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Lives of the Necromancers. Or, An Account Of The Most Eminent Persons In Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed For Themselves, Or To Whom Has Been Imputed By Others, The Exercise Of Magical Power. by William Godwin - 1834
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Lives of the Necromancers. Or, An Account Of The Most Eminent Persons In Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed For Themselves, Or To Whom Has Been Imputed By Others, The Exercise Of Magical Power.
by William Godwin
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London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834. 19th Century Fine Binding, Signed (stamped) Root & Son. Thick Half Leather/Cloth boards show light age, light extremity wear, with both joints and hinges in Fine condition. Top Edge Gilt (t.e.g.), Marbled Endpapers. Square, sewn binding Extremely tight. Foxing to ends, otherwise internally Fine, clean and Unmarked.. First Edition. Leather/Cloth Boards/Sewn/Teg. Very Good+/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - 9" tall.
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- Edition First Edition
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- Publisher Frederick J. Mason
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1834
- Keywords Occult, Occultism, Witchcraft, Alchemy, Religion, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Eastern Religion, Magic, Magick, Ceremonial Magic, Demonology, Black Magic, Religious Psychology, Religious Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Occult Personalities, Grimoire
- Size 8vo - 9" tall
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Lives of the Necromancers, Or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power.
by William Godwin
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Lives of the Necromancers. or, an Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, who have Claimed for Themselves, Or to Whom has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power.
by GODWIN, William
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First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xx + 466pp (+ iipp publisher's adverts). Very Good+. A rare copy in the original cloth boards of this fascinating work by a man better known for being the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and the father of Mary Shelley. Housed in a matching custom slipcase with chemise wrapper. An intelligent, skeptical account of witchcraft and the occult throughout history - far broader than the modern definition of Necromancy would allow. The chapters are divided into the following sections: Introduction; Ambitious Nature of Man; Examples of Necromancy and Witchcraft from the Bible; Greece; Rome; Revolution Produced in the History of Necromancy and Witchcraft upon the Establishment of Christianity; History of Necromancy in the East; Dark Ages of Europe; Communication of Europe and the Saracens; Revival of Letters; Sanguinary Proceedings against Witchcraft; Conclusion. The work includes one of the more important early nineteenth century biographical studies of Dee, of whom…
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