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1. Autograph Letter Signed to The Honourable Committee. Sept. 13, 1710. Salem, Mass. The humble representation of Willm Good of the Damage Sustained by him in the year 1692...William Good's wife, Sarah, was executed as a witch July 19, 1692. Purchased from Goodspeed's catalogue #96, Jan., 1913. Item 805

2. Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Abner C. Goodell, Salem, Mass. Editor of the Massachusetts Province Laws. Part II, P to Z and Witchcraft Collection, Including Prince Society Publications, Prynne's Tracts, Rare Quaker Tracts, Salem Local History, American Historical Reprints, Book with Washington's Autograph, etc. Valuable Collection of Books Relating to Witchcraft and Demonology Comprising Apparitions, Angels, Ghosts, Demons, Dreams, Superstitions, Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft, Divination, Including Witchcraft Trials in Salem, Massachusetts, also in England and Scotland, The Rare Witchcraft Act of 1711, etc..

3. New-England Pesecutors [sic] Mauled With their own Weapons. Giving some Account of the bloody Laws made at Boston against the Kings Subjects that dissented from their way of Worship. Together with a brief Account of the Imprisonment and Tryal of Thomas Maule of Salem, for publishing a Book, entituled, Truth held forth and maintained, and c.

5. Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches. With the Observations of a Person who was upon the Place several Days when the suspected Witches were first taken into Examination. To which is added, Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men. Written at the Request of the Ministers of New-England. By Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge. Licensed and Entred according to Order.

6. The Kingdom of Darkness: or The History of Dæmons, Specters, Witches, Apparitions, Possessions, Disturbances, and other wonderful and supernatural Delusions, Mischievous Feats, and Malicious Impostures of the Devil. Containing near Fourscore memorable Relations, Forreign and Domestick, both Antient and Modern. Collected from Authentick Records, Real Attestations, Credible Evidences, and asserted by Authors of Undoubted Verity. Together with a Preface obviating the common Objections and Allegations of the Sadduces and Atheists of the Age, who deny the Being of Spirits, Witches, and c. With Pictures of several memorable Accidents. By R. B. [pseudonym] Licensed and Entred according to Order. London, Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside. 1688

8. 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

9. The History of the Inquisition. By Philip a Limborch, Professor of Divinity amongst the Remonstrants. Translated into English by Samuel Chandler. In Two Volumes. To which is prefixed, A large Introduction concerning the Rise and Progress of Persecution, and the real and pretended Causes of it.

10. Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy: Discovered in Above Three Hundred Memorable Histories, Containing I. Dreadful Judgments upon Atheists, Perjured Wretches, Blasphemers, Swearers, Cursers and Scoffers. II. The Miserable Ends of divers Magicians, Witches, Conjurers, and c. with several strange Apparitions. III. Remarkable Presages of Approaching Death, and of Appeals to Divine Justice. IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of Wretched Popes, Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors. V. Fearful Judgments upon Cruel Tyrants, Murderers, and c. with the Wonderful Discovery of Murders. VI. Admirable Deliverances from Imminent Dangers and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land. VII. Divine Goodness to Penitents, with the Dying Thoughts of several Famous Men concerning a Future State after this Life. Impartially Collected from Antient and Modern Authors, of undoubted Authority and Credit, and Imbellished with divers Curious Pictures, of several Remarkable Passages therein. By R. B. [pseudonym] Author of the History of the Wars of England, and the Remarks of London, and c.