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Title: Demonologia ; Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed; Being an Exposé of Ancient and Modern Superstitions, Credulity, Fanaticism, Enthusiasm, & Imposture; As connected with the Doctrine, Caballa...The Whole Unfolding Many Singular Phenomena In The Page Of Nature. Author: Forsyth, J. S. Place: London Publisher: Printed For A.K. Newman and Co. Date: 1831 Description: xvi, 438 pp. Engraved fold out frontispiece. (12mo) 19.5x10 cm (7½x4½"), original printed boards backed with cloth, paper spine label; housed in custom cloth chemise, cloth and leather slipcase with spine lettered in gilt. Scarce volume, "Being an Exposé of Ancient and Modern Superstitions..." Includes sections on "Amulets, Apparitions, Astrology, Charms, Demonology, Devils, Divination, Dreams, Deuteroscopia, Effluvia, Fatalism, Fate, Friars, Ghosts, Gipsies, Hell, Hypocrites, Incantations, Inquisitions, Jugglers, Legends, Magic, Magicians, Miracles, Monks, Nymphs, Oracles, Physiognomy, Purgatory, Predestination, Predictions, Quackery, Relics, Saints, Second Sight, Signs Before Death, Sorcery, Spirits, Salamanders, Spells, Talismans, Traditions, Trials, &c. Witches, Witchcraft, &c., &c." Lot Amendments Condition: Some scuffing to slipcase; wear, rubbing, and some staining to boards; hinges reinforced with cloth, notes in ink on front pastedown, ownership signature and chop stamps on front free endpaper, top corner of half-title clipped, foxing and some creasing to frontispiece, occasional offsetting from laid in ephemera, a bit of underlining and marginalia in pencil; overall very good. Item number: 299107