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A discourse on witchcraft. Occasioned by a bill now depending in Parliament, to repeal the statute made in the first year of the reign of King James I, intituled An act against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits

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  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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47 pages ; (8vo) Signatures: A², B-F⁴, G²

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “Demonology” and “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Demonology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Demonology”· via Open Library
    • “demonology”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Demonology”· in subject

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47 pages ; (8vo)

1736London : Printed for J. Read ..., and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-shops of London and Westminster; Printed for J. Read ..., and sold by the booksellers and pamphlet-shops of London and WestminsterEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome 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: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Scanner: ttscribe3.euston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL17905437W
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