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3. Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym, De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarum et artium liber, : lectu plane jucundus et elegans. Cum adjecto indice capitum. Accedunt duo ejusdem auctoris libelli; quorum unus est de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, ejusdemque supra virilem eminentia; alter de matrimonio seu conjugio, lectu etiam jucundissimi.

9. The Cheats and Illusions of Romish Priests and Exorcists. Discovered in the History of the Devils of London: Begin an Account of the Pretended Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and of the Condemnation and Punishment of Urban Grandier a parson of the same Town.

10. The Certainty of the World of the Spirits. Fully evinced by the unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts, Operations, Voices, andc. Proving the Immortality of Souls, the Malice and Misery of the Devils, and the Damned, and the Blessedness of the Justified. Written for the Conviction of Sadduces and Infidels.

11. The world bewitch'd, or, An examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power, administration and operations, as also the effects men are able to produce by their communication : divided into IV parts / by Balthazar Bekker ... ; vol. I translated from a French copy, approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand.

13. Lvcerna Inqvisitorvm Haereticae Pravitatis R. P. F. Bernardi Comensis, Ordinis Prædicatorum: Et eiusdem Tractatus De strigibus, Cum annotationibus Francisci Pegnae sacræ theologiæ et iuris vtriusque doctoris. Additi svnt in hac impressione dvo Tractatus Ioannis Gersoni, vnus de Protestatione circa materiam fidei, alter de Signis pertinacia bæreticæ prauitatis

15. A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle; Occasion'd by his reading Books treating of Magick, the Black-Art, Daemoniacks, Conjurers, Witches, Hobgoblins, Incubus's, Succubus's and the Diabolical-Sabbath; of Elves, Fairies, Wanton Spirits, Genius's, Spectres and Ghosts; of Dreams, the Philosopher's-Stone, Judicial Astrology, Horoscopes, Talismans, Lucky and Unlucky Days, Eclipses, Comets, and all sorts of Apparitions, Divinations, Charms, Enchantments and other Superstitious Practices. With Notes containing a multitude of Quotations out of those Books, which have either Caused such Extravagant Imaginations, or may serve to Cure them. Written originally in French, by the Abbot B--; and now translated into English

16. Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft; Containing, I. The Most Authentick and best attested Relations of Magicians, Sorcerers, Witches, Apparitions, Spectres, Ghosts, Daemons, and other preternatural Appearances. II. A Collection of several very scarce and valuable Tryals of Witches, particularly that famous one, of the Witches of Warboyse. III. An Account of the first Rise of Magicians and Witches; shewing the Contracts they make with the Devil, and what Methods they take to accomplish their Infernal Designs. IV. A full Confutation of all the Arguments that have ever been produced against the Belief of Apparitions, Witches, and c. with a Judgment concerning Spirits, by the late Learned Mr. John Locke. Volume I.

17. Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster : being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed.

18. Doctor Lamb revived, or, Witchcraft condemn'd in Anne Bodenham : a servant of his, who was arraigned and executed the lent assizes last at Salisbury, before the right honourable the Lord Chief Baron Wild, judge of the assise : wherein is set forth her strange and wonderful diabolical usage of a maid, servant to Mr. Goddard, as also her attempt against his daughters, but by providence delivered : being necessary for all good Christians to read, as a caveat to look to themselves, that they be not seduced by such inticements.

19. Of credulity and incredulity in things divine and spiritual: wherein (among other things) a true and faithful account is given of the Platonick philosophy, as it hath reference to Christianity : as also the business of witches and witchcraft, against a late writer, fully argued and disputed.

23. The Infallible True and Assured Witch; or, The Second Edition of the Tryall of Witch-Craft Shewing the Right and True Methode of the Discoverie. With a Confutation of Erroneous Waies. Carefully Reviewed and more Fully cleared and Augmented

25. A True and Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits: Tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most States and Kingdomes in the world. His private Conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other Princes about it. The Particulars of his Cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors Court; by the Popes intervention: his banishment, and restoration in part. As also the letters of Sundry Great Men and Princes (some whereof were present at some of these Conferences and Apparitions of Spirits:) to the Said D. Dee. Out of the original copy, written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in to library of Sir Tho. Cotton. With a Preface confirming the Reality (as to the Point of Spirits) of This Relation: and shewing the several good Uses that a Sober Christian may make of All. By Meric Causaubon, D. D.

