1677 1ed Display of Supposed Witchcraft Webster Glanvill WITCHES Demons Occult

1677 1^ed Display of Supposed Witchcraft Webster Glanvill WITCHES Demons Occult

 

John Webster was a 17^th-century English controversial author who is best-remembered for his works on witchcraft and astrology. The 1677 first edition of his book ‘Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft’ was Webster’s attempt to put an end to the ‘witchcraft debate’ between himself and Joseph Glanvill. This debate was easily the most extensive debate over witchcraft in England during this era.

 

Webster, an occultist, curiously fought to completely abolish witchcraft and all of its branches from England entirely and used natural phenomena as the basis for unexplained occurrences. Glanvill vehemently defended witchcraft and the existence of powerful witches and demons.

 

This example of the 1677 first edition of Webster’s attack on Glanvill is considerably valuable and rare!

 

Item number: #19238

Price: $3950

 

WEBSTER, John

 

The displaying of supposed witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like

 

London : printed by J.M. and are to be sold by the booksellers in London, 1677. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 346, [4]
• References: Wing W1230; Jobe, ‘The Devil in Restoration Science’
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~12in X 7.75in (30.5cm x 20cm)
• Exceedingly rare and desirable with auction records at price comparisons at over $5,500+

 

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