has light wear, some vague soil on page edges.
Jacket is slightly worn on edges, a chip on the bottom of the rear panel and at the head of the spine. Now in clear cover. 'An historical and human compendium, from original sources in the world's great libraries, describing the witches' sabbat and pact, incubi and succubi, eyewitness reports of trials, werewolves, and vampires, sexual relations with the devil, demoniacal possession and exorcism, poltergeists, barbarous tortures, and the theological and legal theories of inquisition, witchcraft, and demonology.' Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Very Good/Good. By Hundreds of B/W illustrations, many reproduced for the first time in centuries. New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1965.
Brown cloth, no dust-jacket. 571pp., 250 illustrations accompanying the text.
Fourth printing. A comprehensive reference work arranged alphabetically to include 'articles about witches' sabbet and pact, night flight and metamorphosis, incubi and succubi, verbatim reports of trials, werewolves and vampires, devils, demonical possession and exorcism, poltergeists, the classical demonologists, the Inquisition, how and why witches were accused, barbarous tortures, and accounts of the major witches' trials of Europe and New England.'
No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket flaps neatly cut and affixed to inside covers. Cloth on front board and spine faded and sunned. A clean, square, interanlly unmarked copy. Near very good. Fourth Printing. Near Very Good/No Jacket.
4to - over 9¾' - 12' tall.
Detail - With research sourced by the world's greatest libraries, Robbins has compiled a rational, balanced history of 300 years of horror concentrated primarily in Western Europe. Spanning from the 15th century through the 18th century, the witch-hunt frenzy marks a period of suppressed rational thought; never before have so many been so wrong.
To better understand this phenomenon, Robbins examines how the meaning of 'witch' has evolved and exposes the true nature of witchcraft-a topic widely discussed in popular culture, though remarkably misunderstood. First published in 1959, Robbins' encyclopedia remains the most authoritative and comprehensive body of information about witchcraft and demonology ever compiled in a single volume. Lavishly acclaimed in academic and popular reviews, this full-scale compendium of fact, history, and legend covers about every phase of this fascinating subject from its origins in the medieval times to its last eruptions in the 18th century. Accompanying the text are 250 illustrations from rare books, contemporary prints, and old manuscripts, many of which have been published here for the first time.
Rossell Hope Robbins (1912-1990), an acknowledged authority on witchcraft, was one of the half-dozen Americans ever elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He authored over a dozen books and nearly 200 articles, including the definitive introduction to the catalogue of the Witchcraft Collection at Cornell University Library in 1979.
He was a Commonwealth Fellow, Canada Council Professor, and he received grants from the Modern Language Association of America and from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also served as Chairman of the Middle English Division of the MLA, President of the Medieval Club of New York, research associate at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Robbins has lectured extensively on medieval topics and witchcraft at universities throughout the world. Detail - Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery.
The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings or as individual volumes:. Prehistory and Historical Ethnography Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00.
Greek Civilization Set of 7: 0-415-15612-2: £450.00. Roman Civilization Set of 6: 0-415-15613-0: £400.00. Eastern Civilizations Set of 10: 0-415-15614-9: £650.00. Judaeo-Christian Civilization Set of 4: 0-415-15615-7: £250.00. European Civilization Set of 11: 0-415-15616-5: £700.00. Detail - Written by King James I and published in 1597, the original edition of Demonology is widely regarded as one of the most interesting and controversial religious writings in history, yet because it is written in the language of its day, it has been notoriously difficult to understand.
Now occult scholar Donald Tyson has modernized and annotated the original text, making this historically important work accessible to contemporary readers. Also deciphered here, for the first time, is the anonymous tract News from Scotland, an account of the North Berwick witch trials over which King James presided. Tyson examines King James’ obsession with witches and their alleged attempts on his life, and offers a knowledgeable and sympathetic look at the details of magick and witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Demonology features historical woodcut illustrations and includes the original old English texts in their entirety. This reference work is the key to an essential source text on seventeenth-century witchcraft and the Scottish witch trials.