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- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- History of the Common Law [etc.] [with] An Analysis of the Civil Part of the Law. The Fourth Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall . . . for T. Cadell [etc.], London, 1779.
- Description:
- The best early edition of Hale's classic works, prepared by Charles Runnington who (in Holdsworth's words) "prefixed a life of Hale, and added very extensive notes"; Hale's 'Analysis', though not called for by the title page, is appended
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, a bit embrowned, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-66012
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law, English Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno III & IIII. Edwardi Sexti. Actes made in the Session of this present parlament . . . the iiii daie of Nouembre, in the thirde yere of the reigne of our most dread Souuereigne Lorde Edward the vi [1549] [etc.]. S.T.C. 9430 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Rychard Grafton, London, 1553.
- Description:
- An early printing during a tumultuous year, Parliament enacting the first Riot Act [c.5], establishing a public militia [c.5], abolishing non-Church of England religious books and most images [c.10], and outlawing "phantasicall" prophecies [c.15]
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettered, very light browning, else well preserved with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79223
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, law of slavery, military law, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Ano Reg. Iacobi . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster . . . in the first yeere of the Raigne [with] the third yeere [with] the fourth yeere [with] the seventh year [with] the 21st yeere. S.T.C. 9500; 9502.5; 9505; 9506.5; 9507. Folio
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Barker [imprints vary], London, 1604-24.
- Description:
- A rare collection of the statutory compilations containing all the legislation enacted by Parliament during the reign of James I (save three subsidies), including the foundational acts concerning witchcraft (in 1604) and monopolies (in 1624)
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, centered blind lozenges, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, else quite bright, with the Earl de Grey Wrest Park bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78907
- Price:
- $ 4500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, Intellectual Property, patents, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Primo Edwardi Sexti. Statutes made in the Parlament begon at westminstr the fowerthe daye of Nouember [1547] . . . and from thence continued to the xxiiii daye of Decembre then next ensuyng [etc.]. S.T.C. 9421.6; Beale S220a
- Publisher:
- Excusum . . . in aedibus Richardi Graftoni [i.e. Richard Tottel], London, 1548 [1570?].
- Description:
- The acts of Edward VI's first Parliament, including "[t]he act . . . worthy of a special place in the history of treason", ameliorating Henry VIII's harsh legislation, enacting the two witnesses rule, and abolishing witchcraft as a capital felony
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, minor (pinhole) worming, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79208
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, witchcraft, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Statutes made in the Parliamente . . . in the first yere of . . . Edward VI [with the statutes of 2 and 3 Edw VI, 3 and 4 Edw VI, 5 and 6 Edw VI, and 7 Edw VI]. Five Volumes. S.T.C. 9421, 9423, 9429.7, 9437.5, and 9440.2. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1, 2, and 3] Richard Grafton; [4 and 5] Richard Tottel, London, 1547-70.
- Description:
- A collection of all the legislation of Edward VI's five parliaments, spanning his entire reign from 1547 to 1553, including that abolishing witchcraft, producing the Anglican Church's first prayer book, and increasing protection to accused traitors
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 and 3/4 differently colored calf and morocco, occasional staining and repairs, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78702
- Price:
- $ 5000.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, witchcraft, criminal law, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Tricesimo Tertio Henrici Octavi. Henry the VIII . . . kyng of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland . . . the XXXIII yere [1542] of his moste noble and vytoriouse reygne, wherin were establyshed these actes folowyng. S.T.C. 9405. Folio in 4's
- Publisher:
- Ex officina Thomae Bertheleti typis impress [etc.], London, 1548?.
- Description:
- The Parliament which enacted the first English statute upon witchcraft [c.8], to be repealed in 1547 and re-enacted under Elizabeth (in 1563), as well as the first act [c.20] providing for a second trial (in absentia) of those who have become insane
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn self wraps, disbound, a very good clean copy now preserved in a slightly worn and chipped green folding case
- Book No.:
- W-79470
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, witchcraft, insanity
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXXII. Henrici Octavi [1540] . . . the actes folowing by his highnesse, with thassent of the lordes spiritual and temporal, and the comons assembled in the sayd parliament, haue bene established, ordeyned and enacted. STC 9402 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- T. Powell?, London.
- Description:
- The legislation of the Parliament which included the Statute of Wills, "one of the most significant pieces of all English law", comprehensively restoring the power to devise real property and mitigating the effects of the Statute of Uses of 1536
- Condition:
- 19th century cloth, light browning, else quite well preserved, with the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79317
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Ecclesiastical Law, witchcraft, Wills
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of the Pleas of the Crown . . . A New Edition . . . Together with an Abridgement of the Statutes Concerning Felonies Which Have Been Enacted Since the First Publication . . . by George Wilson [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Payne, P. Uriel, [et al], London, 1778.