27. Les Controverses et Recherches Magiqves de Martin Del Rio P. et Doct. de la Compagnie de Iesus. Divisees en Six Livres, Ausquels sont exactement et doctement confutees les Sciences Curieuses, les Vanitez, et Superstitions de toute la Magie. Avecqves la Maniere de Proceder en Iustice contre les Magiciens et Sorciers, accommodee à l'instruction des Confesseurs. Oevvre Vtile et Necessaire à tous Theologiens, Iuris consultes, Medecins, et Philosophes. Traduit et abregé du Latin par Andre' dv Chesne, Tourangeau.

28. The examination, confession, triall, and execution, of Joane Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott : who were executed at Feversham in Kent, for being witches, on Munday the 29 of September, 1645 : being a true copy of their evill lives and wicked deeds, taken by the Major of Feversham and jurors for the said inquest : with the examination and confession of Elizabeth Harris, not yet executed : all attested under the hand of Robert Greenstreet, major of Feversham.

29. Directorivm Inqvisitorvm R. P. F. Nicolai Eymerici, Ord. Præd. S. Theol. Mag. Inquisitoris hæreticæ prauitatis in Regnis Regis Aragonum, Denvo Ex Collatione Plvrivm, exemplarium emendatum, et accessione multarum literarum, Apostolicarum, officio Sanctæ Inquisitionis deseruientium, locupletatum, Cvm Scholiis Sev Annotationibvs eruditissimis D. Francisci Pegnæ Hispani, S. Theologiæ et Iuris Vtriusque Doctoris. Accessit rerum et verborum multiplex et copiosissimus Index. Cum Priulegio, et Superiorum approbatione.

30. Witchcraft Cast out from the Religious Seed and Israel of God. And the Black Art, Or, Nicromancery Inchantments, Sorcerers, Wizards, lying Divination, Conjuration, and Witchcraft, discovered, with the Ground, fruits, and effects thereof: as it is proved to be acted in the Mistery of Iniquity, by the power of darkness, and witnessed against by Scripture, and declared against also, From, and By them that the world scornfully calleth Quakers. Shewing, the danger thereof, that it may be avoided, by all that fear God, as they will answer it in the Great and Terrible day of the Lord, for he is utterly against those abominations and wicked practises, and those that hold them up, are upholders of the Devil's Kingdome, therefore a warning to you all for going to wizards for Counsell, for you go from God, to the Devill, that go to take Counsell of a wizard.... Also, some things to clear the truth from Reproaches, lies and slanders, and false accusations, occasioned by Daniel Bott and his slander-carriers, which Daniel is a member to the water baptized people, of which accusations cast upon the truth by him and his slander-carriers, truth hath cleared it self and cast out the slanders and false accusations, amongst them from whence they came, there they do remain, one truth stands clear as by the farther do appear: read and understand. Written in Warwickshire, the ninth moneth, 1654. As a Judgement upon Witchcraft, and a deniall, testimony and declaration against Witchcraft, from those that the world reproachfully calleth Quakers

33. A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers : by which men are and haue been greatly deluded, the antiquitie of them, their diuers sorts and names : with an answer vnto diuers friuolous reasons which some doe make to prooue that the deuils did not make those aperations in any bodily shape. Imprinted at London : for Toby Cooke, 1587

34. Saducismus Triumphatus: OR, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. The First treating of their Possibility; The Second of their Real Existence. The Third Edition. The Advantages whereof above the former, the Reader may understand out of Dr H. More's Account prefixed thereunto. With two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish Witches; done into English by Anth, Norneck, D.D.

36. An historical essay concerning witchcraft : with observations upon matters of fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred scriptures, and confute the vulgar errors about that point : and also two sermons: one in proof of the Christian religion; the other concerning good and evil angels / by Francis Hutchinson, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty, and minister of St. James's Parish in St. Edmund's-Bury.

