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Devil:

(german american) . DAS HERZ DES MENSCHEN EIN TEMPEL GOTTES ODER EINE WERKSTATTE DES SATANS. IN SEHN FIGUREN SINNBILDLICH BARGESTELLT CHRISTICHEN SINNES.
Reading 1822 Nach der Funsten verbesserten augsburger auflage 1815, Heinrich B. Sage. In German. Small octavo, 48pp., 10 full page engraved plates, 1/2 leather and paper-covered boards. Fair, quite worn, some toning and staining throughout text, spine half chipped away. (a77774)
$195.00 (theology) . THE RISE AND FALL OR, THE ORIGIN OF MORAL EVIL
NY 1866 1st Hurd and Houghton. In three Parts: Part I. The Suggestions of Reason; Part II. The Disclosures of Revelation; Part III. The Confirmations of Theology. Sm.8vo., 311pp., hardcover. Portion of original Institution card holder inside rear cover. Institution bookplate inside front cover (marked discarded). Small paper square on lower spine end with Institution numbers. VG. Very scarce. (a45860)
$100.00 Andreyev, Leonid . SATAN'S DIARY
NY 1920 First edition (thus) Boni and Liveright. Authorized translation. Preface by Herman Bernstein.Hardcover. Octavo, 263pp., blue cloth. Good, slightly browned, spine ends worn with one half-inch chip at one end, corners worn. Very Scarce. (a69651)
$145.00 Bekker, Balthasar . DIE BEZUBERTE WELT: ODER EINE GRUNDLICHE UNTERSUCHUNG DES ALLGEMEINEN ABERGLAUBENS, BETREFFEND, DIE ARTH UND DAR VERMOGEN, GEWIT UND WIRCKUNG DES SATANS AND UND DER GEISTER UBER DEN MENSCHEN UND WAS DIESE DURCH DIESELBEN KRAFFT UND GEMEINSCHAFT THUN: SO AUS NATURLICHER VERNUNFFT UND H SCHRIFRT IN 4 BUCHERN
Amsterdam 1693 Daniel von Dahlen bey der Borse. Argues against possibility of witchcraft and superstition and in favor of Descartes and empirical, scientific reasoning. In German. 4to., 40pp., 136pp. (actually 144pp.), 270pp., (2), 17pp., (actually 19pp.), (3), 308pp., (3), Extra illustrated with fine engraved frontis portrait of Bekker tipped in, full leather. Ink notes on rear end papers. Near Good, cover quite worn, two big chips from leather on spine; text lightly evenly browned. Mounted spine label gone. (a66621)
$1100.00 Ewell, Alice Maud . WHITE GUARD TO SATAN (ORIGINAL WORK, NOT A MODERN REPRINT)
Boston 1900 Houghton, Mifflin. Being an account of mine own adventures and observation in that time of the trouble in Virginia now called Bacon's Rebellion which same did take place in the year of grace 1676. Octavo, 187pp., dark grey cloth. Good, lower edge of rear board has shallow inch long chip. (a12391)
$65.00 Frazer, J. G. . SCAPEGOAT
London 1935 Macmillan. The Golden Bough Part IV. On the transfer of evil to animate and inanimate objects. Green cloth octavo with gilt decoration on front board. 453pp., index, hardcover. Near Fine, no DJ. (a77248)
$59.00 Ingersoll, Robert G . THE DEVIL! A LECTURE
New york 1899 Farrell. Small octavo, 66pp., 24pp. (ads), pictorial (red devil with outspred wing) wraps. VG, cover a bit soiled and lightly worn, spined frayed. (a67947)
$125.00 Langton, Edward . ESSENTIALS OF DEMONOLOGY, A STUDY OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE , ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
London 1949 1st Epworth. Octavo, 234pp., frontis illustration of Babylonian Devil statue, illustrations, red cloth hardcover. VG plus, slight wear, no DJ. Scarce. (a67996)
$300.00 McGinn, Bernard . ANTI-CHRIST 2000 YEARS OF HUMAN FASCINATION WITH EVIL
San Francisco 1994-lst Harper. Fine in fine DJ. 369p. Index. Illus. (a10118)
$25.00 Niles, Blair . CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN CONVICT
NY 1928 Fourth Printing. 8vo., 376pp., frontis, cloth. VG, no DJ., (a32213)
$25.00 Rudwin, Maximilien . ROMANTISME ET SATANISME
Paris 1927. In French. Lg.8vo., 31pp., original printed wraps. Inscribed and signed by Rudwin on the half title page. Good, small chip at lower front corner, light wear. (a56372)
$50.00 Russell, Jeffrey Burton . THE DEVIL, PERCEPTIONS OF EVIL FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
Ithaca 1977 1st Cornell. Author Director of Medieval Institute and Prof. of Medieval Studies at University of Notre Dame. 8vo., 276pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. (a38190)
$28.00 Russell, Jeffrey Burton . THE DEVIL, PRECEPTIONS OF EVIL FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
Ithaca 1977 1st Cornell. 8vo., 276pp., index, cloth. Fine in VG DJ. (a1507)
$35.00 Seymour, St. John D. . IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY
Baltimore 1913 1st American, Norman, Remington. Octavo, 256pp., original gilt printed maroon cloth hardcover. VG, light cover wear, corners bumped, very light spine end wear. (a67991)
$150.00 Todie, Eugen . HIRDAUL LUI SATAN ROMAN
Bucuresti 1923 (?) Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta. In Rumanian. Small octavo, original bright orange and yellow wraps with black lettering. Good, leaves browned (not brittle). (a66744)
$125.00