Salem Witch Trials Book
Late last year I responded to an advert on a local ‘items for sale’ Facebook group advertising a collection of books for sale that were housed in a barn on Exmoor. I had spied a couple of volumes of The Studio in one of the images, and arranged to view the books at a convenient time. On viewing the collection, the owner passed me a small leather bound book, and I nearly fainted when I opened the cover. It was a copy of Cotton Mather’s Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England published in 1682 – a book published about the Salem Witch Trials. I advised the owner to sell the book at auction, where it sold for £4,100 in March – a few days before lockdown. The result was published in the Antiques Trade Gazette (see image above).
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