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Libra Esoterica

A collection of modern relations of matter of fact, concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people

To which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God, in preserving us from the malice and power of evil angels

by Edward Stephens, Berman Le Roy Edgar & Matthew Hale

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

No more published? On spine: Justice Hale, Concerning witches. - London 1693 Wing Ex libris (armorial bookplate): Berman Le Roy Edgar MB (R-B) copy is extra-illustrated: See page facing title

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “witches” in the title, “witches” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • Witchcraft· via Internet Archive
    • Witchcraft· via Open Library
    • Witchcraft· in title
    • witches· in title
    • witches· in description
    • Witchcraft· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “Angels” in the subtitle and “Angels” in the edition subtitle.

    • Angels· in subtitle
    • Angels· in edition subtitle

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 2 editions; 1 cataloged here.

To which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God, in preserving us from the malice and power of evil angels

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1693London. : Printed for John Harris ...; Printed for John Harris ...EnglishPublic

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15739000W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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