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A Treatise Proving SPIRITS, WITCHES, And Supernatural Operations, By Pregnant Instances And Evidences: Together with other things worthy of note.
Author: Casaubon, Meric  
Publisher: Brabazon Aylmer, London: 1672., 8vo. A-X8. (16), 316,(3)p.
This book is in remarkably good condition. It was rebound sometime in the 19th century in 3/4 leather & marble with marble endpapers.
Text is illustrated with beautiful head-pieces and decorated initials. Interior is complete and clean. The binding is tight.

Casaubon (1599-1671) 

classical scholar and writer in defense of the belief in witchcraft. In 1669 "John Wagstaffe, 
a master in arts of Oriel College, Oxford, held that belief in witchcraft was of heathen origin and fomented by priests against private persons who imitated their rights. 

Casaubon took it upon himself to refute Wagstaffe and argue the case for belief in it showing that "..
...other facts or beliefs were just as strange and occult, such as monsters, natural sympathies and antipathies, 
occult qualities, celestial influence, chemical remedies...the wonders of natural and artificial magic, astronomical clocks, 
mathematical paradoxes, etc." 

 Casaubon also edited John Dee's magical diaries.

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