WITCHCRAFT OF NEW ENGLAND EXPLAINED BY MODERN SPIRITUALISM - 1888 WITCH TRIALS

WITCHCRAFT OF NEW ENGLAND EXPLAINED BY MODERN SPIRITUALISM Book Details + Condition: Colby and Rich (Boston). Early edition, 1888. Hardcover. 482 pages. Original brown cloth boards with gilt title (etc) to spine. Topics include: Margaret Jones (First executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1648); Ann Hibbons; Tituba; Salem Witchcraft; The Confessions; The Motives; Accusing Girls; The Prosecutors; Witchcraft's Author; Methods of Providence; and much more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding (despite cracked interior hinges); rubbed corners, edges and spine ends; light wear to boards, with some areas of discoloration; interior is clean and free of markings.