- Description:
- First octavo edition of the masterpiece of one of England's greatest judges and scholars of legal history, in Maitland's words "[n]o man of his age was better . . . equipped for the task [and] none had a wider or deeper knowledge of the materials"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, two boards detached, spines varnished, else a sound working set, with the armorial bookplates of James Burrow in both volumes
- Book No.:
- W-78040
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- criminal law, witchcraft, sheriffs, justices of peace, poor law
- Author:
- Hickes, George
- Title:
- The Spirit of Fanaticism: Exemplify'd in the Tryals of Mr. James Mitchel . . . and Major Thomas Weir . . . who was Burnt between Edinburgh and Leith April the 11th, 1670 . . . Written by an Advocate of the Civil Law of Scotland. Straus p.212
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- First Curll edition of the account of the trial of Thomas Weir, "one of Scotland's most famous wizards", strangled and burned for witchcraft, incest with his sister (who was hanged) and stepdaughter, bestiality with mares and cows and adultery
- Condition:
- Early 1/4 black morocco over decorated boards, a portion of the spine lacking, some browning and foxing, a somewhat fragile but usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76221
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, adultery, witchcraft, Gay and Lesbians, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Title:
- The Case of Insufficiency Discuss'd; Being the Proceedings at Large, Touching the Divorce between the Lady Frances Howard, and Robert Earl of Essex, upon a Bill of Complaint exhibited by the Countess against the Earl . . . for Impotency [etc.]. Straus p.217
- Publisher:
- Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible . . . in Fleet-street, London, 1711.
- Description:
- A sensational trial in English history, borrowing from Thomas Aquinas's doctrine that witchcraft could make a man selectively impotent and nullify a marriage, this early Curll printing of it part of his revolutionizing of English obscenity law
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered, a good tall copy, with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-77782
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, obscenity, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno III & IIII. Edwardi Sfxti [sic] [Sexti]. Actes made in the Session of this present Parlament . . . the iiii daye of Nouembre, in the thirde yere of the reigne of our moste dread Soueraigne Lorde Edward the vi [1549] [etc.]. S.T.C. 9431; Beale S229a
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Richard Grafton [i.e. Richard Tottel], London, 1570?.
- Description:
- The second Tottel printing of the statutes of 3-4 Edward VI, a tumultuous year, with the passage of the first Riot Act [c.5], the inception of a public militia [c.5], and the outlawing of "phantasicall" prophecies [c.15]
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light staining, mainly marginal, lacking leaf C2, not affecting the acts mentioned below; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79218
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, law of slavery, military law, witchcraft
- Author:
- Dolan, Frances E.
- Title:
- Dangerous Familiars, Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a bit scratched, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-66532
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- women's law, 17TH CENTURY, witchcraft, criminal law
- Author:
- Fissell, Mary E.
- Title:
- Vernacular Bodies, The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-74886
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, women's law, witchcraft
- Author:
- Boguet, Henry
- Title:
- An Examen of Witches Drawn from various trials of many of this sect in the district of Saint Oyan de Joux commonly known as Saint Claude in the county of Burgundy including the procedure necessary to a judge in trials for witchcraft
- Publisher:
- Frederick Muller, London, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-48126
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, FRANCE, trials
- Author:
- Kieckhefer, Richard
- Title:
- Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1979.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-13064
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, GERMANY, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Title:
- The Enduring Fascination with Salem Witchcraft
- Publisher:
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Volume 110, Part 2 of the Society's Proceedings
- Book No.:
- W-71050
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, colonies
- Author:
- Geis, Gilbert and Ivan Bunn
- Title:
- A Trial of Witches, A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution
- Publisher:
- Routledge, London, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64306
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Rapley, Robert
- Title:
- A Case of Witchcraft, The Trial of Urbain Grandier
- Publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-66657
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, FRANCE, witchcraft
- Author:
- Hoffer, Peter Charles
- Title:
- The Devil's Disciples, Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-65123
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials, 17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies
- Author:
- Levack, Brian P.
- Title:
- Witch-Hunting in Scotland, Law, Politics and Religion
- Publisher:
- Routledge, London, 2008.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original illustrated wraps, one corner somewhat bent and stained, otherwise a good usable copy; 217 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76435
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Levin, David (ed.)