38. Mallevs Maleficarvm in Tres Divisvs Partes, In quibus Concurrentia ad maleficia, Maleficiorum effectus, Remedia aduersus maleficia, Et modus deniq; procedendi, ac puniendi Maleficos abundè continentur, præcipuè autem omnibus Inquisitoribus, et diuini verbi Concionatoribus vtilis, ac necessarius. Auctore Iacobo Sprengero Ordinis Prædicatorum, olim Inquisitore. His nunc primùm adiecimus, M. Bernhardi Basin opusculum de artibus magicis, ac Magorum, maleficijs. Item. D. Vlrici Molitoris Constantiensis, de Lamijs et Pythonicis mulieribus Dialogum. Item. D. Ioannis de Gerson. Olim Cancellarij Parisi[Illegible word], de probatione Spirituum, libellum. Item. D. Thomæ Murner ordinis Minorum, libellum, de Pythonico contractu. Omnia

39. Tableav de l'Inconstance des Mavvais Anges et Demons. Ov il est amplement traicté des Sorciers, et de la Sorcellerie. Livre tres-vtile et necessaire non seulement aux Iuges, mais à tous ceux qui viuent sous les loix Chrestiennes. Auec vn Discours contenant la Procedure faite par les Inquisiteurs d'Espagne et de Nauarre, à 53. Magiciens, Apostats, Iuifs et Sorciers, en la ville de Logrogne en Castille, le 9. Nouembre 1610. En laquelle on voit combien l'exercice de la Iustice en France, est plus iuridiquement traicté, et auec de plus belles formes qu'en tous autres Empires, Royaumes, Republiques et Estats. Par Pierre de Lancre, Conseiller du Roy au Parlement de Bordeaux. Maleficos non patieris viuere. Exod. 22. Reueu, corrigé, et

40. The Lawes against Witches, and Conjuration. And Some brief Notes and Observations for the Discovery of Witches. Being very useful for these Times, wherein the Devil reignes and prevailes over the foules of poor Creatures, in drawing them to that crying Sin of Witchcraft. Also, The Confession of Mother Lakeland, who was arraigned and condemned for a Witch, at Ipswich in Suffolke

43. The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knaverie of conjurors, the impietie of inchanters, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent falsehood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practises of Pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the begger lie art of Alcumystrie, The abomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magicke, and all the conveiances of legierdemaine and juggling are deciphered: and many other things opened, which have long been hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be known.

44. Demoniality Or Incubi And Succubi A Treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and a soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus-Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation. Published from the original Latin manuscript discovered in London in the year 1872, and translated into French by Isidore Liseux Now first translated into English With the Latin Text

45. A Debate Proposed in the Temple Patrick Society, And Fully Discussed By The Members, Whether Witches, Wizards, Magicians, Sorcerers, and c. Had Supernatural Powers, And by Means of Intercourse with, or Assistance from invisible supernatural Agents, Had Knowledge of, and could Foretel future Events, With Power over the Inhabitants of this World, Or to perform Actions beyond the Power of human Nature.

46. Der neü Layenspiegel von rechtmässigen ordnungen in Burgerlichen vnd peinlichn Regimenten. Mit Additon. Auch der guldin Bulla / Königklich reformaton landfriden. auch bewärung gemainer rech vn anderm antzaigen. Qum priuilegio - neqs audeat hoc opus intra tempus determinatum impumere sub pena in copromulganda.

47. A Detection of That Sinnfvl, Shamfvl, Lying, and Ridicvlovs Discovrs, of Samvel Harshnet. Entitvled: A Discoverie of the Frawdvlent Practises of Iohn Darrell. Wherein is Manifestly and Apparantly Shewed in the Eyes of the World. Not only the vnlikelihoode, but the flate impossibilitie of the pretended counterfayting of William Somers, Thomas Darling, Kath. Wright, and Mary Couper, togeather with the other 7. in Lancashire, and the supposed teaching of them by the saide Iohn Darrell.

49. A detection of damnable driftes, practized by three vvitches arraigned at Chelmifforde in Essex, at the laste assises there holden, whiche were executed in Aprill. 1579 : set forthe to discouer the ambushementes of Sathan, whereby he would surprise vs lulled in securitie, and hardened with contempte of Gods vengeance threatened for our offences.

50. A Declaration of The Ground of Error and Errors, Blasphemy, Blasphemers, and Blasphemies; and the ground of Inchantings and seducing Spirits, and the Doctrine of Devils, the Sons of Sorcerers, and the Seed of the Adulterer, and the Ground of Nicromancy, which doth defile Witches and Wizards. How this is all from the spirit of God in the transgression of it, and all them that draw from the Spirit of God, draw into it; and they that are lead by the spirit of God, are led from it to God, and to the knowledge of the Doctrine of Christ. By G. F.