Cover of A Treatise of Specters, or Straunge Sights, Visions, and Apparitions (London: Valentine Simmes for Matthew Lownes, 1605)

A Treatise of Specters, or Straunge Sights, Visions, and Apparitions (London: Valentine Simmes for Matthew Lownes, 1605)

Pierre Le Loyer; trans. Zachary Jones

Public domain

The 1605 English translation by Zachary Jones of Pierre Le Loyer's 'Discours des spectres', dedicated to James I, on the nature of spirits, angels, demons and souls appearing visibly to men. It exists in two states (with and without the translator's name); Boston Public Library's copy comes from the Thomas Pennant Barton collection.

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