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Hercules, CA: Three Hands Press, 2013. Limited to 1200 copies only. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Translated, with an introduction, by Fredrik Eytzinger. Amid the great genres of European magical books are the Scandinavian Svartkonstböcker, or 'Books of Black Arts', the privately kept practical manuals of magic used by rural charmers and practitioners of folk magic. Incorporating charms, prayers, and curses, as well as medicine, alchemy and physical experiments. Eytzinger's work consists of two such volumes, originally handwritten in the early eighteenth century, and named "The Red Book" and "The Black Book". Invoking a variety of spiritual powers ranging from Christ to Beelzebub, its magical formulae, numbering in excess of 450 individual receipts, serve as a testament to the endurance of sorcery in the early modern era. First published in Swedish in 1918, this volume is the first English translation, and includes a substantive essay by the… Read More

Hercules, CA: Three Hands Press, 2013. First edition. Hardbound in fine condition in fine dust jacket.. 275 pages.