- Title:
- What Happened in Salem? Documents Pertaining to the 17th-Century Witchcraft Trials. Sixth Edition
- Publisher:
- Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, 1950.
- Description:
- Originally part of the materials tried out in the English A course at Harvard, here separately published after that course's supersession; with a preface by Theodore Morrison, who taught the Harvard course
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, definitely worn, some pencilling, sound; 198 pages
- Book No.:
- W-59283
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- colonies, Massachusetts, witchcraft, trials
- Author:
- Marshburn, Joseph H.
- Title:
- Murder & Witchcraft in England, 1550-1640, As Recounted in Pamphlets, Ballads, Broadsides, & Plays
- Publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in a somewhat worn and chipped dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-73717
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- Pickering, David & Andrew
- Title:
- Witch Hunt, The Persecution of Witches in England
- Publisher:
- Amberly Publishing, Stroud, 2013.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn illustrated wraps, a trifle worn, else a very good copy; 224 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77536
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- Black, George F.
- Title:
- A Calendar of Cases of Witchcraft in Scotland 1510-1727
- Publisher:
- Arno Press, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40283
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- bankruptcy, SCOTLAND, witchcraft
- Author:
- Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy
- Title:
- Jasmin's Witch
- Publisher:
- George Braziller, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41186
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- FRANCE, witchcraft
- Author:
- Rosenthal, Bernard
- Title:
- Salem Story, Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed wraps; 286 pages
- Book No.:
- W-59640
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 17TH CENTURY, trials, witchcraft
- Author:
- Ewen, C. L'Estrange (ed.)
- Title:
- Witch Hunting and Witch Trials, The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizes held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736
- Publisher:
- Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1971.
- Description:
- The first of many books which Ewen was to write on witchcraft, subsequently described as an "outstanding work based on original documents", providing not quite 800 abstracts of the indictments; prefaced by a substantial (115 page) introduction
- Condition:
- The facsimile reissue of the original 1929 edition
- Book No.:
- W-59850
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials
- Author:
- Collier, Jane Fishburne
- Title:
- Law and Social Change in Zinacantan
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1973.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-68279
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- MEXICO, primitives, witchcraft
- Author:
- Hill, Frances
- Title:
- A Delusion of Satan, The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
- Publisher:
- Doubleday, New York, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Bound galleys; 248 pages
- Book No.:
- W-58040
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, trials
- Author:
- Gibson, Marion (ed.)
- Title:
- Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2003.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed sewn illustrated wraps, a very good copy; 270 pages
- Book No.:
- W-75832
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- Parsons, Coleman O.
- Title:
- Witchcraft and Demonology in Scott's Fiction, With Chapters on the Supernatural in Scottish Literature
- Publisher:
- Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48128
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, SCOTLAND, Law and Literature, witchcraft
- Author:
- Title:
- Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century
- Publisher:
- Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, London, 1916.
- Description:
- Original cloth backed boards, worn, the spine rubbed, but a sound copy
- Condition:
- Original 1/4 cloth, quite rubbed and marked; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-59636
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- humor, witchcraft
- Author:
- Kieckhefer, Richard
- Title:
- European Witch Trials, Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500
- Publisher:
- Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40911
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- Hoff, Joan and Marian Yeates
- Title:
- The Cooper's Wife Is Missing, The Trials of Bridget Cleary
- Publisher:
- Basic Books, Inc., New York, 2000.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-69325
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- trials, criminal law, IRELAND, witchcraft
- Author:
- Seth, Ronald
- Title:
- In the Name of the Devil
- Publisher:
- Walker and Company, New York, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-65800
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- infants, witchcraft, SCOTLAND, trials
- Author:
- Seth, Ronald
- Title:
- Children Against Witches
- Publisher:
- Robert Hale, London, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50140
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- infants, witchcraft
- Author:
- Hall, David D.
- Title:
- Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England
- Publisher:
- Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1991.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42825
- Price:
- $ 14.95
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- MacDonnell, John
- Title:
- Historical Trials. Edited by R.W. Lee, [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, 1928.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-54646
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, trials
- Author:
- Burr, George Lincoln
- Title:
- Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-18916
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- witchcraft
- Author:
- Karlsen, Carol F.
- Title:
- The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Publisher:
- W.W. Norton, New York, 1987.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-48466
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- witchcraft, New England, colonies
- Author:
- Fox, Sanford J.
- Title:
- Science and Justice; The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials
- Publisher:
- Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-17805
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Massachusetts, witchcraft, 17TH CENTURY, trials
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