Occult. [Des Niau] & Goldsmid (Edmund, FRHS, FSA, transl...

Occult. [Des Niau] & Goldsmid (Edmund, FRHS, FSA, translator & editor), [Collectanea Adamantæa - XXI], The History of the Devils of Loudin, The Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the Trial and Execution of Urbain Grandier, three volume set bound as one, first edition thus, one of 275 small paper copies, Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1887-88, retaining each of the three volumes' half-titles and titles, first and last leaves with institutional library stamps, first volume's divisional title also stamped, verso of titles with MS numbering, early-mid 20th c red morocco over boards, lettered in gilt, pastedown and ffep with library labels and markings, uncut, 8vo Rare tracts chronicling the purported demonic possession, sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass hysteria that occurred in the small town of Loudun in 17th-century France.

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