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A treatise proving spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances and evidences : together with other things worthy of note / by Meric Casaubon ...

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.
Contributor:
Aylmer, Brabazon, -1707?
Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Of credulity and incredulity in things natural, civil, and divine
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.
Witchcraft.
Penn Provenance:
Cole, William, 1693 (autograph)
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
Merivale, I.H. (autograph)
Physical Description:
16 unnumbered pages, 316 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Other Title:
Of credulity and incredulity, in things natural, and civil
Fingerprint:
hehe adst ern- sewh (3) 1672 (A)
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for Brabazon Aylmer ..., 1672.
Notes:
First published under title: Of credulity and incredulity in things natural, civil and divine. London, 1668. Cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogue.
Title within ruled border.
Additions: p. 316-p. [4] at end.
Erratas: prelim. p. [14] and p. [4] at end.
Imprimatur: prelim. p. [4].
Signatures: A-X⁸.
Local Notes:
Lea Library copy bound in half leather atop marbled paper; the title and author are printed in gold on the spine.
Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1876, of Henry Charles Lea.
Lea Library copy has the autograph of I.H. Merivale above Lea's on front free end paper.
Lea Library copy has the autograph of William Cole, dated November 30, 1693, upside-down on page following title leaf.
Lea Library copy has a few marginal ms. marks in pencil and ink throughout.
Cited in:
Wing (2nd ed.), 815
OCLC:
31731352

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