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Tue, Jul 24, 2018 03:10AM EDT
Lot 28

The Discoverie of Witchcraft.

Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000

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Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. London: Printed for A. Clark, and are to be Sold by Dixy Page at the Turk?s-Head in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange, 1665. Third edition. Modern quarter leather, banded spine lettered gilt, marbled sides, new endpapers. Woodcuts. 4to (10 x 6 ??). Nine leaves, p. 1?292 , 6 leaves, second title, 1?72, 1 leaf. Remargining to title and several succeeding leaves, margins ragged and brittle throughout, especially to lower right, with chipping and tears, some leaves reinforced with tape, scattering of losses to printed marginalia; intermittent dark stains and rust marks, old inscription to terminal blank verso. Toole Stott 620.