Witches and Sorcerers.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1966. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 270pp. Red cloth spine over red papered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, b&w illustrations, index. The first US edition of this work first published in the UK in 1962. A broad ranging, anecdotal survey, which comprises snapshot biographies of many of the better known, and some lesser known magicians, witches and sorcerers through history as well as short histories of related regions and periods. Chapter headings: The Pythagoreans; The Crone of Thessaly; Sages and Singers; Popes and Prelates; Virgil of Naples; Lady Alice Kyteler; Witch-Cult in Switzerland; Gilles de Raiz; Cornelius Agrippa; The Treasure-Seekers; The Doctor and the Spirit; Doctor Dee and Edward Kelly; Cellini and the Spirits; The Amazing Life of Faust; Mother Samwell: Witch; Hartley, the Kissing Magician; The Sorcerers of the Pyrenees; The Spanish Inquisition; Gaufridi and the Nuns; The Hags of Pendle Forest; Confessions of a Sorcerer; The Possessed Nuns; Astrologer Royal; The Wizard of the Tyrol; Isobel Gowdie and the Secret Cult; The Albanian Wizard; Exploits of the Witch-Finder General; The Devil and King James; The Demon of Tedworth; The Witches of Sweden; Witches of America; The Witch of Walkern; The Count of Cagliostro; Francis Barrett; Magicians Today. Hint of darkening to spine, owner's name in ink on front blank with some offset to opposite pastedown - otherwise a clean, sharp clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket very slightly chafed and creased at spine ends and edges, clipped. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #66942
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